The Ann
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] (Jn admiralty. The brigantine' Ann was. seized by the collector of the port of New-buryport, and libelled in the district court, for that said brig, on the 12th day of January, 180S. departed from said port and from the-limits and jurisdiction of the United States, and proceeded on a foreign voyage, to wit, to the island of Jamaica, in the West Indies, contrary to the act of the 9th of…
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] (Jn admiralty. The brigantine' Ann was. seized by the collector of the port of New-buryport, and libelled in the district court, for that said brig, on the 12th day of January, 180S. departed from said port and from the-limits and jurisdiction of the United States, and proceeded on a foreign voyage, to wit, to the island of Jamaica, in the West Indies, contrary to the act of the 9th of January, 1808, c. 8, [2 Stat. 453.] It appeared that the Ann sailed from Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, with a…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
As the Ann arrived off Newburyport, and within three miles-of the shore, it is clear that she was within the acknowledged jurisdiction of the United: States. All the writers upon public law agree-that every nation has exclusive jurisdiction-to the distance of a cannon shot, or marine-league, over the waters adjacent to its shores,, (Bynk. Qu. Pub. Juris. 61; 1 Azuni, [Mar. Law,] 204, § 15; Id. p. 185, § 4:) and this doctrine has been recognized by the supreme court of the United States. [Church v. Hub-bart,] 2 Craneh, [6 U. S.] 187, 231. Indeed *927such waters are…
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