Tilley v. Farrow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of debt, to recover the penalty of fifty dollars given by the statute of 1796, c. 85, entitled “ An Act in addition to an Act entitled an Act for regulating pilotage in the several ports in this commonwealth, and for otherwise regulating the pilot-age of the port of Boston.”
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This was an action of debt, to recover the penalty of fifty dollars given by the statute of 1796, c. 85, entitled “ An Act in addition to an Act entitled an Act for regulating pilotage in the several ports in this commonwealth, and for otherwise regulating the pilot-age of the port of Boston.” The action was submitted to the determination of the Court upon the following facts agreed by the parties:— The defendant, on the 28th of July, 1815, was master of the brig (Economy, of Boston, then lying in the harbor of Boston, ready for sea, and drawing more than ten feet of water, and not being a…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The question submitted to us by the statement of facts agreed by the parties in this case is, whether the vessel mentioned therein, at the time when the penalty is supposed to have been incurred, should be considered a coasting vessel, within the meaning of the terms used in the exception in the section of the statute giving the penalty. All vessels drawing nine feet of water, or more, are within the express provisions of the statute, except coasters and fishing vessels. The vessel in this case was registered, but was bound from the port of Boston to Alexandria, from whence she was destined…
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