United States v. THE" GRACE LOTHROP"
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This is an- information against the brig “ Grace Lothrop ” for a violation. of the act qf June 7-, 1872, 17 Staff (262), as amended by the act qi ^an. 15,1873, id. 410. The grounds of the information are, that on the 18th of December, 1873, at Bption, one Atwood, while piaster, of that .vessel, did knowingly -receive and accept, to be entered on . board, five. seamen who. had been…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This is an- information against the brig “ Grace Lothrop ” for a violation. of the act qf June 7-, 1872, 17 Staff (262), as amended by the act qi ^an. 15,1873, id. 410. The grounds of the information are, that on the 18th of December, 1873, at Bption, one Atwood, while piaster, of that .vessel, did knowingly -receive and accept, to be entered on . board, five. seamen who. had been theretofore engaged for a voyage from Boston to a port in the West Indies, by agreements in writing that had not been signed in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Persous other than a shipping commissioner are in certain' cases forbidden to perform or attempt to-perform the duti&s usually required of such an officer, as prescribed by thé acts of Congress.
Atwood, the respondent, as the information charges, was the master of. the brig' “ Grace Lothrop; ” that he,- on the 18th of December, 1873, as such master, did knowingly receive and accept to be shipped on board of the brig five seamen engaged and supplied for the purpose contrary to the act authorizing the appointment of shipping commissioners to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen, and…
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