The Mary Ann
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe District Court of Louisiana. This was an allegation of forfeiture, in the court below, against the brig Mary Ann, for a violation of the act of March 2d, 1807, c. 77, prohibiting the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January 1808. The libel contained two counts.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of Louisiana. This was an allegation of forfeiture, in the court below, against the brig Mary Ann, for a violation of the act of March 2d, 1807, c. 77, prohibiting the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January 1808. The libel contained two counts. The first alleged, that the brig Mary Ann, on the 10th of March 1818, sailing coastwise from a port of the United States, to wit, the ports of New York and Perth Amboy, *to a port or place within the jurisdiction of the same, to…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court, and after stating the case, proceeded as follows : — Several objections have been made to the libel in this case. The first is, that it alleges the brig Mary Ann to have sailed from the ports of New York and Perth Amboy, without the master’s having first made out and subscribed the duplicate manifests required by law, and without his having previously delivered the same to the collectors or surveyors of the ports of New York and Perth Amboy, whereas, the act of congress directs the manifest to be delivered to the collector or surveyor of a…
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