United States v. Preston
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the district court for the eastern district of Louisiana. The brig Josefa Segunda, a Spanish vessel, proceeding with a cargo of negroes from the coast of Africa to the island of Cuba, was captured On the 11th day of February 1818, off St. Domingo, by a regularly commissioned Venezuelan privateer, and on the 24th of the following April she was seized in the. river Mississippi, by custom house officers of the United States, carried* to New Orleans, and there the…
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APPEAL from the district court for the eastern district of Louisiana. The brig Josefa Segunda, a Spanish vessel, proceeding with a cargo of negroes from the coast of Africa to the island of Cuba, was captured On the 11th day of February 1818, off St. Domingo, by a regularly commissioned Venezuelan privateer, and on the 24th of the following April she was seized in the. river Mississippi, by custom house officers of the United States, carried* to New Orleans, and there the vessel and negroes were libelled, at the suit of. the United States, in the district court of the United States for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
The case of the Josefa Segunda has been twice already before this court: the first time upon the question of condemnation ; the second, upon the application of several claimants to be preferred in the distribution of the proceeds.
It now comes up upon a claim to the proceeds of the sale of. the persons of colour found oh board at the time of the seizure, interposed by the law officer of the state of Louisiana.
The vessel was condemned under the sevénth section of the act of 1807, passed to abolish the slave trade. By the fourth section of the act, the state of Louisiana was empowered to pass…
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