Phile v. the Ship Anna
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an information filed by the Naval Officer of the port of Philadelphia, against the ship Anna, lately arrived from Bristol, upon the discovery of Peter Cooper, that forty-two hampers of porter, part of her cargo, had been landed, without being duly entered at the collector’s office, conformable to a law of this state, passed the 15th day of March 1787 (P. L. 241), which enacts, among other things, “That every vessel or boat, from which any goods, wares or merchandise…
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This was an information filed by the Naval Officer of the port of Philadelphia, against the ship Anna, lately arrived from Bristol, upon the discovery of Peter Cooper, that forty-two hampers of porter, part of her cargo, had been landed, without being duly entered at the collector’s office, conformable to a law of this state, passed the 15th day of March 1787 (P. L. 241), which enacts, among other things, “That every vessel or boat, from which any goods, wares or merchandise shall be unladed, before due entry thereof, at the office of the collector of the port of Philadelphia, and every…
1Opinion of the Court
The President delivered the following charge to the jury :
Shippen, President.
This is an information exhibited against the ship Anna, as being a vessel from which forty-two hampers of porter were unladen, without a previous entry at the collector’s office. The evidence on the part of the informants proceeds from several witnesses, one of whom discovered the drays going from Clifford’s alley, and pursued them to Smith’s, where the porter was lodged. Two porters have proved the unlad-ing and the seizure ; and by the manifest, it appears, that only twenty hampers were entered, though forty-two…
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