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The question as to the right of this court to grant amendments, in cases of libels, or informations, in rem, for violations of *997municipal laws, brought by appeal from the district court to this court, has been argued several times, as a question of general importance, and the court will now deliver its opinion.

By the judiciary act of 1789, c. 20, § 32, [1 Stat. 91,] it is enacted, that all the courts of the United States, may, at any time, permit either of the parties “to amend any defect in the process or pleadings, upon such conditions, as the said courts respectively shall, in their…