The Cachalot III

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This cause was instituted by a petition for a warrant of detention subscribed by the Local Inspector of Customs on March 9, 1945, wherein he recites that on March 1, 1945, he seized a certain motor vessel, to-wit, The Cachalot III, bearing official British registry No. 152571; that cause to file such petition for the warrant was that he found the vessel moored at the west side of the McArthur Causeway in the City of Miami, laden with 31,631 board feet of pine lumber and 15 kegs of galvanized nails; that no export license for the exportation of said merchandise was…