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Case No. 14,628.
    UNITED STATES v. BOWEN.
    [2 Cranch. C. C. 133.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1817.
    Lahceny — Goons and Chattels — Banknotes.
    Banknotes are not goods and chattels, nor I money, and stealing them is no offence at common law.
    [Cited in U. S. v. Carnot, Case No. 14,726.]
    Indictment, at common law [against Henry Bowen, a negro], for stealing a banknote. Verdict, guilty.
   Judgmentarrested;

THE COURT

(THRUS-TON, • Circuit Judge, absent)

being of opinion that it was no offence at common law to steal a banknote.