Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-07
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District Court of the =. s.

District Court of the US.
In and for the District OF Columbia, April 4,
The United States
against
Three casks ofre6nedaump and loaf sugars.
Case of SECURE ind Libel.
tits ordered that the fourth Saturday 10
this month be, and The same is appointed
for the trial of the said Libel at the Court.
house in the town of Alexandria. in he DIS.
trict OF Columbia aforesaid. aid that the sub.
starce of the said libel filed against the said
three casks of refined loaf and lump sugars,
togetherw his order. be published Tor l4l
days betort the day hereby appointed lorI
the trial OF the SAID Libel in some newspaper
publishes in the town of Alexandra, anil
be also posted up in the most public manuel
for the space Of fourteen days before lhI
said day of trial, at the court house IN lkI
said town, and also at the cofee-house nl
the said town.
! The said Libel charges in substance thai
on the 18th day of December, in the yea
1919. at the port Of Alexandria aforesaid,
three cask,, containing refined lump ana
loaf sugar. and brown sugar, were imported
into the u. States, TO wit: into the DISTRICT
and port of Alexandra aforesaid, from a TO-
reign place, by sea, to wit: from the Island
$of Curacao, in certain vessel and brgan'l
tine called the Cumberland CT Alexandria
and it is further understood that the said re,
fined lump and loaf sugars were so imported
as aforesaid in vessel Of less burthen thsa
one hundred and twenty tons, to wit: IN ls
said brigantine called the Cumberland
Alexsndra-the said brigantine being then
and there vessel ofone hundred and eleven
and twenty ninety -6tths ions burthen, and 90
nore--and that the said refined lump ana
loaf sugars were so imported in casks, con-
tanning less than six hundred pound weIgn
each and moreover that the said three CASKS
containing all the sugars aforesaid, as wen
the said refined lump and loaf sugars, as sns
said brown sugars, after being so importer
and brought in the said vessel from the 10
reign port aforesaid. to wit: on the said lou
day Of Dec. in the year aforesaid, at i -
port of Alexandra in the District aioresau'
were unladen and delivered from the salu
vessel--not in open day, that is to say, De.
tween the rising and the setting OF the sun
but in the night time, without any spec'@
license from the Col hector Of the said pora,
and moreover, that all the said sugars IN ns
the three casks aforesaid, SO being importer
and brought to the said port as atoresai ~
were there on the same day last atoresalu,,
unladen and delivered from the said vessetf
without any permit from the Collector o.
said port for such unIading or delivery,
their not being then or there, or at 'pli
time before or since. any naval officer ~
the said port. and without being IN any
manner authorised by any officer or offce,
OF The Customs to unlade the same, agaln:s
the form and effect of the act OF Congress u
such case provided. u
And further. that by Of the prem
ses, or of some. or one the same, and by u.
force and effect Of the said act of CongIIe.ss.,
all the said three casks Of sugars as well sos
said refined lump and loaf sugars, as the s a..
brown sugars, have become forfeited to ".
United States: and being so forfeited wes
afterwards, 10 wit Jon the 18th day OF Janusff
}ry, in the yearI89O, at the port and town"
Alexandra, in the District aforesaid, 10 - :
certain out house there situate on land d ~,
seized as forfeited, by Thomson Mason -;
then and there being collector OF the sew
f Tesie EDM s. LEE, .
Clerk of the District Court {"
april the District of Alexandr's