Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-11
District Court of the u. S.

District Court of the u. S.
In aud for the District OF Columbia, April q,
1920.
The United States
against
Three casks ofreGned lump and loaf sugars.
Case of Seizure and sL,bel.
tits ordered that the fourth Saturday in
this month be, and the same is appointed
Tor the trial of the said Libel at the Court
house in the town of Alexandria. in .he Dis
irict oil Columbia aforesaid. aud that the SUBJ
stance of the said libel fled against the said
three casks ofrehned loaf and lump sugars,
together witn his order. be published for IA
days before the day hereby appointed for
the trial OF the saio Libel in some newspaper
published IN the town of Alexandria, and
be also posted up in the most public manner
ior the space Of fourteen days before the
said day of trias, al the court house in the
said town, aud also at the cotfee-house IN
the said town.
The said Libel charges in substance that
% the 18th day OF December, in the year
1919, at the port OF Alexandra aforesaid,
three casks, containing refined lump and
iaai sugar, aud brown sugar, were imported
ia'othe u. States, to wit: INTO the District,
al tDort of Alexandra aforesaid, from TO-
reign place, by sea, 70 wit; from the Island
OF Curacao, in certain vessel and brigan-
tine called the Cumberland CT Alexandra
and it is further understood that the said re-
haed lump and loaf sugars were SO imported
as aforesaid in a vessel Of less burthen than
one hundred aud twenty tons, to wit: IN the
said brigantine called the Cumberland OF
Alexsndria--the said brigantine being then
ard there vessel ofone hundred and eleven
and twenty ninety fiths tons burthen, and no
more--and that the said refined lump and
loaf sugars were so imported 10 casks, con-
flaming less than six hundred pound weight
each and moreover that the said three casks
containing all the sugars aforesaid, as well
the said refined lump and loaf sugars. as the
said brown sugars, after being SO imported,
and brought in the said vessel from the TO-
reign port aforesaid, TO wit: on the said 18th
day OF Dec. in the year aforesaid, at the
port OF Alexandra in the District aforesaid,
we're unladen and delivered from the said
yessel--not ia open day, that is to say, be-
tween the rising and the setting of the sun !;
but in the night time, without any special
license from the Collector OF the said port !;
and moreover, that all the said sugars IN the
the three casks aforesaid, SO being imported
and brought to the said port as aforesaid,
were there on the same day last aforesaid,
unladen and delivered from the said vessel
without any permit from the Collector OF
said port for such unlading or delivery
their not being then or there, or at any
time before or since, any naval officer OF
The said port. and without being in any
manner authorised by any officer or officers
ct the Customs to uniade the same, against
The torn and effect of the act of Congress in
such case provided. s
And further, that by reasonof the premi-
ses, or OF some, or one the same, and by the
lcrce and effect of the said act OF Congress,
all the said three casks of sugars as well The
sad refined lump and loaf sugars, as the said
Drown sugars, have become forfeited to the
United States: and being so forfeited were
afterwards, TO wilton the 18th day ofJanGa-