Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-10
District Court of the u. $.
Ia and for the District OF Columbia, April. 4,

District Court of the U. 5.
Ia and for the District OF Columbia, April a,
1920.
The United States
.Against
Three casks ofre6ned lump and loaf sugars.
Case of seizgre and sLa6et.
tits ordered that the fourth Saturday IN
this month be, and the same is appointed
for the trial the said Libel at the Court
. house 10 the Town Of Alexandria, in The Dis
irict OF Columbia AFORESAID. aud that the sub
starce of the said libel filed againstthe said
three casks of refined LOAF and lump sugars,
together with his order, be published tor "a
days before the day hereby appointed Tor
the trialoi the sai0 Libel in some newspaper
published in the town OF Alexandra, and
be also posted Up in the most public manner
fer be space Of fourteen days before the
said day of trial. al. the court house IN the
said town, and also al The coffee-house IN
the said town.
I The said Libel charges in substance that
the 18th day OF December, in the year
1919, at the port of Alexandria aforesaid,
three casks, containing refined lump and
loafsugar. and brown sugar, were imported
iao the u. States, 10 wit; into the Dirtrict,
and port OF Alexandra aforesaid, from TO.
reign place, by sea, TO wit: from the Island
oil Curacao. in a certain vessel and bryan
tine called the Cumberland CT Alexandra /;
aud /; is further understood that the SAID re-
fined lump aud loaf sugars were so imported
az aforesaid in vessel Of less burthen than
tile hnndred and twenty tons, TO wit: in the
said briganiine called The Cumberland OF
Asexsndria--,be said brigantine being then
and there a vessel ofone hundred and eleven
and twenty ninety 6Iths tons burthen, and no
n,ore--and thatthe said refined lump and
Loaf sugars were so imported in casks, con-
tanning less than six hundred pound weight
each ;and moreover that the said three casks
containing all The sugars aforesaid, as we'll
the said refined lunp and loaf sugars, as the
said brown sugars, after being so imported,
andbrought 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,
Nere unladen and delivered from the SAID
sessei--noii 10 open day, that is to say, be-
tween the rising and the setting OF the sun (;
but 10 the night time, without any special
lisense from toe Collector OF the said port {;
aad moreover, that all the said sugars IN the
The three casks aforesaid; SO being supported
and brought to the said port as aforesaid.
we're there Oh The same day last aforesaid,
unias.en and delivered from the said vessel
niihout any permit from the Collector OF
said port for such unIading 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 otilcers
at the Customs TO unlade the same, against
the fofn,and effect of the act of Congress in
such case provided.
And further. that by reason of the premi-
ses, or o,soHe, or one the same, and by the
force aud effeetof the said act of Congress,
all the said three casks of sugars as we'll the
ssaidrehned lump and loaf sugars, as the said
brown sugars, have become forfeited to the
United States: and being so forfeited were
afterwards, 10 wilton the nth day ofjanua-