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Title: Speake and Others v. the United States
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 10, 1815
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 67 KB

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Absent. TODD, J. ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, in an action of debt for 8787 dollars upon a bond dated 14th April, 1808, taken by the collector of the port of Georgetown, with condition to be void if the brig Active 'should not proceed to any foreign port or place, and the cargo should be re-landed in some port of the United States.' The bond was executed by Speake, the master of the vessel, and by Beverly and Ober the owners of the cargo, in compliance with the 1st section of the act of congress of the 9th of January, 1808, entitled 'an act supplementary to the act, entitled an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States.' Vol. 9, p. 10.