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Edward - Scott, Claimant, The U.S. 261 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0004 and id is 1 raw text is: OF THE UNITED STATES. preceding; and in the Mary Ford, decided at the 1816. same term with that of the Grand Sachem. The The subject has frequently, since that term, been sub- eward. mitted to the consideration of this court, and the decision has uniformly been, that it is a question ex- clusively proper for the courts of the capturino power. Sentence affirmed. (INSTANCE COJRT.) Th Edwad.-ScOTT, Clamant. In revenue, or'instance causes, the circuit court may,. upon appeal, allow the introduction of a new allegation into the information, by way of amendment. Under the 3d section of the act of congress, of the 28th of June, 1809, every vessel bound to a foreign permi~ted port, was obliged to give a bond, with condition not to proceed to any port.wjth which com- mercial intercourse was not permitled, nor to trade with such port. Where the evidence is sufficient to show a breach of the law, but the information is not sufficiently certain to authorize a decree, the supreme court will remand the cause to the circuit court, with di- rections to all6w the information to be amended. APPEAL from the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts. The offence charged in the infor- •mation filed in this case, in t!le district court of Mas- sachusetts, is, that the ship Edward, on the 12th day- of February 1810, departed from the port of Sa. 2961

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