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Samuel - Pierce and Beach, Claimants, The U.S. 9 (1816)

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not feel inclined to enlarge the exceptions to this           1io.
general rule, and, therefore, the judgment of the
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court below is affirmed.
(INSTANCE COURT.)
The Sanzel.-Pmrtd and BEACH, Claimants.
4Frosecutions under the-Non-Importation Laws are causes of admirtlty
and maritime jurisdiction, and the proceeding may be by libel'in the
admiralty.
Technical nicety is-not rejuirqd iia such proceedings; itis sufficient if
the offence be describeil in the words of the law, and so set forth
that, if the allegation be true, the case must be within the statute.
That the deponent is a seaman on board a gun-boat in a certain -iar-
hour, and Ziable to be ordered to some otherp lace, and. not to be able
to attend the court at the time of its sitting, is not a sufficient reason
for taking his dep6sition de bene esse, under the judiciary act of i789.
'Where the evidence is so contradictdry and ambiguous as to render a
decision difficult, th.e c&urt will. order further proQf- in a revenue or
instance cause.
APPEAL. from the Circuit Court for the Rhode
Island district. The brig Samuel sailed from St.
Bbartholomews, an islnud belonging 'to.his majesty
the king, of Sweden, in the month of November,
181X, with.a cargo consisting of rum, molasses; and
some other artides, and arriyed in Newport, Rhode
Island, on the 8th of the following December, where
the vessel and cargo were seized and libelled in the
'district court as being forfeited to the Unitad States,
under the act of congress prohibitng the imorta-
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