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Brigantine Amiable Lucy v. The United States, The U.S. 330 (1810)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0017 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT U. S. RACHEL MDartin and P B. Key, for the claimants, prayed T-, U. S. the court to direct that the proceeds should be paid , over to the claimants. But the court said that it was a matter to be left to the consideration of the court below. This co'ut will only make a general order for restitution of the property condemed. THE BRIGANTINE AMIABLE LUCY v. TH& UNITED STATES, ,'4e act ,,r01. ERROR to the district court of the United States, ress of the for the district of Orleans, to reverse the sentence of Sth of Febru ., 180s, to. that. court which condemned the brigantine Lucy, for revent, the importing a slave from the West Indies, contrary to nportation of I DrWIn persons the act of congress of the 28th of February, 1803, vol. ,to certain 6. p. 212. entitled An act to prevent the importation ates. iwhere, of certain persons into certaiiz states, where, by the v the lawS iercenf. their laws thereof, their admission is prohibitedi by th-e first lImission *is section of which it is enacted, that no master of a yes- rohibiied, iS otn f)ree in Sel, or any other person, shall import or bring, or te territory cause to be imported or brought; any negro, mulatto., f. Orleans. or other person of colour, not being a native, a ctizen, or registered seaman of the United States, or seamep, natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hpe, into any port or place of tme United States, whzch port or place shall be sz!uated m any state which by law ha.yprohibried, or shall brohibit, the admission or zmporla. tion of such negro, &c. And by the second section it is enacted, ,that if any such negro or mulatto, or other perso of colour, .shall be landed from on board any ship or vessel, in any of the ports or places aforesaid, or, on the coast of any state prohibdting the admission or importation as aforesaid, the said ship or vessel, &c. shall be for- feited to the United States. By the seventh section of the act of M-arch 26, 1804,

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