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Hylton, Plaintiff in Error, versus the United States U.S. 171 (1796)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0061 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPI.EME COURT of the United $tates: 1796. February Term, 1796. (N the 4th of February, a commifion, bearing date the . 27th of January, 1796, was read, appointing SAMUEL CHASE, one of the juffices of the Supreme Court. O N the 8th of March, a commiflion, bearing date the 4th of March, 1796, was read, appointing 'OLIVER ELLSE- WORTH, CHIEF JUSTICE. HYLTON, Plaintiff in Error, verfus the UNITED STATES. r-jHIS was a writ of Error direted to the Circuit Court Tfor the Diftrif of V/irginia; and upon the return of the record, the following proceedings appeared. An adtion of debt had been inftituted to May Term, 1795, by the attorney of the diflrrid, in the name of the United States, againft Da- niel I-ylton, to recover the penalty impofed by the'a& of Con- grefs, of the 5th of June, 1794, for not entering, and paying the duty un, a number of carriages, for the conveyance of per- fons, which he kept for his own ufe. The defendant pleaded nil debet,' whereupon iffue was joined. But the parties, wa- ving the right of trial by jury, mutually fubmitted the contro- verfy to the court on a cafe, which flated That the Defend- ant, on the 5th of June, 1794, and therefrom to the laft day of September following, owned, poffeffed, and kept, 125 chariots for the conveyance of perfons, and no more : that the chariots were kept exclufively for the Defendant's own private ufe, and not to let out to hire, or for the conveyance of perfons for hirs

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