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![handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0156 and id is 1 raw text is: OF THE UNITED STATES.
1824.
The St. JgOe
[INsTANCE COURT. SLAVE TRADz ACTS. LIEN OF MATnIUAL do Cuba.
BIZ~q.]
The ST. JAGO DE CUBA. VNIENTE. and others
Claimants.
A question of fact, under the Slave Trade Acts. Condemntion pro-
nounced.
The claim of seamen, for wages, on a voyage, undertaken-in viola-
tieanof the Slave Trade Acts, out of the proceeds of the forfeited
vessel in the registry, rejected.
The claims of seamen, for wages, and of material m en, for supplieos
where the parties were innocent of all knowledge of, or participation
in, the illegal voyage, preferred to- the claim of forfeiture on the
part of the government.
Material men have a lien, which may be enforced by a proceeding in
the Admi.arty, in rem, for necessaries or supplies, furnished in a
port to which the vessel does not belong.
APPEAL from the Ciicuit Court of klarland.
This cause was argued by the Atto m -Gen- Feb. mi.
'ral for the appellants, and by Mr. Winzd~r for the
respondents and claimants.
Mr.-Justice JoHNsoN delivered the opinion of maatmh
the. Court.
This vessel, with her lading, found on board at
the time of seizure, were libelled for an infraction
of the laws prohibiting the African slave trade,
The causes.of forfeiture alleged in the libels,
comprise all those contained in the 1st section of
the act of 1794, -and those of the 2d section of the
act'of 1818 with the exception. of the offence of
beihgiadn for the prohibited trade.
VOL.IX. 62
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