Reward (Selkrig)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 10 March 1818 |
| Date | 10 March 1818 |
| Court | High Court of Admiralty |
English Reports Citation: 165 E.R. 1482
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY
Referred to, In re Dawson Pattisson v. Bathurst, [1915] 1 Ch 630.
[265] '"reward"-(Selkng) March 10, 1818-Condemnation for breach of revenue laws by exportation of logwood from Jamaica, though described and used as dunnage [Referred to, In, re Dawson, Patttsi on v Bathur^t, [1'JloJ 1 Ch 630 ] (Instance Court ) This was the case of a British ship, of the burden of 162 tons, the piopeity of Wentworth Bailey of the island of Jamaica, who, in December 1815, shipped at Port Royal in Jamaica about ten tons of St. Domingo logwood, and twelve tons of Jamaica logwood, with which the vessel sailed on the 14th of that month for Annotto Bay in Jamaica, where she arrived on the 16th, landed a boat full of the logwood, and shipped forty-three hogsheads and three tierces of sugar, and one hundred and eleven puncheons of rum, with which she again sailed from Annotto Bay on the 31st of December, and arrived the day following at Kingston The sugar and ruin were then landed ; but the market proving unfavourable, the whole of the sugar and twenty-nine puncheons of the [266] rum were reshipped, the logwood remaining all the time on board. On the 15th of January 1816, the ship sailed from Port Royal with a clearance for Norfolk in the United States of America, the clearance containing 2bods.mi. the "reward" 148? no mention of the logwood. On the same day she was seized by His Majesty's brig " .Emulous," T. W. Carter, Esq., commander, and brought back to Port Royal, where the ship and logwood were proceeded against in the Vice-Admiralty Court, for a bleach of the revenue laws (particularly of the Statutes 12 Car. 2, 7 & 8 Win. 3, 6 Geo. 3, and 28 Geo. 3), by exporting Jamaica logwood to the United States. The owner at Jamaica gave in a claim alleging that no breach of the revenue laws was contemplated in the exportation of the logwood , that this article was originally put on board at Kingston, as ballast for the voyage to Annotto Bay , that the claimant had given orders, that the logwood should be there landed, and that in fact, a large boat load was so landed, which he believed to have been the Jamaica logwood, as that was the last shipped ; but the weather being bad, and time pressing, the master was unable to land more, and employed the remainder as dunnage, for the purpose of stowing the sugar and rum ; for which purpose it was also kept on board at the time of the reshipment at Kingston, and not being considered as...
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