This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...the impression, which Russell, the American charge d'affaires, encouraged, that the suspension of the Non-intercourse Act must take place under its own provisions, as soon as this British revocation was known. This exportation had even been allowed to go on for six weeks after the news of the declaration of war had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...the impression, which Russell, the American charge d'affaires, encouraged, that the suspension of the Non-intercourse Act must take place under its own provisions, as soon as this British revocation was known. This exportation had even been allowed to go on for six weeks after the news of the declaration of war had reached England. All these goods, to the invoice value of more than eighteen millions, and worth, perhaps, twice as much in the American market, had been seized on their arrival, as forfeit under the Nonimportation Act. But some of the district judges, upon their own construction of the law, persisted, contrary to the wishes of the government, in giving up these goods to the claimants, on their filing bonds for the estimated REMISSION OF FORFEITURES. 387 value, generally taken at the invoice cost or less; and, Chapter to give the Democratic merchants and districts an equal chance, the government finally ordered the like releases 1813. every where. By the non-importation law, half the forfeiture belonged to the informer. The government's share of the bonds, should they be enforced, would thus be reduced to nine millions. Should the bonds be canceled, more than half that amount would still accrue in the shape of duties. The importers were indeed liable, under the strict letter of the law, to an additional forfeiture of thrice the value of the goods; but to have attempted to enforce that, under the circumstances of the case, would have been quite too monstrous. The importers claimed, indeed, to have acted on a fair presumption of the cessation of the non-importation, and with the encouragement of the American envoy, and in thus getting their property home, to have taken a course not less beneficial to the country than to themselves. Gallatin's plan ...
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