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THE GENERAL PICKNEY, 9 U.S. 281 (1809)      U.S. Supreme Court
THE GENERAL PICKNEY, 9 U.S. 281 (1809)      9 U.S. 281 (Cranch)
February Term, 1809      THIS was an appeal from the sentence of
the circuit court for the district of Maryland, which condemned
the schooner General Pinkney and cargo, for breach of the act of
congress prohibiting intercourse with certain ports of the
island of St. Domingo; passed February, 28th 1806. Vol. 8, p.
11. This act was limited to one year; but by the act of February
24th, 1807, it was continued until the end of the then next
session of congress, when it expired on the 26th of April, 1808.
The schooner General Pinkney, on the 23d of August, 1806, was
cleared from Alexandria for St. Jago de Cuba with a cargo, but
went to Cape Francois in the island of St. Domingo, one