JOHNSON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:
This is an appeal from a decision of the district Court of Orleans, on a libel preferred against the goods in question, under the non-intercourse acts of March 1st, 1809, and May 1st, 1810.
These goods were claimed by Robert Burnside, a citizen of Orleans, as his property, and the material questions in the cause are,
1st. Is the property American, in which case it is exempted from forfeiture...
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