MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court as follows:
The first question to be discussed is, the propriety of allowing farther proof. It is certainly a general rule in prize causes that the decision should be prompt; and should be made, unless some good reason for departing from it exist, on the papers and testimony afforded by the captured vessel, or which can be invoked from the papers of other vessels in possession of the court. This rule ought to be...
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