MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
Persons other than a shipping commissioner are in certain cases forbidden to perform or attempt to perform the duties usually required of such an officer, as prescribed by the acts of Congress.
Atwood, the respondent, as the information charges, was the master of the brig "Grace Lothrop;" that he, on the 18th of December, 1873, as such master, did knowingly receive and accept to be shipped on board of...
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