REPORTS OF CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN

The Courts of Exchequer

AND

Exchequer Chamber.

MICHAELMAS TERM, 2 WILL. IV.

MEMORANDA.

ON the first day of this term, Henry William Tancred, Francis Ludlow Holt, Philip Williams, and Charles Butler, Esquires, having in the previous vacation been appointed King's Counsel, took their seats within the bar.

1831.

REGULA GENERALIS.

the Exchequer.

IT is ordered, that, from and after the last day of this Office hours in present term, the Exchequer Office of Pleas be kept open as follows: that is to say, during term, and one week after every term, from eleven o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and from six to nine o'clock in the evening; and at other times, from eleven o'clock in the

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morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, the usual holidays excepted, when the said office is to be closed.

(Signed)

LYNDHURST.
J. BAYLEY.
W. GARROW.

J. VAUGHAN.
W. BOLLAND.

IN THE EXCHEQUER CHAMBER (a).

tion for penal

to the payment

found that the

(In Error from the Court of Exchequer).

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. KEY and Others.

In an informa- THE information, which was for penalties, in the first ties for harbour- count, charged that the defendants did knowingly haring goods liable bour, &c., certain goods, liable to the payment of duties of duty, the Jury on the importation thereof, which had then and there been goods were im- imported and illegally unshipped, the duties thereon not ported in smug- having been first paid or secured; that is to say, 500lbs. weight of tobacco, and 400 gallons of foreign brandy and geneva, whereby &c., concluding for the penalties. There were also other counts in the information.

gling packages,

and consequent

ly were restricted from being importedHeld, that such goods were,upon the construction

of the stat.6 G.4,

c. 107, s. 128, &

and should have

At the trial, the Jury found the defendants not guilty upon all the counts but the first, and, as to that count, 6 G. 4, c. 108, found a special verdict, "that the defendants imported s. 52, prohibited, into the United Kingdom the tobacco in that count mentioned, in packages containing 28lbs. weight each and no more, which said packages were not, at the time the same were so imported, packed in any outward package containing 450lbs. weight net at the least; and that the defend

been described

as such in the information.

(a) The Court of Error sat to hear this and the two following cases, the day before Michaelmas

Term, under the stat. I W. 4, c. 70, s. 8.