Author: Cake, Joseph (Collector of Customs)
Title: Transmits Report of Ship Bpmbay from Liverpool Excep. Of Passengers
Description: Philadelphia: By the author, 1868. Softcover. Manuscript; 10 1/2 x 8; pp. [4]; written in brown ink on "Custom House, Philadelphia" stationary; a couple of small nicks to edges; age-toning to margins; very good condition. The report, addressed to Charles Gilpin, Esq. of the US District Attorney's Office, describes the arrival of the Ship Bombay from Liverpool, upon which various violations of current laws are discovered - there are 29 1/2 passengers, when only 13 1/2 are allowed, only 12 berths are present, with the majority of them less than 2 ft. wide and one of them less than 6 ft. long, the height of the booby hatch is 1 ft. 4 in. shorter than the one specified by law, and so on. The last paragraph of the document specifies the fines to be imposed, including $50 per head for the extra 16 passengers to the amount of $800 and $5 per head for the narrow berths for 29 1/2 passengers to the amount of $147.50 for a total of $947.50. Ill.: 0. 2.

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