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This document is a bill of exceptions from a court case between John and Solomon Caswell, merchants, and Cornelius Lawrence, the collector of the port of New York. The Caswells paid duties under protest on brandy importations where the actual quantities gauged were less than the invoice quantities. They argued duties should be based on actual quantities after a 2% allowance for leakage, per a 1799 law. The court agreed and found for the Caswells. Lawrence appealed, arguing the 1799 law did not apply to ad v

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