SWAN, Circuit Judge.
On the evening of February 21, 1930, the Coast Guard destroyer Trippe seized the British vessel Isabel H, her cargo of intoxicating liquor, and the motorlaunch Mohawk, to which a small part of the cargo had been transferred. The place of seizure was south of Amagansett, L. I., and the court found, as alleged in the amended libels, that it was within four leagues of the coast and within an hour's sailing distance from the coast by the contact boat...
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