“This was an action of debt brought in the district court against the defendant, master of the Placidia, a foreign vessel, to recover the penalty of $500, under, the fifty-seventh section of the duty law, 1 Story’s Laws, 624, for an alleged disagreement between the cargo on board and that reported in the manifest; there being found concealed on board twenty kegs of white lead more than were mentioned in the manifest. The jury found a verdict stating. that, upon the arrival of the vessel at this port, there were on board forty kegs of white lead, whereas only twenty kegs were reported in the manifest. That the twenty, so reported, were landed under permits, and the twenty not reported remained on board, and were discovered by the custom house officers, after the rest of the cargo was landed, were seized by them, and condemned as forfeited by the district court; and that no part of the cargo of said vessel was unshipped, landed, or unladen, after they were taken on board, except as was specified in the report, or manifest, and pursuant to permits regularly obtained. Upon this verdict the district court gave judgment for the defendant.”