Indictment for making a false declaration as to the employ­ment of a vessel in the cod fisheries, contrary to the act of Congress of the 29th of July, 1813, ch. 34, §§ 7 and 9. The indictment in describing the agreement and certificate requir­ed to be sworn to, by the seventh section of the act, and in respect to which, the false declaration was averred to be made, stated that the defendant produced to the collector, “a certain paper, purporting to be a written account of the length, breadth and depth of the said boat or vessel, in sub­stance and effect as follows, that is to say, that the boat Fame, of Ipswich, was of the burthen of fourteen tons and 45-95ths of a ton, that she was employed in the bank and other cod fisheries, &c. &c.”