“This is an appeal from a decree of the district court. The appellee filed in that court five several petitions, claiming a right to one fourth of the proceeds of the sales of the sloop Boxer, the sloop Tonkin, ten hogsheads of rum, and two barrels of oil, three hogsheads of rum, and the penalty of the coasting license bond of the Tonkin; which sloops, rum, and oil, had been seized, condemned, and sold, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, in pursuance, as the petitions allege, of information given to the collector by the petitioner, and the proceeds paid into the hands of the clerk of the court; and which penalty had been recovered in pursuance of like information, and the amount collected by the marshal and paid info court. The petitions were separately applicable to these four separate forfeitures and the penalty, and prayed to be paid out of each fund one fourth of the same, after the costs and charges were deducted.”