“On the 19th day of July, in the year 1813, Joseph Kauman, John I. Labouisse, and Nicholas M. Delonguemare, entered, into a bond to the United States in the penalty of four thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars, reciting the seizure and libel of certain articles of merchandise in the District Court for the District of New-York; and that the goods in question in this case had, by consent of parties, been appraised at two thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and concluding with a condition, that the bond should be void if the obligors or either of them should pay into the District Court the said sum of two thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars, in case the said goods should, by sentence and decree of the District Court, be adjudged to be forfeited or condemned to the use of the United States, within twenty, days after the sentence and decree should be pronounced. With some other stipulations in case of acquittal, not necessary here to be noticed.”