Declaring that there had been a precedent in a similar case, the owners of the Yih Sheng Piece Goods Store, House No. 54, Lane No. 195, Tientsin Road, applied on Thursday to the First Special District Court for, the return of 272 boxes of sill valued at approximately $20,000, which were seized by the police on November 125 on behalf of the Maritime Customs for alleged contravention of Customs preventive laws. The applicants said they were prepared to furnish secur-lly when the seized goods were returned to them. The precedent mentioned by the applicants concerned quantity of Jewels belonging to the Ping Ching Jewellery Store, which were also seized for the Customs on Isuspicion of evading import duty and which were returned to the jewellery store on security, pending the settle-iment of question of Jurisdiction.
The request for the return of the of the preventive laws and that silk was different in nature from jewels. Furthermore, the representative said, it would take some time to complete the examination of the applicants' Jeccount books. The seized silk constituted but about one-fourth of the whole stock at the applicants' store, was pointed out.
The Judge eventually ordered an Jadjournment of the hearing without Jeranting the application for the return of the seized silk,
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