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N an information for goods eized as Britih goods, and imported into the State of Pennylvania, the following points were reolved:

1t. That the informer be a witnes.

2d. That, although the informer releaes his right to a moiety of the goods, he cannot be a witnes; becaue he is intereted in the event; he being liable to pay the cots of the claimants, in cae a verdict is found for them.

3d. That by the Act of Aembly, the judge who tries the caue not being authorized to certify, o as to exempt the informer from the payment of cots to the claimants, he cannot certify.

4th. That where the informer called a witnes, who was contradicted by another witnes of his own, he cannot call his firt witnes to diprove what the econd has aid.

Lewis for the Claimants—Blair for the Informer. 

DEED executed by two perons, with one wax, and another ink eal, by one witnes only, and merely proved by him before a jutice, without being recorded, was offered in evidence.

It was objected, that by the Act of Aembly, 1 St. Laws. 78. a Deed mut be executed before, and be proved by, two witnees; and that even that kind of proof was not to be received, unles the party was dead, or otherwie unable to appear and acknowledge the execution