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Reports of Admiralty and Revenue Cases
Argued and Determined in the
Circuit and District Courts of the United States,
for the Western Lake and River Districts
by Henry B. Brown,
District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan.
Vol. 1.

     [13]

                                THE SULTANA
                               February, 1857
                    Seaman's Wages. - Clerk of a Steamboat.

     The clerk of a steamboat is a mariner, and entitled to a lien for
     wages.

        LIBEL for wages.  Libellant was hired and served during the autumn
     of 1856 as clerk of the SULTANA, and claimed a lien for wages.

        WILKINS, J.  The clerk of a steamboat is a mariner, within the
     meaning of the law conferring a lien for wages.  (Curtis on Merchant
     Seamen, p. 5, and notes; The PRINCE GEORGE, 3 Hagg. 376; 2 Bouv. Law
     Dic. p. 405; Mills v. Long, referred to in 2 Dod. 105; Wilson v. The
     OHIO, Gilpin, 505; Flanders on Mar. Law, 354; Ross v. Walker, 2
     Wilson, 264; Trainer v. Superior, Gilpin, 514.)
                                Decree for libellant.