The Kate Tremaine

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is a proceeding in rem to enforce a lien for wharfage against the canal-boat Kate Tremaine. It is admitted that the vessel in question was employed in transporting freight between the cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Albany, in the state of New York, and Jersey City, in the state of New Jersey. That, in the course of such employment, she was moored at the libellant’s wharf, on the Brooklyn side of the East river, and there discharged cargo, whereby the libellant became entitled to the wharf-age now sought to be recovered. It is also admitted that the vessel was…