The Elwine Kreplin

■WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

By the tenth article, of the treaty made by the United States with the king of Prussia, on the 1st of May, 1828 (8 Stat 37S, 382), it is provided, that “the consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents,” — which each of the parties to the treaty is declared entitled to have in the ports of the other — “shall have the right, as such, to sit as judges and arbitrators, in such differences as may arise between the captains and crews of the vessels belonging to the nation whose interests are committed to their charge, without the interference of the local authorities. * *…