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ERVIN, District Judge.

The schooner and her freight was libeled by the master and crew for the wages owing to them. The owners being unable to make bond, the schooner was sold pendente lite, and her proceeds and the freight money were paid into court. There was a reference to determine the liens and, priorities, and a report by the master, in which he found that the lien claims exceeded the proceeds of both ship and freight, that the claims of the seamen were entitled to priority, and that the master had a maritime lien on the freight money, but not on' the ship, which was prior to the claims…