The William M. Hoag

These cases differ from those already disposed of ante, 437, only in the fact that the libels contain claims by the masters of those vessels,with an averment that during the time they ivere employed there was an officer known as the purser; that the agents of the receiver and the purser collected and received, all the earnings from the vessels from both passengers and freight, and paid over such earnings in the ordinary course of business to the receiver; that none of the earnings of the vessels passed through the hands of the masters, and that their sole duties consisted in navigating the…