The Rathlin Head

FOSTER, District Judge.

These four cases present identically the same questions and were argued together. The facts are undisputed.

It appears that on February 18, 1920, the libelant, hereafter for convenience called the Dock Board, adopted a schedule of charges providing that all seagoing vessels docking in the port of New Orleans should pay, for the use of the wharves, wharfage of four cents a gross ton for the first day, three cents each for the second and third days, two cents for the fourth day, one cent each for the fifth and sixth days, no charge for the seventh to the sixteenth days,…