The Coniscliff

ERVIN, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by Ernest Anderson, seeking to recover $88 as wages for services rendered as mate on said schooner. There is no dispute about the fact that he was employed to serve as mate, and that he did serve in that capacity, and that the amount claimed was owing to him for such services.

The vessel sets up in the answer, however, that Anderson is a citizen Of Sweden, who has filed his declaration of intention to become an American citizen, but has not yet been declared such; that after he was employed, and entered upon the service as made, he contracted a…