The J. F. Spencer

BENEDICT, District Judge.

These are two actions against a foreign vessel, to enforce alleged liens for supplies furnished to her in this port

The circumstances under which the advances were made are not in dispute, and they are such as, according to the maritime law, create a lien upon the vessel.

The defence, in both cases, is, that the vessel has. been discharged of the lien, by reason of her subsequent condemnation and sale as unseawor'thy, and the lien thereby transferred to the proceeds of that sale.

It appears, from the evidence, that, in point of fact, the vessel was condemned and sold at…