The Bowditch

WARE, District Judge.

This is a libel against' the owners of the schooner Bowditch, by the seamen for their wages. In November last, when the crew shipped, E. P. Talbot was master. He took the schooner on a verbal contract or agreement, to be employed in the coasting trade on shares; he, as master, to receive twenty dollars a month wages, and to be himself at the expense of victualling and manning, and, after deducting port charges, to pay over to the owners one-half of the net freight for the hire or charter of the vessel. The schooner sailed from Portland on the 23d of November, for…