The Island Queen

EWING, District Judge.

The libelant having obtained a decree in this case, the owner of the defendant vessel thereupon went to the clerk's office and offered bail for stay of execution in accordance with tire provisions of the act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania of June 16, 1836 (P. E. 762), § 4, claiming the right to do so by virtue of the provisions of section 988 of the Revised Statutes of the United States [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 708]. The bail was not accepted, but, in order to raise the question after the tender thereof was made, the libelant came into court and obtained a rule…