The Mary C. Conery

Nixon, D. J.

This case turns upon the legal effect of disrating a cook and steward, and putting him before the mast as a common seaman.

The libel alleges and the answer admits—

That the libellant shipped on board the brig Mary C. Conery, at the port of Fernandina, as cook and steward, on the first day of June, 1880, at the rate of wages of $30 per month, for a voyage, not exceeding 10 months, to Rio de Grande de Natal; thence to the West Indies, and to a port in the United States, where the voyage was to terminate; that he entered upon his duties and the vessel proceeded to Natal, where she…