The Jeanette

CALL, District Judge.

This eause comes on to he heard upon a motion to dismiss the libel filed herein against the steamship Jeanette. It is asked on the argument that the motion to dismiss be treated as exceptions.

The libel shows that the vessel was seized by United States officials for violation of the immigration and customs laws on her arrival in the harbor of Tampa, and has since remained in the custody of such officials; that the master and crew were arrested at that time and detained in the Hillsborough county jail, until their trial and acquittal of the criminal charge; that while so…