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830 FEDERAL DEPORTER. �It is urged tlikt the furnishing of these clothes may be re- garded as a mode of advaricing money to pay the wages of the cre\?;' But to thisthere are several answers: First, the suit is not brought for advances to the ship to pay wages. Secondly, the master is not shown to have been in want of money for this purpose. The contrary appears, and was known to the libellant; he was told there was freight money coming sufficient for the purpose. Thirdly, a party côUuding "with a master to cheat the seamen ont of a part of their wages, or to induce them to apply their wages in anticipation of pay- ment to any purpose not shown to be for their own good, will reçoive no relief in a court of admirai ty. Of course, after they are paid their wages they can expend the mbndy as they like ; but payment in anything else than money, though with their consent, will be most rigidly scrutinized, and must be clearly shown to be proper and equivalent to the payment of the money itself to them. �Libel dismissedj with costs. ���Kanb ». Penney and others. [District Court, S. D. New York. , 1880.) �1. DbMTTBBAQB — DeMTBBT of CoAIi BT Caiial-Boat8. �Hdd, upon the proofs, (1) that Peck's dock was not the usual place for delivery of coal by canal-boats at Haverstraw ; (2) that the con- signees did not accept the coal at Peck's dock ; (3) that the delay in getting to the place of discharge was not caused by the insufflciency of the respondent's dock, or by any obstacle they threw in the way. — [Ed. �F. A . Wilcox, for libellant. �A. B. Conger, for respondents. �Choate, D. J. This is a suit for demurrage brought by the owner'and master of a canal-boat. The canal-boat carried a cargo of coal from Hoboken to Haverstraw, under a bill of lading, by the terms of which the coal was to be delivered to these respondents, the consignees, "along-side." No other ����