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 814 FEDERAL REPORTER. �temporary repairs as were necessary to enable her to reach her port of destination, to-wit, the port of Providence, and discharge her cargo, which she did about the twenty-ninth day of December, 1879, and now lies in said last named port; and that the owners of said schooner Mary Weaver have and will'sustain damages in consequence of said collision to the amount of $1,200. �Fifth. That the owners of said schooner Onmst are unknown to your libellants, and that her master and the vessel have "not been seen by any of your libellants since she so sailed away; but they are informed and believe said schooner Onmst and her said master have just arrived, and now are in eaid port of Providence, and they so aver, and within the jurisdiction of this honorable court. �Sixth. That ail and singular the premises are true, and within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and of this honorable court. �ALLEGATIONS IN THE ANSWER, �First. That said respondent is ignorant of the matters contained in the first and fifth articles of said libel ; and as to the matters contained in the second, third and fourth he bas no personal knowledge, but understands that the same are in great part falsely alleged, and that the truth is as here- inafter alleged. �Second. That the said schooner Onmst, being in good order, and well equipped and manned, was, on the night of the sev- enteenth day of December, 1879, between the hours of 11 and 12 p. M., sailing up Long Island sound, and about three miles east of Saybrook, with a strong breeze blowing from between N. W. and N. N. W., said schooner sailing close hauled on the starboard tack, with her port and starboard lights set and burning brightly, as required by law, with a competent man at the wheel, and the mate forward on the forecastle deck, on the lopkout; that the red light of a vessel, which after- wards proved to be the Mary Weaver, was descried between one and two miles off, and about one point on the port bow; that after an interval of a few minutes — the Onmst in the ����