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 EENNEDT V. STEAMEB SABUATIAN. 911 �Decree for libellant in suit against the Sylvan Glen, with oosts, and a reference to compute the damages. �Libel against the Maguire Brothers dismissed, with costs. ���Kbnnbdt and others r. Sxeaheb Sabmatian. [Oirouit Court, D. Mcuryland. June 10, 1880.) �Bteambh AMD SAiLma Vebsbi,— Showino Lighted Toboh— Rbt. Bt. i 4234. — Section 4234 of the Reviaed titatutes, enacting that erery sailing vessel " shall, on the approach of any steam-vessel during the night, show a lighted torch upon the point or quarter to whioh the ste m-ves- sel ghall be approaching," is sufflciently broad to require such light to be exhibited to a steamer coming up astern. �LooKouT — Rbv. St. } 4234. — The rule oontemplatea the keeping of a suf- flcient watch over the stern to enable the vessel to perform her duty as to the lights, and if the situation is such that one lookout is not enough there must be more. �Bbitish Yessbi. — Kbv. St. } 4234. — The rule can be invoked in defence of a British steamer colliding with a United States vessel, while both are in the water of the United States and upon pilot ground. �CoiiLisioN — Negligence — Showing Tobch-Light. — It is negligence in a schooner, under the general rules of the sea, not to show a torch-light, or do something else calculated to give notice of her dangerous proz- imity to an approaching steam-vesseL �Bame — Steam- Vessel — Rate of Spebd. — ^A steam-vessel is not bound to filacken her rate of speed until there is apparent danger, and has a right to presume that every vessel approached will give such notice as tha local usages of the place, or the general rules of the sea, require. �FoREiGN Vessel — Local Usages — Pilot. — Local usages growing out of the observance of acts of congress are binding upon foreign vessela, and pilots are employed not only to keep such vegsels on their proper course, but also to enable them to understand the local usages governing ths navigation of the waters in which they are sailing. �In Admiralty. �PACTS FOUND BT THE OOUBT. �1. A collision occurred between the American schooner Newell B. Hawes, owned by the libellants, and the British steamer Sarmatian, at about 5 :45 in the morning of Novem« ber 29, 1878, in the waters of Chesapeake bay, five miles or ����