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 192 FSDEBAL BEPOBTEB. �the revenue service." 21 St. 265. Whatever authority, if any, this provision conf ers upon the secretary of the treasury to incur expenses for the purposes indicated, it does not ap- pear to authorize him to give rewards to informers ; nor does the sixth section of ihe act of June, 22, 1874, (18 St. 187,) nnder which this order of reference is asked, have any appli- cation to a case of expenses incurred hy the secretary under the act of 1880, but only to claims of informera under the act of 1874 above referred to. Petition disnaissed. ���United States v. Bain. {Circuit Court, B. Maine. September, 1880.) �1. Shippino Abticles— Description op Voyage— Rev. 8t. { 4520. — �Shipping articles, signed by a seaman at Pbiladelphia, described the voyage as " from that port to Portland, Maine ; thence to some one or more ports east, if required by the master, and back to a western port of discharge. Term not to exceed two months." Hdd, under sec- tion 4520 of the Revised Statutes, that they were sùfificiently precise and deflnite to be obligatory upon the parties. Thompson v. The Oakland, 4 Law Rep. 301. �2. CoASTWisE Vessels— Act op Junb 9, 1874, c. 260— Act op June 7, 1872, �(Shipping Commissionees' Act,) Rev. St. Titlb 53. — The act of June 9, 1874, e. 260, enacted " that none of the provisions of the act of June 7, 1872, (shipping commissioners' act,) should apply to sali or steam- vessels engaged in the coastwise trade, except the coastwise trade be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts." Held, that the ellect of this languago was to strilîe from the Revised Statutes, (title 53,) every provision therein which was taken froni the act of 1872 relative to such coastwise vessels. �8. Coastwise Voyage— SEAMAK-SHippnsro Articles. — Edd, therefore, that shipping articles for a coastwise voyage need not be signed by a seaman in the presence of a commissioner, master, consignee, or owner. �4. Samb— Samb — Desertion — Rbv. St. Titlb 53, c. 7. — Held, fwrtheir, that chapter 7, of title 53, of the Revised Statutes, concerning " oflences and punishments," was thereby rendered inapplicable to the crews of coaating vessels, and therefore that a seaman was not liable to an indictment for desertion, although legally shipped for a coastwise voyage, and bound by the articles to complete the voyage. — [Ed. �Motion for New Trial. Indictment. ����