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 IN EE LONG ISLAND, ETC., TBAN8P0KTATION 00. 599 �remarks of Mr. Justice Bradley, delivering the decision of the supreme court in the case of The Swain Turbine Co. v. Ladd, speaking of the expanded claims now so frequently Bought after by re-issues, would seem very pertinent to this case. 19 0. G. 62, December 13, 1880. But putting upon the ciaims of the re-issues that restricted construction neces- sary to bring them within the invention clearly and accu- rately deseribed in the drawings and specifications of the original patents, I do not find that the defendants, in using the Tillery soldering iron, construoted as shown by the exhibits in this case, have been guilty of infringing any of the exclusive rights to which the complainants bave become entitled as the assignees of either the Barker or Bostwiok inventions. �The complainants' bill must be dismissed. ���In re Petition of The Long Island Nokth Shoeb Passengek & Pbeight Tbanseobtation .Company. �(Dutrict Court,. S. D. New York. February 12, 1881.) �1. Limited Liabilitt Act — Rev. St. { 4282 e< »eq. — Vesselb Navisat- IN& East Eiver and Long Island Sound— Admibalty Jubisdic- TioN— Mabitime Law. ,, �The act limiting the liability of ship-owners, (St. 1851, «.43 ; Rev. St. 5 4282 etaeq.,) so far as it limita the liability for damages caused by the negligence of the master and crew, without the knowledge or privity of the owners, to the value of the ship and freight, upon a surrender of the same, applies to vesaels navigating the waters of the East river and Long Island sound between ports of the state of New York, and not engaged in foreign or interstate commerce. �This limitation of liability is s rule of the general maritime law, and since the passage of the act of congress it has been a part of the maritime law of the United States, or rule of the sea, to be adminis- tered by th& admiralty courts of the United States in ail cases of ves- sela navigating the waters of the United States other than those excepted by the Biatute, viz., " anycanal-boat, biirge, orlighter, orany ����