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 for then, it is safe to say, the tow of the Morgan would have �pasBed them without hurt. �. Upon the whole case, I affiof opinion that the libel should �he dismissed, with costs. And now, February 7, 1881, upon �consideration, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the �libel in this case be dismissed,. and that the libellants paythe �costs. ���The Sohooner Edwin Post. {District OouH, D. Delaware. March 1, 1881.) �1. Admtraltt— Amendmbnts. �Amendments are allowable in admiralty, in the discretion of the court, at any time until the termination of the cause. �2. Mabiner— "Wagbs— Kbv. St. f} 4546, 4547. �The proceedings \>y a mariner to recover his wages, under the pro- visiona of sections 4546 and 4547, U. B. Rev. St., are cumulative in tlKlr oharacter, and do not interfere with his rights to recover his wages by a proceeding according to the ancient course of admiralty, as the same exiated before the passage of the act of 1790, upon which the above-named sections are founded. �3. Same— Samb— Samb. �At most, the effect of the sections above referred to is to restrala a proceeding in rem against the vessel before the expiration of 10 days af ter the wages are due. �In Admiralty. Libel for Wages, �Charles B. Lore, for libellants. �L. C. Vandegrift and E. O. Bradford, Jr., for respondent. �Bradfoed, D. J. The libellants in this, cause filed their libel against eaid vessel, etc., for wages, alleging their ship- ment for six months by the master on April 26, 1880, at the wages of $18 a month, and the ejcpiration of their terra of service undpr said contract upon October 26, 1880, and the failure of the maater to pay the wages which they had earned and which were due upon the expiration, of said contract, upon October 26, 1880, and that they had left said vessel on ��� �