UNITED STATE&V. MINGES.
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UNITED STA.TES V. M.INGES.
(Oireuit Court, D. South Oarolina. April 21,1883.) 1. SECRETING SEAMEN DESERTING FROM FOREIGN VESSELS.
It is not an offense under section 4601, Hev. St., knowingly to ha.rbor or secrete seamen who desert from,foreign vessels.
Information against J. A. Minges for harboring and secreting for six: days two seamen belonging to the bark Dagmal, knowing them to belong thereto, in violation of section 4601, Rev. St. Demurrer because the bark Dagmal is npt all,eged to bean American vessel. The bark Dagmal is a Norwegian vessel. There is a treaty between the United States and Sweden and Norway for imprisonment and return of deserting seamen. Public Treaties, 740. John Wingate, Asst. U. S. Atty., for the United States. J. P. K. Bryan, for defendant. \ BOND, J. The demurrer in this case raises the question whether it is an offense against the United States to harbor seamen deserting from a vessel of a foreign power, The information alleges that the seamen harbored belonged to the bark Dagmal, but does not allege that the Dagmal was an American vessel. The prosecution contend that the words of section 4601, Rev: St., "any seaman belonging to any vessel," under which this information is filed, are unlimited, and apply equally to cases of desertion from domestic and foreign vessels. Upon examination of the ,statutes, however, the court is of opinion that section 4601 is to be read in connection with and is limited by the words of section 4612, which provides that in the construction of this title (" Merchant Seaman") the word "seaman" shall be taken to be one employed, etc., "on a vessel belonging to any citizen of the United States," and, the word "vessel" shall be understood to comprehend every description of "vessel to which the provisions of this title may be applicable." Surely, "Title LIlI, Merchant Seamen," Rev. St., is not applicable to foreign vessels. This conclusion is further confirmed by reference to the merchant shipping act of 1790, (from which section 4601, Rev. St., is taken,) which refers, in all its provisions, to American vessels and American seamen. The remedy which, by treaty with foreign powers, the Unitel! Stll-teB gives in cases of foreign seamen deserting from foreign vessels v.16,no.6-42
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
within the jurisdiction of the United States, is contained in section 5280, Rev. St., whereby, upon demand of the resident consul, etc., and by procedure as therein indicated, such foreign seamen are arrested and delivered, upon extradition process, to the consul, to be sent back to the dominions of such foreign power, etc. When the provisions of this statute (section 5280) are exhausted, the government of the United States has fulfilled its obligations with foreign powers under the commercial treaties providing for extradition of deserting seamen; it has not contracted in any such treaties to punish the harborer on this soil, not has it so provided in its own statutes. It is therefore ordered that the demurrer be sustained and the information dismissed.
MANNY V.OYLER.SAME V. ST. LOUIS MALLEABLE IRON SAMlll
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BRADLEY MANUF'G
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Oourt. E. D.Mi88ouri. June 4, 1883.) 1. PATENTS-RoTARY COULTERS FOR PLOWS--PFEIL PATENT,No. 4,533. At the date of the Pfeil patent and itsreissue, the mere change of form or POSItion in a collar and spindle connected with a standard from a plow-beam, the rotary motion of which was limited by a pin through a slot at one or other foot of the collar and spindle, was not a patentable deVice, whether the pin was inat the lower end of the spindle with or without a slot, or inserted through the collar and spindle with a.slot, or inserted through the spindle abo:ve or below the collar with or without lugs, or whether t,he pin was used to strike the arms of the coulter or not, and the Pfeil patents upon said devices are invalid for want of novelty. 2. 8AME-8mmMAN PATENT, No. 67. 222-INFllINGEl'vtENT;
The invention covered by the Sherman patent for au improvement in roll. mg coulters consists in a combination in which the cutting wheel is hung in a triangular frame separate from the standard, but attached thereto by means of sockets, or a socket through which the standard passes, all'll whiCh from their form allow the frame to have a lateral play. while the standard is clamped fast to the plow-beam. Held, in a suit for an alleged infringement of. said patent, that it was not infringed by a device in which the cutting blade is hung in It yoke differing from the Sherman yoke in shape, and the upper end of which is perforated so as to allow the lower end of the standard to fit inttl it, Jtnd also: differing from the Sherman patent in being provided on the under side with a peculiar projection against which a pin at the cud of the spindle strikes and regulates the vibration. . B. F. Rox, Esq., of the St. Lva.:3