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Case No. 9,082.
    The MARIA THERESA.
    District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
    July 28, 1848.
    Shipping — Illegal Seizure op Vessel bt American Consul — Lien por Wages.
    [1. Where a vessel is illegally seized by an American consul, in a foreign port, abandoned by the representative of the owners, and sent home under a master and crew shipped by the consul, she is liable to a lien for the wages of such crew, and for pilotage. See The Anne, Case No. 412.]
    [2. There is a lien created against the vessel, both for wages and for pilotage.]
    [Decided by KANE, District Judge. Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible. The above statement of the case was taken from 1 Brightly, Dig. 589, 801.]