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Case No. 117.
    The AJAX
    [1 Adm. Rec. 431.]
    Superior Court, S. D. Florida.
    Dec. 7, 1836.
    Salvaos — Award—Partially Damaged Cargo.
    [This was a libel for salvage by Bichard Boberts and others against the cargo and materials saved from the ship Ajax, (Charles A. Hiem, claimant.) The vessel was lost on Car-rysfort Beef, off the coast of Florida. Part of the cargo was saved dry and uninjured, and part in a wet and damaged condition. The decree allows the salvors “thirty-five per centum, of the net amount. arising from such portions of said cargo as were saved dry and uninjured, and fifty per centum upon the-net amount of sales arising from that portion of said cargo which was taken from said ship in a wet, damaged, and perishing condition, and also fifty per centum upon the net amount of sales of the materials saved from said ship; to be paid to said salvors according to their respective interests therein.”]
    [Cited in Baker v. The Slobodna, 35 Fed. Rep. 542;- The John and Albert, Case No. T.o3o.]
    [Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible.]