1. Admiralty — Jurisdiction—Maritime Contracts— Passenger Contracts Binding Vessel.

A corporation of Washington contracted with a dock company to bring 600 Japanese laborers from Honolulu to Seattle on respondent steamship, owned by a steamship company, for which the corporation was to pay a stated sum per head for carriage. A Japanese agent of the dock company in Honolulu advertised for laborers and contracted with libelants and others to transport them to Seattle, collecting from them a part of the passage money agreed upon, and taking their notes for the balance. A representative of the steamship company went to Honolulu and there received from the agent a portion of the passage money, and issued tickets for carriage to Victoria, B. C., the vessel being of Canadian register and not entitled to carry passengers from there to any United States port. Libelants being unable to read the tickets, which were in English, did not know that they were not to be taken to Seattle until after they had gone on board, but on learning such fact left the vessel, and libeled her for breach of the contracts. Held, on evidence showing that the arrangement between the dock company and the steamship company was not a charter but a joint enterprise in the profits of which each was to share, and that' the Japanese agent who made the contracts also represented the owner of the vessel, that the contracts were maritime and gave a right of action in admiralty against the ship.

[Ed. Note. — Admiralty jurisdiction as to matters of contract, see notes to The Richard Winslow, 18 C. C. A. 347; Board of Com’rs v. Howard, 27 C. C. A 530.]

2. Oaebiers — Damages—Breach op Contract op Carriage — Suit by Passenger.

Libelants were not entitled to recover damages for loss of time after breach of the contracts and while waiting for the trial of the ease.

3. Admiralty — Costs—Docket Eee in Consolidated Cases.

Where libels against a vessel are similar in character and are consolidated for trial, but one docket fee is taxable for the libelants.

[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 1, Admiralty, §§ 851, 853.]