Patsel

libelants signed shipping articles before the United States commissioner at the port of San Francisco to serve as seamen on board of the American schooner Roy Somers from the port of San Francisco to Koggiung, Alaska, and such other Alaskan points as the master' might direct, and return to San Francisco for final discharge, either direct or via one or more ports on the Pacific Coast, for a term not exceeding nine calendar months. It was agreed that the crew would load and discharge all cargoes and ballast, if required, and work on shore or in boats, as the master or agent of the charterer should direct, subject to the agreement attached to the shipping articles. In the agreement: attached to the shipping articles were stipulations relating to the employment of the crew as fishermen in certain waters in Alaska. The wages of the crew were fixed in the shipping articles by specified sums — some by the run, and some by the month. A scale of provisions and substitutes, as required by section 4612 of the Revised Statutes (Comp. St. 1913, § 8392) to be allowed and served out to each of the crew during the voyage, was contained in the shipping articles. There was also a provision that the…