1. Shipping — Charter Party — Negotiation by Brokers — “Bought and Sold Notes. ”

Where the agents of a foreign ship, acting as brokers, negotiate an agreement, which, being communicated through their Liverpool house to the owner, results in the execution of a charter which is signed by the Liverpool house on behalf of the charterer, and thereupon the agents, to avoid complications from the necessary lapse of time before the charterer can inspect the instrument, notify him in writing of its terms, requesting confirmation, and at the same time send a similar notification to the owners, this is substantially a transaction by “bought and sold notes;” and where the charterer, by letter to the agent; confirms the terms stated,» these two communications become complete evidence of the terms of the contract, and parol evidence is not admissible.

A Same — Duty of Brokers.

If the agents, in their letter of notification, fail to particularly state a provision of the charter, which they have reason to believe will be objectionable to the charterer, merely including it in the expression “all other usual conditions,” this, if a breach of duty at all, is a personal matter between them and the charterer, and does not relieve the latter from liability according to the legal construction of the letters of notification and confirmation.

8. Same — Construction of Contract.

The expression “all other usual conditions” did not call for a provision in the charter for “charterer’s surveyor,” but was sufficiently fulfilled by a provision for “competent surveyor,” qualified by a further provision that, if either party was dissatisfied with the survey, the matter should be submitted to two other regular port marine surveyors, with liberty to call in a third surveyor in case of disagreement.