¶1In Admiralty. In the matter of the steamship Bethlehem. On exceptions to commissioner’s report on re-reference.
¶2Exceptions overruled, and report confirmed.
¶3See, also, 286 Fed. 400..
¶4Lewis, Adler & Laws, Howard M. Long, Biddle, Paul Dawson & Yocum, J. Claude Bedford, B. M. Boyd, Willard M. Harris, and George W. Coles, U. S. Atty., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for exceptants.
¶6The exceptions of the United States as mortgagee raise the same questions as is the case of In re 'Steamship Northern Wave, 298 Fed. 188, and the facts are substantially identical. For the reasons set out in the opinion in that case, the exceptions are overruled, the report of the commissioner confirmed, and distribution of the fund awarded in accordance with his report.
¶7An appropriate decree may be presented.