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tlic same home, he (the saver) or the owners of his 

 vessel, shall be entitled to one equal half thereof, 

 and the remaining moiety, without any charge or 

 expence whatsoever, shall he given up to the ori- 

 ginal proprietors. 



5. When it happens that a wreck is abandoned by 

 the captain, officers and crew, and the stores, cargo 

 and goods belonging to it are afterwards saved, — the 

 captain, officers and crew, so deserting the wreck, 

 shall not have any claim whatever on the goods 

 so saved, any more than if they had been totally 

 lost. 



6. But the crew of the ship lost, or any part there- 

 of, v.ho may be present at the time any stores, or 

 any part of the cargo, shall be saved, and shall as- 

 sist in saving them, shall, out of the neat fourth 

 part of all that may be saved, receive the montlily 

 wages due to them at the time the ship was lost ; 

 but, in the event the one-fourth part should be 

 inadequate for this purpose, each individual shall 

 sustain an equal proportion of the existing deficien- 

 cy ; and if the said one-fourth should exceed the sum 

 requisite for paying tlie monthly wages as above, 

 the surplus shall be added to the remaining three- 

 fourths, as the equal and joint property of the sa- 

 vers and the owners of tiic v^ recked vessel. 



