
    Same.
    Ex parte Hagar.
    This was a hearing on petition for a writ of prohibition brought to restrain proceeding in the district court of the district of Delaware,' sitting in admiralty, from further action in a suiti pending for the recovery of half pilotage claimed to be due under the statutory regulations of Delaware.
    H. G. Ward and R. C: McMurtrie, for petition.
    George Gray, Edward G. Bradford, Henry Flanders, and Thomas F. Bayard, contra.
   Mr. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court denying the writ.

Claims for pilotage fees are within the jurisdiction of the admiralty, and such being the case under the decision just rendered Ex parte Gordon, the district court can properly hear and decide the matters in dispute, and prohibition will be denied.

Cases cited: Ex parte McNeil, 13 Wall. 236; Hobart v. Drogan, 10 Pet. 108.  