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Show 5544 3554 Kolb book are not admissible. MR. BLACKMAR: We note an exception. any other thing left in either one of these documents unde-cided. Mr. Farnsworth reserved the right so except to such portions of those various official documents as in his opinion were not relevant, and all the official documents have gone in with that understanding. Of course, I personally would not hold them to be admissible except so far as I could find them relevant, and I think in view of what happened this morning, that counsel on both sides ought to agree with me that so far as those official documents contain recitals of historical facts as to navigation which are not facts observed by the man making the report, they ought not to be considered as admissible. The very fact, for instance, that a statement is made In one of these reports, undoubtedly by accident, which is not born out by the testimony of the witnesses on the stand as to navigation, shows that in a case in which navigation is the sole issue we ought not to accept a statement made in an offi- |