7 GCA § 24513: Mariners and Others May Assert Their Claims for Wages, Notwithstanding Prior Attachment; How Enforced.

Any mariner, boatman, or other person employed in the service of the steamer, vessel, or boat attached, who may wish to assert his claim for wages against the same, the attachments being issued for other demands than such wages, may file an affidavit of his claim, setting forth the amount and the particular service rendered, with the clerk of the court; and thereafter no attachment can be discharged upon filing an undertaking, unless the amount of such claim, or the amount determined as provided in the next section, be covered thereby in addition to the other requirements; and any execution issued against such steamer, vessel, or boat, upon judgment recovered thereafter, must direct the application of the proceeds of any sale:

1. To the payment of the amount of such claims filed, or the amount determined, as provided in the next section, which amount the clerk must insert in the writ;

2. To the payment of the judgment and costs, and officer's fees, and must direct the payment of any balance to the owner, master, or consignee who may have appeared in the action; but if no appearance by them be made therein, it must direct a deposit of the balance in court.