MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The question before the commissioner in this case was whether, in the language of the treaty of 1842, article X, 8 Stat. 572, 576, there was "such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had been there committed." In other words,...
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