Let all process, therefore, be
confined to his property.
_Murder_, not amounting to treason, being the only case in which the
fugitive is to be delivered;
On what _evidence_, and by _whom_, shall he be delivered? In this
country let any justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, or
other judge of the district where the fugitive is found, use the same
proceedings as for a murder committed on the high seas, until the
finding of the 'true bill' by the grand jury; but evidence on oath from
the country demanding him, though in writing and ex parte, should have
the same effect as if delivered orally at the examination.
A true bill being found by the grand jury, let the officer in whose
custody the fugitive is, deliver him to the person charged to demand and
receive him.
In the British provinces adjoining us, the same proceedings will do.
In the Spanish provinces, a proceeding adapted to the course of their
laws should be agreed on.
March 22, 1792.
LETTER CVIII.--TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, April 28,1792
TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.
Philadelphia, April 28,1792;
Dear Sir,
My last letter to you was of the 10th of March. The preceding one
of January the 23rd had conveyed to you your appointment as Minister
Plenipotentiary to the court of France.
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