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 SOe FEDERAL REPOSTEB. �3. Same— Copies— At;TiiEiîTioATioiî.—fi'(sZ«Z,/w«^,that the second class, �the copies, must be copies of original documents, which originale would be entitled to be received in the tribunals of the foreign coun- try as evidence of the criminality of the person, in respect to the offence charged against him as committed there, if the inquiry as to his criminality in respect of said ofEence were being had in such for- eign tribunals, and euch copies must be " authenticated according to the lawof such foreign country;" that is, authenticated as true copies of such originals, the authentication being made according to the law of the foreign country. �4. BAMB—AvTSEîiTicATiOTS—FROOW.—Reld, further, that there was noth- �ing in the statute which made the certiflcate of the United States diplo- matie or consular offleers the only competent proof that either the originals or the copies were authenticated in the manner required by the statute. �6. Bame — Same— Samb. — Edd, further, that the original papers might be authenticated by oral proof. �6. Same— Same — Same. — Eeld, furtJier, that tnerewas nothing in the �statute which necessarily excluded the authentication of the copies by oral proof, or excluded oral proof as to what the law of the foreign Country was as to such authentication, or oral proof that such oral authentication was according to the law of the forbign country, �7. Habbab CoEPtrs— Question op Faot— Decision dp Commissionbe. — �The decision of a United States commissioner as to the fact of the criminality of the accused, in a case of extradition, cannot bereviewed by the circuit court on a writ of habea» corpus. �Hdbeas Corpus. �Edward Heaton, for relator. �Francis I. Marbury, for the British Government. �Blatchfobd, 0. J. This case is before the court on haheas corpus, in proceedings for extradition brought before this court by a certiorari. On a complaint made before Com- missioner Osborn by the consul general of Great Britain, at New York, that the relator, George Fowler, alias E. Gray, had, on the eighteenth of September, 1880, at Bradford, in England, committed the crimes of f orgery and the utterance of forged paper, by feloniously forging and uttering, knowing the same to be forged, a eheck or bank draft dated at Brad- ford, on that day, for £10 sterling, payable to the order of W. Joweti, and purporting to be drawn by said Jowett on the Bradford Banking Company^ limited, and indorsed by eaid ����