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 3 10 FESEBAIi BBPOBTEB. �ticated as true copies of such originalSj the autlientication being made according to the law of the foreign country. �When originals are offered they must be satisfactorily iden- tified, and it must appear that they would be entitled to be received in the tribunals of the foreign country as evidence of such crimina]ity, if the inquiry as to such criminality were being had in such foreign tribunals. When copies are offered it must appear that the originals of them would be entitled to be received in the tribunals of the foreign country as evi- dence of such criminality, if the inquiry as to such criminal- ity were being had in such foreign tribunals, and it must appear that the copies are true copies of such originals, and the authentication that the copies are true copies must be made according to the law of the foreign country. There would seem to be a distinction industriously made, in the section, between originals and copies. If copies had been intended to be placed in the same category with originals, the words "or copies of any such depositions, warrants, or other papers" would naturally have been inserted after the words "or other papers," where the latter words first occui ; and the portion of the section after the word "escaped," to and including the word "evidence," would have been omitted. The inference is that a different meaning may be looked for in the expression "properly and legally authenticated, so as to entitle them to be received as evidence of the criminality of the person so apprehended, by the tribunals of the foreign country from whioh the accused party shall have escaped," from that which is to be looked for in the expression "authen- ticated according to the law of such foreign country." �In Webster's Dictionary "authenticate" is defined thus: "To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, at- testation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to enti. tle to credit." In Worcester's Dictionary "authenticate" is defined thus:, "To prove authentic." In Bouvier's Law Dictionary "authenticaton" is defined thus : "A proper or legal attestation. Acts done \yith the view of causing an instrument to be known and identifiëd." In Burrill's Law Dictionary "authentication" is defined thus: "The act or ����