[778] 2 Paine's Reports, 354; 2 Western Law Journal, 282.
[779] 2 Paine's Reports, 354, 355; also, 2 Western Law Journal, 289.
[780] See Section 3 of the act, Statutes at Large, I, 302-305.
[781] 16 Peters' Reports, 598.
[782] 16 Peters' Reports, 608, 622. See also Marion G. McDougall's Fugitive Slaves, pp. 108, 109.
[783] M. G. McDougall's Fugitive Slaves, p. 28.
[784] See Chap. IX, pp. 245, 246, and Chap. X, p. 337.
[785] Statutes at Large, IX, 462.
[786] Henry W. Rogers, Editor, Constitutional History of the United States as seen in the Development of American Law, Lecture III, by George W. Biddle, p. 152.
[787] Section 3 of the law of 1793 provided that "the person to whom such labour or service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize and arrest such fugitive from labour, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, ... within the state, or before any magistrate of a county (etc.) ... wherein such seizure ... shall be made, and upon proof to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate ... it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof ... which shall be a sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive ... to the state or territory from which he or she fled."