Arthur Gordon to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, December 28, 1863

Lieutenant Governor Gordon to Lord Lyons.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship’s despatch of the 17th instant.

On the evening of the 22d instant I received your lordship’s telegram informing me that the Secretary of State for the United States had demanded the extradition in the usual form of the parties therein named, and on the following morning I received a similar communication, accompanied by an official requisition from the United States consul at St. John.

I lost no time in directing the law officers of the crown in this province to prepare the form of a warrant under the act 6 and 7 Vict., cap. 76, for the apprehension of the parties named. Unfortunately, the attorney and solicitor general were both absent from Frederickton, and some delay necessarily ensued in consulting them. It was not till late on the evening of the 24th that the warrant was prepared; as soon as it was signed, I sent it down by express to St. John. Mr. Braine, however, (the only one of the parties implicated who, so far as I am aware, was known to be in this province,) is stated to have left St. John that morning.

Every exertion will no doubt be made to insure his arrest under the warrant just issued, should he remain in this province.

I have, &c.,