[Copy of warrant.], this 16th March, 1864

[Copy of warrant.]

To James A. Harding, esquire, sheriff of the city and county of St. John, the deputy sheriff of the city and county, and to all constables and others, her Majesty’s officers of the peace, for the said city and county of St. John, whom these may concern:

Province of New Brunswick, Admiralty ——-, to with:

These are, in her Majesty’s name, to command you and every of you, upon sight hereof, to take and bring before me, the Hon. Robert Parker, one of her Majesty’s justices of the supreme court of New Brunswick and one of the commissioners named in the communication issued under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, pursuant to the statutes and acts of the imperial Parliament in such case made and provided, or some other of the commissioners named in the said communication, the bodies of John C. Braine, David Collins, James McKinney, Linus Seelye, George Wade, W. C. Brooks, Isaac Tred-well, Henry Parr, George Robinson, Gilbert Cox, Robert Cox, Robert Moore, George Moore, Henry Osborne, and Vernon G. Locke, (alias John Parker,) of whom you shall have notice, to answer all such matters and things as on her Majesty’s behalf are, on oath, objected against them by Charles Johnson, on suspicion of having been guilty of the forcible, piratical, and felonious seizing upon the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the admiralty of England and of the court appointed by the commissioners aforesaid, and then and there stealing, taking, and running away with, with force and arms, from the care, custody, and possession of Isaac Willetts, then being the master and commander, and by himself and his mariners in lawful possession of the same, the steamer or vessel called the Chesapeake; and on board the said steamer or vessel on the high seas, within the jurisdiction aforesaid, to wit, about twenty miles east-northeast from Cape Cod, in the State of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, unlawfully, feloniously, and maliciously and cruelly did make an assault on one Orin Schaffer, second engineer of the said steamer or vessel, and him, the said Orin Schaffer, feloniously, wilfully, piratically, and of malice aforethought, killing and murdering, against the peace of our lady the Queen, her crown and dignity, and to be examined touching and concerning the said charge, and to be further dealt with according to law. Hereof fail not at your peril.