Letter

FIELD, Acting-Attorney General to Francis C. Barlow, July 3, 1869

[92] *Mr. Field, Acting Attorney-General, to Mr. Barlow, United States marshal.

Francis C. Barlow, United States Marshal, New York:

The officers and men must be put in judicial custody as soon as possible, either under separate or joint complaints j and if a writ of habeas corpus issues before they are arrested on a warrant, pending the hearing of the writ, a warrant can be obtained, and immediately served, if they are discharged at the hearing.

Give copy to district attorney.

W. A. FIELD,
Acting-Attorney General.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.