Requisition., December 19, 1863.

Requisition.

I, Nathaniel Gunnison, of the city of Halifax, and county of Halifax, esquire, vice-consul of the United States, acting as consul in the absence of M. M. Jackson, consul, request of the government of Nova Scotia that they will give to the government of the United States all the assistance and co-operation in their power towards the apprehension of Henry C. Braine, sometimes called John C. Braine, George Brooks, Henry A. Parr, George Sears, George Moore, Robert Cox, Gilbert Cox, James Kenny, George Wade, Robert Moore, and William Harris, of the United States of America, who have been guilty of an act of piracy in seizing unlawfully the steamer Chesapeake, an American steamship, off Cape Cod, and causing, while so seizing illegally, the death of Owen Shaffer, second engineer on board the said steamship, by shooting him; that I request the assistance of the government of Nova Scotia, by virtue of being the acting consular officer in this city and province, and upon the request of the government of the United States, communicated to me by the Honorable William H. Seward, that the said Henry C. Braine, sometimes called John C. Braine, George Brooks, Henry A. Parr, George Sears, George Moore, Robert Cox, Gilbert Cox, James Kenny, George Wade, Robert Moore, and William Harris, are offenders against the laws of the United States, and that they are now seeking an asylum in the province of Nova Scotia, in order to protect themselves and evade the laws of the United States and the punishment of crimes committed within the jurisdiction of the United States, and of crimes as well against the laws of the United States as against the laws of Great Britain and Ireland, and her colonies and dependencies, and I now request the assistance of the government and authorities of Nova Scotia by virtue of the provisions of the treaty commonly called the Ashburton treaty, and made between Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.

I have, &c.,