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as is clearly illegal on the face of it, it is not a case within the Statute.

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Offender must be named; description will not do; for tho’ the wart shod describe him as the person sworn to by such an one, yet still that deponent has not sworn that he will truly point out the man of whom he has spoken. It is an arrest without oath.

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Mr. Church on same side.
Admitting that or rather supposing that the Stat: does extend to this country, & that both Judge & Constable are [compret and in it?], contends that the wart has not been obeyed.
To shew this he read from the