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none is set forth in the return to a writ of Habeas Corpus, if one should happen to be said out in such a case. [See the precedents in Tremaine’s Pl: Cor] In like manner here the order, it is to be presumed, was on writing, and signed by the chief Secretary, as the statute requires; but that original order remains of course with the Council, as the authentick monument of their proceeding, and though a copy of it was probably sent to Mr. Gordon, no law required that he should insert a copy of that copy in the return to the writ. Reason does not demand it, and the [ILL[ in an express authority for saying that it was not necessary in the instance now before the Court.
Let Mr. Duane be remanded.