31 Mar. 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch. Investigatorial

§.7 Course

For giving effect to For /securing the efficacy of/ this mode of communication, two arrangements will be necessary. 1. The interposition /exercise/ of the authority of the Judge who imposing upon the proposed witness the obligation of rendering the service required at his hands. 2. In arrangement of the business of the letter-post for the purpose of ascertaining the delivery of the letters to and for with a degree of punctuality and evidentiality sufficient for the purposes of justice.

1. As to the mode of inferring the requisition by the sanction[?] of the judge. The questions proposed to be propounded by the party, are presented by him: the judge, who in the terms in which they are presented, or in such others as, in case of their impropriety in any respect, he thinks fit to substitute, testifies his allowance by his signature. The terms thus adjusted, a copy is taken by an officer of the Court upon the appropriate paper, in the margin of which are printed according to the plan delineated in a former book, + the regulations established in relation to the subject, and in particular a designation of the consequences of disobedience, as well in respect of punishment, as of satisfaction to the party injured by such offence: consequences which of course will be susceptible of considerable diversity, according to the nature and importance of the cause.

The words applicable without variation in all cases are of course inserted in the print, blanks being left for the insertion of the variable ones in manuscript.

+ B. VI. Pre-appointed