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more and that insertions
efforts would have been
made to detain the vessel. I do not know in what light the Attorney General regards the duties
of a Sheriff's Officer to whom he likens the marshal on
a warrant of distress; whether he considers that a
Sheriff would efficiently perform his duty by going through merely the form of arresting property, which he had been ordered to seize and nothing more; if so,
I can only say that that is not the
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