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APPENDIX.

That there may be a continuous history of circumstances
attending this case, it has been deemed advisable to publish
the whole proceedings before the Courts, that ib may be bound
with the report published by the Governor.

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

At 8 1/2 o'clock on Saturday night, after the Commissioners
and Sheriff had been committed to jail, application was made
to Hon. James L. Bartol, associate Judge of the Court of
Appeals, at his residence in this city, for writs of habeas
corpus, addressed to Thomas C. James, Esq., Warden of the
city jail, to produce before him the bodies of Messrs. Yoilng
and Valiant, the newly appointed Commissioners of Police,
and Mr. Thomson, the Sheriff of Baltimore city, at the
room of the Circuit Court of Baltimore, at 9 o'clock on Mon-
day morning, November 5, 1866, with the cause of their de-
tention, &c. Judge Bartol granted three separate writs, the
two for the release of the Police Commissioners, on the peti-
tion of their counsel, Messrs. Latrobe, Schley and Frazier,
and the writ for the release of the Sheriff, was on the petition
of his own counsel, Orville Horwitz, Esq.

The writs were served on the Warden on Monday morning,
between 7 and 8 o'clock.

[From the Baltimore Sun.]
FAILURE OF THE WARDEN.

Judge Bartol was punctually upon the bench.

Mr. Latrobe said: The writs were served this morning, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, in ample time for the Warden
of the Jail to produce the three prisoners in Court. A gen-
tleman of the bar, (Mr. Whitney,) has just told us—now
past nine o'clock—that the Warden of the Jail was here, but
without the prisoners; that he had exhausted, if I under-
stood his language correctly, all his means of conveyance,
and had come to the Court house for the purpose of procur-
ing other means of bringing the prisoners forth. It did recur