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�To the Governor of the state of Maine
                                                   The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, would respect- 
fully answer to the question, which the Governor was 
pleased to propound to them on the 17th instant, 
that if it has been made to appear to the executive
of this state, that a person charged with the commission
of treason, felony, or other crime in any other state,
has fled from justice there, and is found in this
state, and a demand has been duly made by the
executive authority of the offended state upon the 
executive of this state, for the delivery over of such 
fugitives, in our judgment it becomes his duty to 
cause the party so charged to be delivered over, 
in the manner provided by the second section
of the act, providing for the appointment of agents
for demanding and receiving fugitives from justice, 
although he may be a citizen of this state. 
     And we are further of opinion, that
whether a crime has been committed or not, depends
upon the laws of the state, preferring the charge 
and making the demand.  If therefore the fugitive 
is charged with larceny in taking from that 
state a negro slave, and in such an act is made