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3316. FUGITIVES, Debtors.—

In the case
of fugitive debtors and criminals, it is always
well that coterminous States should under


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stand one another, as far as their ideas on
the rightful powers of government can be
made to go together. When they separate,
the cases may be left unprovided for.—
To Messrs. Carmichael and Short. Washington ed. iii, 349.
(Pa., 1792)