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876 FEDERAL BBPORTBB. �pened to be there is immaterial. It was mere evidence of the indebtedness, and not a negotiable seourity for it. For these reasons the Ehode Island letters cannot avail the de- fendant. �I think it may be doubted whether the Ehode Island letters •were such letters as are contemplated by the statutes of New York as original letters of administration, which authorize the issue of ancillary letters here at ail, because they do not purport to be letters of administration on Ihe goods and es- tate of a deceased person. But, as this point bas not been argued by counsel, I have preferred not to put the decision of the case on this ground, and its further consideration is un- necessary. �Judgment for the plaintiff for 1880.26, with interest from March 1, 1879, with costa. ���United States v. Anoabola. �(Circuit Goiirt, 8. D. New York. January 26, 1880.) �iHVEIGIiBMBNT— iNVOLTmïART SERVICE AB StiIBET MUBICIAN — AOT OF �JuNB 23, 1874, (18 8t. at Labsb, 251.) �Motion for new trial. �William P. Fiero, Asst. Dist. Atty., for the United States. �Charles S. Spencer, for defendant. �Blatchford, J. On the twenty-third of June, 1874, an act was passed by congress, (18 U. S. St. at Large, 251,) entitled "An act to protect persons of foreign birth against foroible constraint or involuntary servitude." �It provides that "whoever shall knowingly and wilfuUy bring into the United States, or the territories thereof, any person inveigled or forcibly kidnapped in any other oountry, vcith intent to hold such person so inveigled or kidnapped in con- finement, or to any involuntary service, and whoever shall knowingly and wilfuUy sell, or cause to be sold, into any con- dition of involuntary servitude, any other person, for any ��� �