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814 fedkhal bepobteb.' �"I certîfy that I believe the above signature, 'Godfrey Lushington,' to be the handwriting of Godfrey Lushington, Esq., D. C. L., assistant under secretary of state for the home department. �"JXJLIAN PaDNCBFOTB, �[Seal.] "Assistant Secretary of State for Poreign Affairs. "Foreign Office, 7th October, 1880." �"I certify that I believe the aboTe signature, 'Julian Paunce- fote,' to be the handwriting of Sir Julian Pauncefote, one of the assistant under secretaries of state for foreign affairs; and that the foregoing documents are properly and legally authenticated, so as to entitle them to be received in the tri- bunals of Great Britain as evidence of the criminality of George Fov?ler, alias E. Gray, named therein, in respect of the offenoe named therein, charged against him as committed in Great Britain, if the inquiry as to such criminality were being had in the tribunals of Great Britain. In witness whereof, I bave subsoribed my name and caused the seal of this legation to be affixed, thia eighth day of October, 1880. �"J. E. LOWELL, �"Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary [Seal.] of the United States of America. "Legation of the United States, London, October 8, 1880." �In regard to the "copy of the information, in addition to the certificate of Angus Holden, justice of the peace, that it is a true copy of the original information, the certificates to such copy ought to be in, or amount in substance to, the following forms : "I hereby certify that the signature of Angus Holden to the foregoing copy information is, to the best of my knowl- edge and belief, his signature, and the signature of a magis- trate in England having authority to take such information, and that the original of said information would be received in the tribunals of Great Britain as evidence of the criminal- ity of George Fowler, alias E. Gray, named therein, in respect of the offence charged against him as committed in Great Britain, namely, that he feloniously did forge, utter, and put ����