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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, Vol. 9
An attempt was made on trial, to invalidate the warrant issued to the defendant, Foster, as sergeant. We think the evidence offered for that purpose was properly rejected. The practice of signing these warrants in blank, and authorising the captains to fill out and deliver them to the sergeants of their respective companies, we believe to be very general, if not universal. No evil is known to have ever resulted from it. In the case cited to this point of Burt v. Dimmock, 11 Pick. 355, the objection was, that the colonel had not even signed the warrant but that another person had signed it in his name, under a previous gen eral licence to that effect. And if the defendant, Stockwell, had competent authority to fill and deliver out the warrant, the additional facts, offered to be shown, could be of no legal irnpor tance. This authority would imply the right of selecting the proper officer to receive the warrant. And though, by mistake, or otherwise, it might once have been delivered to another per son, that fact could not impair its validity as a warrant to Fos ter, after it had been accepted and acted upon by him. Besides, we may well presume, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that in pursuance of the 8th section of the statute, this warrant had been duly recorded by the adjutant, as having issued to Foster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
