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3) receipts and exhibits therein referred to- The Judge however made an order on the 28th Decr. after the court had adjourned sine die that the money "be paid into the Registry of the Court" &c- This we exceedingly regretted, as it will greatly injure Mr Shepherd, and presents the government in the awkward attitude of seizing & selling property its right to which no one disputes and of receiving full compensation therefore, and their seizing and withholding from its honest bona fide purchaser the proceeds of the property so sold. Mr Shepherd, has obtained a transcript of this record and has gone to the City of Washington to see if something cannot be done by way of [[?supersedences]], prohibition or some other remedial process in the supreme court. We furnished His Hon, the Judge, a brief in this case, but we failed to satisfy him that the money should not be brought into Court. So much for this case, in which, if the Govt. succeeds, it simply takes from Mr Shepherd money which in all honesty & good faith it is bound to refund, to say nothing of the costs which is to be deducted from it by reason of this judicial interpretation. We confess to our surprise that