It is provided by the 33d Section of the act of September 24th. 1789

“That for any crime or offence against the , the offender may, by any justice or judge of the , or by any Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate of any of the , where he may be found agreably to the usual mode of against offenders in such state & at the expense of the , be arrested, & imprisoned, or bailed as the case may be, for trial before such court of the as by this act has cognizance of the offence; & copies of the process shall be returned as speedily as may be into the Clerks office of such Court, together with the of the witnesses, for their appearance to testify in the case; which recognizances the magistrate before whom the examination shall be, may require on pain of imprisonment. and if such commitment of the offender, or the witnesses shall be in a district other than that in which the offence is to be tried, it shall be the duty of the Judge of that District where the delinquent is imprisoned, season [p. [1]]