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rant, or before some other magistrate, or court, having cognizance of the case.

Sec. 4. When any officer, in the execution of a search warrant, shall find any stolen or embezzled property, or shall seize any other things, for which a search is allowed by this chapter, all the property and things so seized, shall be safely kept by the direction of the court or magistrate, so long as shall be necessary for the purpose of being produced as evidence on any trial, and as soon as may be afterwards all such stolen and embezzled property shall be restored to the owner thereof, and all other things seized by virtue of such warrant shall be destroyed, under the direction of the court or magistrate.

Section 1. The governor of this territory may, in any case authorized by the constitution and laws of the United States, appoint agents to demand of the executive authority of any state or territory, any fugitive from justice, or any person charged with felony or any other crime in this territory, and whenever an application shall be made to the governor for that purpose, the district attorney or any other prosecuting officer of the territory, when required by the governor, shall forthwith investigate the grounds of such application, and report to the governor all material circumstances which may come to his knowledge, with an abstract of the evidence, and his opinion as to the expediency of the demand; but the governor may, in any case, appoint such agents without requiring the opinion of, or any report from the district attorney; and the accounts of the agents appointed for such purpose, shall in all cases be audited by the governor and paid from the territorial treasury.