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of occupying such parts as each discovered and there by established their supreme command over it, asserting their claim both the domain and empire. "By domain" say they, "we mean that by virtue of which a nation may use the country for the supply of its necessities, may dispose of it as it thinks proper and derive from it any advantages it is capable of yielding" and by "Empire we mean the right of sovereign command by which the nation directs and regulates at its pleasure every thing that possess in the Country." This lucid explanation of "domain and Empire" is taken from Vattel's laws of Nations*. It affords me pleasure that the Committee consulted this work, which is open to me also for the same use. In our Courts of Justice, when a witness is called to hear testimony in either a civil or criminal case, he is called upon, on oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the case depending. The witness

[* The Law of Nations, by Emerich de Vattel]