Dickinson

This is an application for an alternative writ commanding the defendant, as surveyor general of the state of California and ex-officio register of the state land office, to desist from removing certain public records from the state and to permit plaintiff to inspect the same.

It appeared at the hearing that certain criminal actions are now in progress of trial at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, before a United States court, wherein the United States is plaintiff and certain citizens thereof are defendants, in which said actions the defendants are charged with violating certain of the laws of the United States; that the United States made application to the said court, pursuant to the practice in said court in such cases made and provided, that a subpoena duces tecum issue to the defendant in the present proceeding commanding him to appear before said court, as a witness in said criminal actions, and bring with him certain official documents, papers and records in said subpoena designated and also referred to in the petition herein, and that at the hearing of said application the parties to said criminal action appeared, and that said court, after due deliberation,…