Perovich

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Territory of Alaska, rendered on the 30th day of January, 1908, remanding the appellant to the custody of the appellee as United States marshal, to be dealt with according to law, and dismissing a writ of habeas corpus. The absence of a proper record on appeal would justify a dismissal of the appeal, without considering the question attempted to be raised by the assignments of .error.

There is in the record a paper purporting to be “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law,” but it is unsigned, *280 and therefore has properly no place in the record. There is also an unsigned exception which recites that the— “plaintiff excepts to each and every conclusion of law reached and held by the court,' upon the ground that in neither or any óf them is the law correctly stated, and that they, and each of them, are opposed to the law.”

In the assignment of errors there are recitals from which it appears that there was a sentence of death pronounced against the appellant on May 29, 1907; that application was made to the President of the United States for commutation of sentence, and that, pending the determination…