writing,
acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal office or
court of the State or Territory in which the game may be executed,
may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person, either by procuring a
warrant from some one of the courts, judges, or commissioners
aforesaid, of the proper circuit, district or county, for the
apprehension of such fugitive from service or labor, or by seizing
and arresting such fugitive, where the same can be done without
process, and by taking and causing such person to be taken
forthwith before such court, judge or commissioner, whose duty it
shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a
summary manner; and upon satisfactory proof being made, by
deposition or affidavit, in writing, to be taken and certified by
such court, judge, or commissioner, or by other satisfactory
testimony, duly taken and certified by some court, magistrate,
justice of the peace, or other legal officer authorized to
administer an oath, and take depositions under the laws of the
State or Territory from which such person owing service or labor
may have escaped, with a certificate of such magistracy or other
authority, as aforesaid, with the seal of the proper court or
officer thereto attached, which seal shall be sufficient to
establish the competency of the proof, and with proof, also by
affidavit, of the identity of the person whose service or labor is
claimed to be due as aforesaid, that the person so arrested does in
fact owe service or labor to the person or persons claiming him or
her, in the State or Territory from which such fugitive may have
escaped as aforesaid, and that said person escaped, to make out and
deliver to such claimant, his or her agent or attorney, a
certificate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service
or labor due from such fugitive to the claimant, and of his or her
escape from the State or Territory in which such service or labor
was due to the State or Territory in which he or she was arrested,
with authority to such claimant, or his or her agent or attorney to
use such reasonable force and restraint as may be necessary under
the circumstances of the case, to take and remove such fugitive
person back to the State or Territory from whence he or she may
have escaped as aforesaid.