PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF SIMS On Friday morning, G. T. Curtis, Esq., U.S. Commissioner, pronounced his decision in the case of Thomas Sims, overruling the constitutional objections to the Fugitive Slave Law, and to the judicial functions of the commissioners of the U.S. Courts. … “His Honor, after further comment on the points presented in the case, declared he would have to remand the prisoner to the custody of the Marshall, as he had not found sufficient reason to discharge him”. The prisoner was therefore taken to his place of confinement…
(Liberator, April 18, 1851, pg 2)