The Supreme Court ruled against the applicant and found the statute constitutional.

the Gauls, who carried on the cross-channel trade between Gaul and Britain, were the inhabitants of the northern coast.

These veterans were commissioned to defend the place to the last extremity; and, as due time had been given for preparation, the town was victualled for fifteen months' provisions, and even the crops growing in the vega had been garnered before their prime, to save them from the hands of the enemy.

Initials affixed in this manner do not, therefore, by themselves bring the initialer into any connection with the order for criminal purposes.