Old report of the St. Albans Raid and the Picture in Question

[Wild Bill]

The Webster-Ashburon Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary of the US and what became Canada except for Oregon Territory. Various borders at places east of the Great Lakes were established including the northern bride of Maine, for which we fought the Aroostook War (1839), and across the Great plains at 49 degrees latitude. It also delineated various crimes for which citizens of British Canada and the US could be subject to extradition, which the US claimed was not honored in the St Albans bank robberies. Hence the receiving by the British of the papers from Richmond bearing the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America declaring the robbers to be Confederate soldiers carrying out a legitimate military mission negated this extradition problem.