Section 6
SEC. 6. If, on such examination, it is made to appear that the person so arrested is a citizen of the United States, and that the application is made by a consul other than the United States consul, and in all cases where it shall appear that the person arrested is a citizen of the Philippine Islands, he shall be forthwith discharged from arrest, and shall be left to the ordinary course of law. But if this is not made to appear, and such court or judge finds, upon the papers hereinbefore referred to, a sufficient prima facie case that the matter concerns only the internal order and discipline of such foreign vessel, or that the ease, whether its nature be civil or criminal, does not affect directly the execution of the laws in force in the Philippine Islands or the rights and duties of any citizen of the Philippine Islands or of the United of States, with the above exception, he shall forthwith commit such person to prison, after approval of the commitment by the appropriate consular officer, whore prisoners under sentence for crime may be lawfully committed, or, in his discretion, to the master or chief officer of such foreign vessel, to be subject to the lawful orders, control, and discipline of such master or chief officer, and to the jurisdiction of the consular or commercial authority of the nation to which such vessel belongs, to the exclusion of any authority or upon jurisdiction of the Philippine Islands in the premises. No person shall be detained more than the period of time stipulated in the treaty under which Hie proceedings are had, and if the treaty specifies no time, or if the application is made by officers acting as American consuls, in such person shall he detained more than two months after his arrest, and at the end of the time herein specified for his. detention he shall be set at liberty and shall not again be arrested for the same cause. The expenses of the arrest and the detention of the person so arrested shall be paid by the consular officers making the application.