Chapter IX. *relating to Punishment in the Penitentiary.* March 28, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Place of confinement for convicts where a judicial district has been or shall be divided
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Chap. IX.— An Act *relating to Punishment in the Penitentiary.* March 28, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Place of confinement for convicts where a judicial district has been or shall be divided. That, where any judicial district, has been or may hereafter be divided, the circuit and district courts of the United States shall have power to sentence any one convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment and bard labor, to the penitentiary within the State, though it be out of the judicial district in which the conviction is had.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said courts in the northern Place of confinement of convicts in N. district of Ohio and N. District of Illinois.district of Ohio, and in the northern district of Illinois, be authorized to transfer to the penitentiary of the respective States any prisoner or prisoners who may now be confined in jail in either district, whose offence by law is punishable by confinement to bard labor in the penitentiary. Approved, March 28, 1856. Chapter XI: to continue temporarily the Land-Offices al Kalamazoo, in the State of Michigan, and at Palmyra, in the State of Missouri. 11 Stat. 2 1856-04-05 Chapter XI Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*relating to Punishment in the Penitentiary.* March 28, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Place of confinement for convicts where a judicial district has been or shall be divided
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