Chapter CLXIV. *providing for the Punishment of Marshals and Deputy Marshalls of the United States, or other Ministerial Officers, for permitting the Escape of Prisoners in their Custody.* June 21, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem
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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act *providing for the Punishment of Marshals and Deputy Marshalls of the United States, or other Ministerial Officers, for permitting the Escape of Prisoners in their Custody.* June 21, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That whenever any marshal, deputy marshal, or other ministerial officer, shall have in his custody any prisoner by virtue of process issued under the laws of the United States by any court, judge, or commissioner, and such marshal, deputy marshal, or other ministerial officer, shall voluntarily suffer such prisoner to escape, Voluntary escapes of prisoner by marshals, &c., how punished.the officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any district or circuit court of the United States, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, according to the discretion of the court in which such conviction shall take place, having respect to the nature of the crime with which the escaped prisoner shall have been charged, in a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, and for a term not exceeding two years.
This act shall be taken and construed to apply not only to cases in which the prisoner who escaped was charged, or found guilty of an offence against the laws of the United States, but also to To what cases this act to apply.cases in which a prisoner may be in custody charged with offences against any foreign government with whom the United States have treaties of extradition. Approved, June 21, 1860.