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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 13 STAT. · March 3, 1865 · Chapter CXXI

Chapter CXXI. *providing for the Confinement of juvenile Offenders against the Laws of the United States in Houses of Refuge.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Confinement of juvenile offenders convicted in any court o

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Chap. CXXI.— An Act *providing for the Confinement of juvenile Offenders against the Laws of the United States in Houses of Refuge.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Confinement of juvenile offenders convicted in any court of the United States. That juvenile offenders against the laws of the United States, being under the age of sixteen years, and who may hereafter be convicted of crime by any court of the United States, the punishment whereof shall be imprisonment, shall be confined during the term of sentence in some house of refuge to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be transported and delivered to the warden or keeper of such house of refuge by the marshal of the district where such shall have occurred; or if such conviction be had in the District of Columbia, then, and in such case, the transportation and delivery shall be by the warden of the jail of said district, and the reasonable actual expense of the transportation, necessary subsistence, and hire, and transportation of assistants and the marshal or warden, only, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Interior, out of the judiciary fund.
Sec. 2. Secretary of Interior to contract for their subsistence, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the managers or persons having control of such houses of refuge for the imprisonment, subsistence, and proper employment of all such juvenile offenders, and to give the several courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia notice of the places so provided for the confinement of said offenders; and such offenders shall be sentenced to confinement in the house of refuge nearest the place of conviction so designated by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, March 3, 1865.
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