Chapter CXLI. *further to provide for giving Effect to Treaty Stipulations between this and foreign Governments for the Extradition of Criminals*
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CHAP. CXLI.— An Act *further to provide for giving Effect to Treaty Stipulations between this and foreign Governments for the Extradition of Criminals*. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Persons accused of crime, delivered by foreign governments to an agent of the United States, to be brought within the United States and tried, That whenever any person who shall have been delivered by any foreign government to an agent or agents of the United States for the purpose of being brought within the United States and tried for any crime of which he is duly accused, the President shall have power to take all necessary measures for the transportation and safe-keeping of such accused person, and for his security against lawless violence, until the final conclusion of his trial for the338FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. III CH. 141, 142, 143. 1869. to be safely transported and kept until after trial, &c.crime[s] or offences specified in the warrant of extradition, and until his final discharge from custody or imprisonment for or on account of such crimes or offences, and for a reasonable time thereafter. And it shall be The President may employ land and naval forces, &c.lawful for the President, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as may be necessary for the safe-keeping and protection of the accused as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. The agent to receive such accused person for the United States, vested with the powers of a marshal.*And be it further enacted*, That any person duly appointed as agent to receive in behalf of the United States the delivery by a foreign government of any person accused of crime committed within the jurisdiction of the United States and to convey him to the place of his trial, shall be, and hereby is, vested with all the powers of a marshal of the United States in the several districts through which it may be necessary for him to pass with such prisoner, so far as such power is requisite for his safe-keeping.
Sec. 3. Penalty for knowingly obstructing, &c. such agent in the discharge of his duties, or for rescuing, &c. such prisoner.*And be it further enacted*, That if any person or persons shall knowingly and willfully obstruct, resist, or oppose such agent in the execution of his duties, or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, such prisoner, whether in the custody of the agent aforesaid, or of any marshal, sheriff, jailer, or other officer or person to whom his custody may have lawfully been committed, every person so knowingly and willfully offending in the premises shall, on conviction thereof before the district or circuit court of the United States for the district in which the offence was committed, be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Approved, March 3, 1869.