Chapter XXX. transferring certain Powers and Duties to the Department of Justice, and providing a Seal therefor
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CHAP. XXX.— An Act transferring certain Powers and Duties to the Department of Justice, and providing a Seal therefor.March 5, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCertain powers, &c., as to convicts, transferred to the Department of Justice.See *Post,* p. 118. all and singular the powers conferred and duties enjoined by existing laws upon the Secretary of the Interior relating to the imprisonment or discharge of convicted offenders against the laws of the United States, or to the reform school and jail in the District of Columbia, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Department of Justice.
Sec. 2. ThatSeal of the Department of Justice;authentication of records. the seal heretofore provided for the office of the Attorney-General shall be the seal of the Department of Justice, with such change in the device as the President of the United States shall approve, and all books, papers, documents, and records in said Department of Justice may he copied and certified under seal in the same manner as those in the State Department, and with the same force and effect. Approved, March 5, 1872.