FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE. AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS The Executive of any State or Ter application, from justice to be arrested and IN CONGRESS, FEBRUARY 12, 1793. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa ritory, may, on tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, cause fugitives That whenever the Executive authority of any State in the given up to the Union, or either of the Territories northwest or south of the proper authority river Ohio, shall demand any person as a fugitive from justice, of the Executive authority of any such State or Territory, to which such person shall have fled, and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic, by the Governor or Chief Magistrate of the State or Territory from whence the person so charged, fled, it shall be the duty of the Executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person shall have fled, to cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest to be given to the Executive authority making such demand, or the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent, when he shall appear; but if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. And all costs or expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing and transmitting such fugitive to the State or Territory making such demand, shall be paid by such State or Territory. (a) The Third and Fourth Sections relate to Fugitives from Service. to receive fugi 'dy, may trans SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any agent, appointed Agents appointed as aforesaid, who shall receive the fugitive into his custody, tives into custo shall be empowered to transport him or her to the State or port the same. Territory from which he or she shall have fled. And if any person or persons shall, by force, set at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from such agent, while transporting, as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year. COMMISSIONERS CERTIFICATE. To His Excellency KINSLEY S. BINGHAM, Governor of the State of Michigan: We, the Commissioners appointed pursuant to an Act. entitled "An Act to Collect, Compile and Reprint the Laws of this State," approved February 2, 1857, do hereby Certify, that we have examined the Laws collected and arranged, by THOMAS M. COOLEY, Esquire, the person appointed by the Legislature to perform that service, and have found the Laws so collected and arranged, to be a correct Compilation of all General Laws in force. HOVEY K. CLARKE, ALBERT M. BAKER. |