Year: 1866

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Judges of the Circuit and District Courts
of the United States, and the Judges of
the Superior Courts of the Territories,
severally and collectively, in term time
and vacation, upon satisfactory proof be-
ing made, to issue warrants and precepts
for arresting and bringing before them
all offenders against the provisions Of
this act, and, on examination, to discharge,
admit to bail, Or commit them for trial,
as the facts may warrant.


SEC 6. And such Commissioners are
hereby authorized and required to cxer-
else and discharge all the powers and du-'
ties conferred on them by this act, and
the same duties with regard to the Of
fenses created by this act as they are
authorized by law to exercise with regard
to other offenses against the laws of the
United States That it shall be the duty
of the Marshals and Deputy -Marshals to
obey and execute all warrants and pre-
cepts issued under the provisions Of the
act, when to them directed, and should
any Marshal or Deputy Marshal refuse
to receive such warrant or other process
when rendered, or to use all proper means
diligently to execute the same, he shall
on conviction thereof, be fined in the
sum of one thousand dollars, to the use
Of the person upon whom the accused is
alleged to have committed the ofense;
and the better to enable the Commits
sioners to execute their duties faithfully
and efficinently, in conformity with the
Constitution Of the United States and
the requirements Of this act, they are
hereby authorized and empowered with
in their counties respectively, to appoint
in writing, under their hands, any one or
more suitable persons from time to time
to execute all such warrants and other
process as may be issued by them in the
lawful performance Of their respective
duties, and the persons so appointed to
execute any warrant or process as aforc-
said shall have authority to summon and
call to their aid the bystanders or posse
comitatuS of the proper county, or such
portion OF the land or naval forces of the
United States or Of the militia as may be
necessary to the performance Of the duty
with which they are charged, and to in
sure a faithful observance Of the clause
of the Constitution which prohibits Sla-
very in conformity with the provisions
of this act; and said warrants shall run
and be executed by said officers any where
in the State Or Territory within which
they are issued.


Sec. 7. That any person who shall
knowingly and wrongfully obstruct, him
der or prevent any officer or other per-
son charged with the execution of any
warrant or process issued under the pro-
visions of this act, or any person or per-
sons lawfully assisting him or them from
arresting any person for whose apprehen-
sion such warrant or process may have
been issued, or shall rescue or attempt
to rescue such porson from the custody
of the officer, or persons, or those law
fully assisting as aforesaid when so arres-
ted, pursuant to the authority herein Civ
en- and declared, or shall aid, abet, or as
sist any peason so arrested as aforesaid,
directly or indirectly, to escape from the
custody of the officer or other persons Ie-
gally authorized as aforesaid, or shall har-
Dor or conceal any person for whom
warrant or process shall have been issued
as aforesaid, so as to prevent his discovery
and arrest after notice or knowledge of
the fact that warrant has been issued
for the apprehension Of such person shall,
for either Of said offences, be subject
to a fine not exceeding 81 900 and i'm
prisoment not exceeding six months, by
Indictment before the District Court Of
the United States for the district in which
said offense may have been committed, or
before the proper court of criminal Jurls-
diction, if committed within any one of
the organized Territories of the United
States.


SEC. s. That the strict-Attorneys,
the Marshals, their Deputies and the
Clerks of the said District and Territorial
Courts, shall be paid for their services
the like fees as may be allowed to them
for similar services in other cases, and in
all cases where the proceedings arc before
Commissioner he shall be entitled to a
fee of SO in full for his services in each
case, inclusive of all services incindent to
such arrest and examination. The per-
son or persons authorized to execute the
process to be issued by such Commls-
sioners for the arrest Of offenders against
the provisions of this act, shall be entl-
tied to a fee of S. for each person he or
they may arrest and take before any such
Commissioner as aforesaid, with such 9th
er fees as may be deemed reasonable by
such Commissioner for such other addi-
tional services as may be necessarily per-
formed by him or them-such as attend
ing at the examination, keeping the pris-
oner in custody, and providing with food
and lodgings during his detention and
until the final determination ofsuch Com
missioner, and in general for performing
such other duties as may be requled in
the premises, such fees to be made up in
conformity with the fees usually charged
by the officers of the Court OF Justice
within the proper district or county near