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Canal Zone and the Philippine Islands, demands any American citizen or national as a fugitive from justice who has fled to the jurisdiction of any officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority in any country in which the United States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State, Territory, District, or possession of the United States, charging the fugitive so demanded with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the Governor, chief magistrate, or other person authorized to act as such from whence the fugitive so charged has fled, it shall be the duty of the officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority to whom the demand has been made to cause such fugitive to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authorities making such demand, or to 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. If no such agent shall appear within three months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. All costs or expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting such fugitive to the State, Territory, District or possession of the United States, including the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippine Islands, shall be paid by the executive authority making such demand. The agent who receives the fugitive into his custody shall be empowered to transport him to the jurisdiction from which he has fled, and every person who, by force, sets at liberty or rescues the fugitive from such agent while so transporting him shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year.

SEC. 3. Whenever, under this Act, it is desired to obtain the provisional arrest and detention of a fugitive in advance of the presentation of the formal proofs, such detention may be obtained by telegraph upon the request of the authority competent to request the surrender of such fugitive addressed to the authority competent to grant such surrender: Provided, That such request for provisional arrest and detention be accompanied by an express statement that a warrant for the fugitive's arrest has been issued within the jurisdiction of the authority making such request charging the fugitive with the commission of the crime for which his extradition is sought to be obtained: Provided further, That in the case of a request so made by a State, Territory, District, or possession, the expenses of obtaining a fugitive upon telegraphic request shall be borne by such State, Territory, District, or possession: And provided further, That no person shall be held in custody under telegraphic request by virtue of the provisions of this section for more than ninety days.

SEO. 4. The provisions of section 244 of title 18 of the United States Code are hereby made applicable to proceedings in extradition instituted in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(H.R. 7748]

AN ACT

Regulating procedure in criminal cases in the courts of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no plea to abate nor motion to quash any indictment upon the ground of irregularity in the drawing or impaneling of the grand jury or upon the ground of disqualification of a grand juror shall be sustained or granted unless such plea or motion shall have been filed before, or within ten days after, the defendant filing such plea or motion is presented for arraignment; and from the time such plea or motion is filed and until the termination of the first term of said court beginning subsequent to the final judgment on such plea or motion and during which a grand jury thereof shall be in session, no statute of limitations shall operate to bar another indictment of any defendant filing such plea or motion, or of any other defendant or defendants included in the indictment to which such plea or motion is directed, for the offense or offenses therein charged.

SEO. 2. No plea to abate nor motion to quash any indictment, upon the ground that one or more unqualified persons served upon the grand jury finding such indictment, shall be sustained if it appears that twelve or more jurors, after deducting the number so disqualified, concurred in the finding of said indictment: Provided, however, That no juror shall be permitted to testify, in this connection, as to whether he or any other individual juror voted for or against the finding of such indictment, but it shall be the duty of the foreman of each grand jury to keep a record of the number of grand jurors concurring in the finding of any indictment and to file such record with the clerk of the court at the time the indictment is returned. Such record shall not be made public except on order of the court.

SEO. 3. That this Act shall be applicable to the district courts of the United States, including the district courts of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Approved, April 30, 1934.

[S. 2460]

AN ACT

To limit the operation of statutes of limitations in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever an indictment is found defective or insufficient for any cause, after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned at any time during the next succeeding term of court following such finding, during which a grand jury thereof shall be in session.

SEC. 2. Whenever an indictment is found defective or insufficient for any cause, before the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, and such period will expire before the end of the next regular term of the court to which such indictment was returned, a new indictment may be returned not later than the end of the next succeeding term of such court, regular or special, following the term at which such indictment was found defective or insufficient, during which a grand jury thereof shall be in session. SEC. 3. In the event of reindictment under the provisions of this Act the defense of the statute of limitations shall not prevail against the new indictment, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any indictment against which the statute of limitations has run at the date of approval hereof.

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Approved, May 10, 1934.

[8. 2080]

AN ACT

To provide punishment for killing or assaulting Federal officers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever shall kill, as defined in sections 273 and 274 of the Criminal Code, any United States marshal or deputy United States marshal, special agent of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice, post-office inspector, Secret Service operative, any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, any employee of any United States penal or correctional institution, any officer of the customs or of the internal revenue, any immigrant inspector or any immigration patrol inspector, while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under section 275 of the Criminal Code. SEC. 2. Whoever shall forcibly resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any person designated in section 1 hereof while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or shall assault him on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and whoever, in the commission of any of the acts described in this section, shall use a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Approved, May 18, 1934.

[8. 2249]

AN ACT

Applying the powers of the Federal Government, under the commerce clause of the Constitution, to extortion by means of telephone, telegraph, radio, oral message, or otherwise.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation any money or other thing of value, shall transmit in interstate commerce, by any means whatsoever, any threat (1) to injure the person, property, or reputation of any person, or the reputation of a deceased person, or (2) to kidnap any person, or (3) to accuse any person of a crime, or (4) containing any demand or request for a ransom or reward for the release of any kidnaped person, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both: Provided, That the term "interstate commerce "shall include communication from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia: Provided further, That nothing herein shall amend or repeal section 338a, title 18, United States Code (47 Stat. 649).

Approved, May 18, 1934.

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