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18 U.S.C. § 3194 — Transportation of fugitive by receiving agent
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Any agent appointed as provided in [section 3182 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3182&num=0&edition=prelim) who receives the fugitive into his custody is empowered to transport him to the State or Territory from which he has fled.
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Whenever the executive authority of any State or Territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any State, District, or Territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or Territory, charging the person 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 has fled, the executive authority of the State, District, or Territory to which such person has fled shall cause him to be arrested and secured, and notify the executive authority making such demand, or the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and shall cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within thirty days from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged.
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**(a)** Whoever rescues or attempts to rescue or instigates, aids or assists the escape, or attempt to escape, of any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under any law of the United States, or committed to the custody of the Attorney General or to any institution or facility by his direction, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony, or conviction of any offense, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; or, if the custody or confinement is for extradition, or for exclusion or expulsion proceedings under the immigration laws, or by virtue of an arrest or charge of or for a misdemeanor, and prior to conviction, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
**(b)** Whoever rescues or attempts to rescue or instigates, aids, or assists the escape or attempted escape of any person in the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, or of any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under any law of the United States or from any institution or facility in which he is confined by direction of the Attorney General, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of a lawful arrest for a violation of any law of the United States not punishable by death or life imprisonment and committed before such person’s eighteenth birthday, and as to whom the Attorney General has not specifically directed the institution of criminal proceedings, or by virtue of a commitment as a juvenile delinquent under [section 5034 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section5034&num=0&edition=prelim), be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 3193
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 659 (R.S. § 5275).
Words ‘‘crimes or’’ before ‘‘offenses’’ were omitted as
unnecessary.
§ 3193. Receiving agent’s authority over offenders
A duly appointed agent to receive, in behalf of
the United States, the delivery, by a foreign
government, of any person accused of crime
committed within the United States, and to con-
vey him to the place of his trial, shall have 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 the prisoner’s
safe-keeping.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 825.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 660 (R.S. § 5276).
Words ‘‘jurisdiction of the’’ were omitted in view of
the definition of United States in section 5 of this title.
Minor changes only were made in phraseology.
Executive Documents
EX. ORD. NO. 11517. ISSUANCE AND SIGNATURE BY SEC-
RETARY OF STATE OF WARRANTS APPOINTING AGENTS
TO RETURN FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE EXTRADITED TO
UNITED STATES
Ex. Ord. No. 11517, Mar. 19, 1970, 35 F.R. 4937, provided:
WHEREAS the President of the United States, under
section 3192 of Title 18, United States Code, has been
granted the power to take all necessary measures for
the transportation, safekeeping and security against
lawless violence of any person delivered by any foreign
government to an agent of the United States for return
to the United States for trial for any offense of which
he is duly accused; and
WHEREAS fugitives from justice in the United
States whose extradition from abroad has been re-
quested by the Government of the United
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