Volume 11 · 2
Public Law 34–IX
relating to Punishment in the Penitentiary.
Approved March 28, 1856
Statutory text
An Act
relating to Punishment in the Penitentiary.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Place of confinement for convicts where a judicial district has been or shall be divided.
That, where any judicial district, has been or may hereafter be divided, the circuit and district courts of the United States shall have power to sentence any one convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment and bard labor, to the penitentiary within the State, though it be out of the judicial district in which the conviction is had.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the said courts in the northern
Place of confinement of convicts in N. district of Ohio and N. District of Illinois.
district of Ohio, and in the northern district of Illinois, be authorized to transfer to the penitentiary of the respective States any prisoner or prisoners who may now be confined in jail in either district, whose offence by law is punishable by confinement to bard labor in the penitentiary.
Approved, .