§ 3049. Warrant for removal

Statutory text

Only one writ or warrant is necessary to remove a prisoner from one district to another. One copy thereof may be delivered to the sheriff or jailer from whose custody the prisoner is taken, and another to the sheriff or jailer to whose custody he is committed, and the original writ, with the marshal’s return thereon, shall be returned to the clerk of the district to which he is removed.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1948
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3049
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 817.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 817.)

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Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 604 (R.S. § 1029).

Credits

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 817.)