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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 13 — Service Courts of Friendly Foreign Forces

§ 705. Imprisonment

Statutory text

Persons sentenced to imprisonment by a service court of a friendly foreign force may be confined in disciplinary barracks, guardhouses, or other places of detention of the United States armed forces or in penitentiaries or other institutions employed by the United States for the detention or treatment of prisoners, at the expense of the state on whose behalf the prisoner is detained.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 78–326 § 5 · 58 Stat. 643

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 705

    (June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. imprisonment Persons sentenced to imprisonment by a service court of a friendly foreign force may be confined in disciplinary barracks, guardhouses, or other places of detention of the United States armed forces or in penitentiaries or other institutions employed by the United States for the detention or treatment of prisoners, at the expense of the state on whose behalf the prisoner is detained.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)

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