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1308 FIFTYJIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899. same manner and under the same regulations as from the circuit and _ district courts of the United States, under the Acts of Congress now in force or that may be hereafter enacted. ` CHAPTER TWENTYJPWO. OF BAIL. Sec. Sec. 203. Admission to bail defined. ! 216. Bail, how put in and form of under- 204. Taking bail defined. I taking. 205. When defendant can not be admitted · 217. Undertaking, how executed. to bail. I 218. Qualifications of bail. 206. When defendant admitted to bail 219. Bail must justify. before conviction, as a matter of 220. Bail must be examined as to sutliright. ciency. 207. When defendant may be admitted to 221. Other testimony may be received as bail after conviction and during to the sudiciency of `bail. examination. 222. Decision upon a sufficiency of bail, 208. Who may admit to bail. and filing the papers. 209. When only admitted to bail by court 223. Discharge of defendant on allowor jud e where action is pending. ance of bail. 210. Order (gr admission to bail, how 224. Form of ball on appeal. made. 225. Proceeding when bail disallowed. 211. Application when denied can not he 226. Application to take bail or he admitmade to another magistrate. ted to bail, district attorney may 212. Admission to bail in such cases may _ appear. be revoked or vacated. 227. When court or magistrate may re- 213. When defendant may appeal from quire notice of application to be decision denying ap lication. given to district attorney. 214. Manner of taking sudh appeal. 228. Bail may be taken with or without 215. Decision of court on appeal final. notice to the district attorney. sumsmtm a tm Sec. 203. That admission to bail is the order of a competent court or ‘*°°“°°‘ magistrate that the defendant be discharged from actual custody upon bail.

  • crsungmnkasma. Sec. 204. That the taking of bail consists in the acceptance by a

competent court or magistrate, of the undertaking of sufficient bail for the appearance of defendant, according to the terms of the undertaking, or that the bail will pay to the United States a specified sum of money. wml defendant, Sec. 205. That the defendant can not be admitted to bail when the f,‘f,§‘,f‘°‘“°“°“"‘°“‘° proof or presumption of his guilt is evident or strong, and when he is charged with the crime of murder in the first degree or with treason or with rape. W1¤¤¤•i<>f•>¤¤·¤¢¤d· Sec. 206. That if the char e be for an other crime than those menmined w mn term . . g Y c.,,.,-m;.,.., ., . nm. txoned m the last section, the defendant, before conviction, is entitled M ¤Y ¤S*¤°· to be admitted to bail, as a matter of right. MW? $3£;_;¤d·¤g Sec. 207, That after judgment of conviction of a crime other than mi uma conviction those mentioned in section two hundred and five of this ’l‘itle, a defend-

·,¤;¢}._d¤’*¤¤ °¤¤**¤*· ant who has appealed, and when there is a stay of proceedings and not

_ otherwise, may be admitted to bail as a matter of right; and as a matter of discretion, a defendant may be admitted to bail for his appearance from day to day before the magistrate, on the examination t of the charge, before being held to answer, or discharged. hjfhv ¤··r ¤¤¤¤¤ W Sec. 208. That a magistrate authorized to issue a warrant of arrest, ' B85FOV1d0d in sections two hundred and seventyone and two hundred an _ seventytwo of this Title, is a magistrate authorized, within his juflisdnction, to admit to bail and to take bail, except as in this chapter ot erwise provided. towpspgply $::}:1;: Sec. 209. That after an indictment is found, and upon an appeal, a ,,,,,5, ,,h,{.',, ,,,,0,, i, defendant can not be admitted to bail except by the court, or judge rw hs- thereof, where the action is pending or in which the judgment appealed from is given. mobmrhrur mzlsssiuu Sec. 210. That if an application to be admitted to bail be made to a °"‘” ”‘ court, an order must be made granting or denying it; and if it be - granted, stating the sum in which bail may be taken; but if the application be made to a magistrate, he must certify, in writing, his decision granting or denying the same, and, if he grant it, stating the sum in which bail may be taken.