Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 1.djvu/843

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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 386, 387. 1910. 819 are hereb extended and made a licable to ostal sav1n` gs de ository fundg, and all statutes relati)ri)g to false iieturns of postalpand money-order_business, the forgery, counterfeiting, alteration, improper use or handling of postal and money—order blanks, forms, vouchers, accounts, and records, and the dies, plates, and engravings therefor, with the penalties lprovided in such statutes, are hereby extended and made applicab e to Hlpostal savings depository business, and the forgery, counterfeiting, teration, improper use or handling of postal savingls depository b anks, forms, vouc ers, accounts, and records, and the diesiplates, and engraving?] therefor. Szc. 16. at the faith of the nited States is olemnly pledged Sgtgggdgjd },¤;°)§ to the payment of the deposits made in postal savin . epository mem. offices, with accrued interest thereon as herein rovidecgg — . Sec. 17. That the final gudgment, order, or diecree of any court of ,,,P“,{,{’§§,'§‘°E,‘}{;‘,§$P‘Z,“§ competent jurisdiction a ju `cating any right or interest in the ¢<>¤¤· credit of anly sums deposited by any rson with a postal savings depository the same shall not have given appealed from and the time for appeal has ex ired shall, upon submission to the Postmaster- General o a copy of tli)e same, duly authenticated in the manner rovided by the laws of the United States for the authentication ofp the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory or of any possession subject to the 3-Lrisdiction of the United Statm, when the same are proved or a itted within any other court within the United States, be accepted and pursued by the board of trustees as conclusive of the title, right, interest, or possession so ad`udicated, and any payment of said sum in accordance with such order, judgment, or decree Shall operate as a full and complete discharge of the United States from t claim or demand of any person or persons to the same. Approved, June 25, 1910. mA?. 387.--An Act To parole United States prisoners, and for other purposes. Jmi§.2gi<lim` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United [Public' N°` M`] States of America in Congress assembled, That every prisoner who has $§’§}',§°{,*},,,,, Umm been or may hereafter be convicted of any offense against the United Bmw P¤¤°¤¤- States, and is confined in execution of the ]udgment of such conviction in any United States penitentiary or prison, for a definite term or terms of over one year, whose record of conduct shows he has observed <>¤¤di¤°¤· the rules of such institution, and who has served one-third of the total of the term or terms for which he was sentenced, may be released on parole as hereinafter provided. Size. 2. That the superintendent of prisons of the Department of B<>¤rd¤fx>¤r¤1e. Justice, and the warden and physician of each United tates penitentiary shall constitute a board of parole for such prison, which shall establish rules and regulations for its procedure subject to the approval of the Attorney·Genera1. The chief clerk of such prison shall e clerk °'°‘°‘·“°°"“‘“·°°°· of said board of arole, and meetings shall be he d at each rison as _ often as the regulations of Such board shall provide: Pmvui' ed, That — {;,"{,",‘,§°,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,_ in every case where a prison other than a United States penitentiary is used for the confinement of such prisoners it shall be the duty of the . Attorney-General to designate the officers of said prison who, together with the superintendent of prisons shall constitute such board for said risen. P Sno, 3. That if it shall appear to said board of parole from a report g¥;g§';';*§§‘§,g ,0 rg by the proper officers of such prison or upon alpplication by a prisoner lease. . for release on parole, that there is a reasonab e probability that such ap licant will ive and remam at libertgr without violating the laws, and if in the opinion of the board suc release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, then said board of parole may in its dis-