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eral shall be forthwith served upon the Attorney General and upon the Board, and a copy of any such petition filed by the Attorney General shall be forthwith served upon the person with respect to whom relief is sought and upon the Board. The Board shall thereupon file in the court a duly certified transcript of the entire record of the proceedings before the Board with respect to the matter concerning which judicial review is sought, including all evidence upon which the order complained of was entered, the findings and order of the Board. In the case of a petition for enforcement, under subsection (a) of this section, the petitioner shall file with his petition a statement under oath setting forth in full the facts and circumstances upon which he relies to show the failure or refusal of the Attorney General to obey the order of the Board. Thereupon the court shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and shall have power to affirm, modify, or set aside, or to enforce or enforce as modified the order of the Board. The findings of the Board as to the facts, if supported by reliable, substantial, and probative evidence, shall be conclusive.

(d) If either party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce such evidence in the hearing before the Board or its hearing examiner the court may order such additional evidence to be taken before the Board or its hearing examiner and to be made a part of the transcript. The Board may modify its findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of additional evidence so taken and filed, and it shall file such modified or new findings, which findings with respect to questions of fact if supported by reliable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole shall be conclusive, and shall file its recommendations, if any, for the modification or setting aside of its original order. The jurisdiction of the court shall be exclusive and its judgment and decree shall be final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon writ of certiorari or certification as provided in title 28, United States Code. section 1254.

(e) The commencement of proceedings by the Attorney General for judicial review under subsection (b) of this section shall, if he so requests, operate as a stay of the Board's order.

(f) Any order of the Board shall become final

(1) upon the date of entry thereof by the Board, if such order is not subject to judicial review; or

(2) upon the expiration of the time allowed for filing a petition for review or enforcement, if such order is subject to judicial review and no such petition has been duly filed within such time;

or

(3) upon the expiration of the time allowed for filing a petition for certiorari, if such order is subject to judicial review and the order of the Board has been affirmed or the petition for review or enforcement dismissed by a United States court of appeals, and no petition for certiorari has been duly filed: or

(4) upon the denial of a petition for certiorari, if such order is

affirmed or the petition for review or enforcement dismissed by a United States court of appeals; or

(5) upon the expiration of ten days from the date of issuance of the mandate of the Supreme Court, if such order is subject to judicial review and such Court directs that the order of the Board be affirmed or that the petition for review or enforcement be dismissed.

(g) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deprive any person of any relief to which he may be entitled under the Adminis trative Procedure Act.

CRIMINAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 112. Whoever, being named in a warrant for apprehension or order of detention as one as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe that he probably will engage in, or conspire with others to engage in, espionage or sabotage, or being under confinement or detention pursuant to this title, shall resist or knowingly disregard or evade apprehension pursuant to this title or shall escape, attempt to escape or conspire with others to escape from confinement or detention ordered and instituted pursuant to this title, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. SEC. 113. Whoever knowingly

(a) advises, aids, assists, or procures the resistance, disregard, or evasion of apprehension pursuant to this title by any person named in a warrant or order of detention as one as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe that such person probably will engage in, or conspire with others to engage in espionage or sabotage; or

(b) advises, aids, assists, or procures the escape from confinement or detention pursuant to this title of any person so named; or

(c) aids. relieves, transports, harbors, conceals, shelters, protects, or otherwise assists any person so named for the purpose of the evasion of such apprehension by such person or the escape of such person from such confinement or detention; or

(d) attempts to commit or conspires with any other person to commit any act punishable under subsections (a), (b), or (c) of this section,

shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

SEC. 114. Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the Board or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

DEFINITION

SEC. 115. For the purposes of this title, the term "espionage" means any violation of sections 791 through 797 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended by this Act, and the term "sabotage" means any violation of sections 2151 through 2156 of title 18 of the United

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

SEC. 116. If any provision of this title, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remaining provisions of this title, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to suspend or to authorize the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S.

September 22, 1950.

The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H. R. 9490) entitled "An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes," returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, it was

Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.

Attest:

RALPH R ROBERTS

Clerk.

I certify that this Act originated in the House of Representatives. RALPH R ROBERTS

Clerk.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

September 23 (legislative day, September 22), 1950.

The Senate having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H. R. 9490) entitled "An Act to protect the United States against certain unAmerican and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes", returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, and passed by the House of Representatives on reconsideration of the same, it was

Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative.

Attest:

LESLIE L BIFFLE

[CHAPTER 1115-2D SESSION]

(S. 2609] AN ACT

To provide a system for the treatment and rehabilitation of youth offenders, to improve the administration of criminal justice, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4201 of title 18 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4201. Board of Parole; members; salaries.

"There is hereby created in the Department of Justice a Board of Parole to consist of eight members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The salary of each member of the Board shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and any Acts supplementary thereto or in substitution therefor. The members of the Board first appointed under this section shall be appointed for terms as follows: Two for two years, two for three years, two for four years, and two for six years, respectively, from the effective date of this section. The term of office of a successor to any member shall expire six years from the date of the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. Upon the expiration of his term of office, a member of the Board shall continue to act until his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. The Attorney General shall from time to time designate one of its members to serve as Chairman of said Board and delegate to him the necessary administrative duties and responsibilities."

SEC. 2. Part IV of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended by inserting therein a new chapter immediately after chapter 401 thereof, as follows:

"Sec.

"CHAPTER 402-FEDERAL YOUTH CORRECTIONS ACT

"5005. Youth Correction Division.

"5006. Definitions.

"5007. Duties of members; meetings.

"5008. Officers and employees.

"5009. Rules of Division.

"5010. Sentence.

"5011. Treatment.

"5012. Certificate as to availability of facilities.

"Sec.

"CHAPTER 402-FEDERAL YOUTH CORRECTIONS ACT-Continued

"5013. Provision of facilities.

"5014. Classification studies and reports.

"5015. Powers of Director as to placement of youth offenders.

"5016. Reports concerning offenders.

"5017. Release of youth offenders.

"5018. Revocation of Division orders.

*5019. Supervision of released youth offenders.

"5020. Apprehension of released offenders.

"5021. Certificate setting aside conviction.

"5022. Applicable date.

“5023. Relationship to Probation and Juvenile Delinquency Acts. "5024. Where applicable.

"SEC. 5005. Youth Correction Division.

"There is created within the Board of Parole a Youth Correction Division. The Attorney General shall from time to time designate members of the Board of Parole to serve on said Division as the work requires. The Attorney General shall from time to time designate one of the members of the Division to serve as Chairman and delegate to him such administrative duties and responsibilities as may be required to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

"SEC. 5006. Definitions.

"As used in this chapter

"(a) 'Board' means the Board of Parole;

"(b) 'Division' means the Youth Correction Division of the Board of Parole;

"(c) 'Bureau' means the Bureau of Prisons;

"(d) 'Director' means the Director of the Bureau;

"(e) "Youth offender' means a person under the age of twenty-two years at the time of conviction;

"(f) "Committed youth offender' is one committed for treatment hereunder to the custody of the Attorney General pursuant to section 5010 (b) and 5010 (c) of this chapter;

"(g) "Treatment' means corrective and preventive guidance and training designed to protect the public by correcting the antisocial tendencies of youth offenders;

"(h) "Conviction' means the judgment on a verdict or finding of guilty, a plea of guilty, or a plea of nolo contendere.

"SEC. 5007. Duties of members; meetings.

"The Division shall hold stated meetings to consider problems of treatment and correction, to consult with, and make recommendations to, the Director with respect to general treatment and correction. policies for committed youth offenders, and to enter orders directing the release of such youth offenders conditionally under supervision and the unconditional discharge of such youth offenders, and take such further action and enter such other orders as may be necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

"SEC. 5008. Officers and employees.

"The Attorney General shall appoint such supervisory and other officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes

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