[CHAPTER 212—1ST SESSION] [H. R. 2844] AN ACT To provide for the transportation home of persons who have been arrested and subsequently released without conviction or convicted and placed on probation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1926 (ch. 795, 44 Stat. 901 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 746)), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections: "SEC. 2. On the release from custody of any person who has been arrested on a charge of violating any law of the United States or of the Territory of Alaska, and who has not been convicted of such charge, other than a person admitted to bail, the court having jurisdiction of the trial of the case, including cases where arrests have been made and no indictment returned, in its discretion may direct the United States marshal for the district wherein he is released, pursuant to regulations that may be promulgated by the Attorney General, to furnish the person so released with transportation and subsistence to the place of his arrest or, at his election, to the place of his bona fide residence if the cost of transportation and subsistence to such place of residence is not greater than to the place of arrest.' "SEC. 3. When a court of the United States places a defendant on probation, the court may direct the United States marshal to furnish the defendant with transportation to the place to which the defendant is required to proceed under the terms of his probation and, in addition, may also direct the marshal to furnish the defendant with an amount of money, not to exceed $20, for subsistence expense to his destination. In such event, such expenses shall be paid by the marshal." Approved, June 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 283-18T SESSION] [H. R. 3191] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to make unlawful the transportation of convict-made goods in interstate commerce, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to make unlawful the transportation of convict-made goods in interstate commerce, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, be amended by inserting after the words "Federal Government", occurring in the first proviso, the words "or the District of Columbia Government". Approved, July 9, 1941. (188) [CHAPTER 366-1ST SESSION] [S. 1261). AN ACT To provide for the punishment of persons transporting stolen cattle in interstate commerce, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the National Cattle Theft Act. SEC. 2. When used in this Act (a) The term "cattle" shall mean one or more bulls, steers, oxen, cows, heifers, or calves, or the carcass or carcasses of one or more bulls, steers, oxen, cows, heifers, or calves. (b) The term "interstate or foreign commerce" shall include transportation from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or from a foreign country to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. SEC. 3. Whoever shall transport or cause to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce any cattle, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. SEC. 4. Whoever shall receive, conceal, store, barter, buy, sell, or dispose of any cattle, moving in or constituting a part of interstate or foreign commerce, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. SEC. 5. Any person violating section 3 of this Act may be prosecuted in any district from, into, or through which such cattle has or have been transported or removed. SEC. 6. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal, modify, or amend any part of the National Stolen Property Act. Approved, August 18, 1941. [CHAPTER 388-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 3752] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes", approved April 20, 1918, as amended November 30, 1940. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act approved April 20, 1918, entitled "An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 533; U. S. C., title 50, secs. 101103), as amended by the Act approved November 30, 1940 (54 Stat. 1220; U. S. C., title 50, secs. 101-106), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4. That the words 'national-defense material', as used herein, shall include arms, armament, ammunition, livestock, stores of clothing, food, foodstuffs, fuel, supplies, munitions, and all other articles of whatever description and any part or ingredient thereof, intended for the use of the United States in connection with the national defense or for use in or in connection with the producing, manufacturing, repairing, storing, mining, extracting, distributing, loading, unloading, or transporting of any of the materials or other articles hereinbefore mentioned or any part or ingredient thereof." Approved, August 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 453-1ST SESSION] [S. 1698] AN ACT To amend the Act reorganizing the administration of Federal prisons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to reorganize the administration of Federal prisons; to authorize the Attorney General to contract for the care of United States prisons; to establish Federal jails, and for other purposes", approved May 14, 1930 (46 Stat. 326, U. S. C., title 18, sec. 753f), be, and it hereby is, amended by adding thereto the following sentence: "The authority conferred upon the Attorney General by this section shall extend to persons committed to the National Training School for Boys, by the juvenile court of the District of Columbia, as well as to those committed by any court of the United States." Approved, October 21, 1941. (191) |