The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912: A guide to records of the Department of Justice for the territorial period

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National Archives and Records Administration, 1993
 

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Side 42 - The act conferred no jurisdiction over felonies, but by the fifth section exclusive original jurisdiction was conferred over all offenses against the laws of the United States committed within the Indian Territory, not punishable by death or by imprisonment at hard labor.
Side 53 - That the President is hereby authorized to grant amnesty to such classes of offenders guilty of bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation, before the passage of this act, on such conditions and under such limitations as he shall think proper; but no such amnesty shall have effect unless the conditions thereof shall be complied with.
Side 45 - The Bureau of Prisons, under the direction of the Attorney General, shall — (1) have charge of the management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions; (2) provide suitable quarters and provide for the safekeeping, care, and subsistence of all persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States, or held as witnesses or otherwise...
Side 52 - I hereby direct that all warrants of pardons and commutations of sentences heretofore prepared at the Department of State on the requisition of the Attorney General, be...
Side 65 - AN ACT for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands, and to provide for the repayment of certain fees, purchase money, and commissions paid on void entries of public lands.
Side x - Administration (NARA) endeavors to keep records in the order in which they were maintained by the creating agency, in the belief that this best preserves their integrity and interrelationships.
Side 59 - All claims for property of citizens of the United States taken or destroyed by Indians belonging to any band, tribe, or nation in amity with the United States, without just cause or provocation on the part of the owner or agent in charge, and not returned or paid for.
Side 60 - March 3, 1893, and March 3, 1887, commonly known as the Bowman and Tucker Acts, and authority of section 151 of the Judicial Code of March 3, 1911. In these cases the court does not render judgment, but makes findings which it reports to Congress.
Side 51 - States, in any criminal proceeding, any person is sentenced to two kinds of punishment, the one pecuniary and the other corporal, the President shall have full discretionary power to pardon or remit, in whole or in part, either one of the two kinds, without, in any manner, impairing the legal validity of the other kind, or of any portion of either kind, not pardoned or remitted.
Side 14 - Federal penal institutions — notably the prisons that were then beginning to replace State, Territorial, and local prisons and jails as places of detention for Federal prisoners convicted of serious offenses. On October 1, 1907, an order of the Attorney General abolished the position of General Agent and divided its functions among a Chief Examiner, a Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners, and the Division of Accounts. The...

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