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     629.27 Governor may appoint agent. 

    In every case authorized by the Constitution and laws of 
 the United States, the governor may appoint an agent, who shall 
 be the sheriff of the county from which the application for 
 extradition shall come, when the sheriff can act, to demand of 
 the executive authority of any state or territory any fugitive 
 from justice or any person charged with a felony or other crime 
 in this state; and when an application shall be made to the 
 governor for that purpose, the attorney general, when so 
 required by the governor, shall forthwith investigate or cause 
 to be investigated by any county attorney the grounds of such 
 application, and report to the governor all material 
 circumstances which shall come to the attorney general's 
 knowledge, with an abstract of the evidence, and an opinion as 
 to the expediency of the demand.  The accounts of agents so 
 appointed shall in each case be audited by the county board of 
 the county wherein the crime upon which extradition proceedings 
 are based shall be alleged to have been committed, and every 
 such agent shall receive from the treasury of such county $4 for 
 each calendar day, and the necessary expenses incurred by the 
 agent in the performance of such duties.  

    HIST: (10547-38) 1939 c 240 s 28; 1985 c 265 art 10 s 1; 1986 
 c 444 

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