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[CITE: 18USC3192]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                        CHAPTER 209--EXTRADITION
 
Sec. 3192. Protection of accused

    Whenever any person is delivered by any foreign government to an 
agent of the United States, for the purpose of being brought within the 
United States and tried for any offense of which he is duly accused, the 
President shall have power to take all necessary measures for the 
transportation and safekeeping of such accused person, and for his 
security against lawless violence, until the final conclusion of his 
trial for the offenses specified in the warrant of extradition, and 
until his final discharge from custody or imprisonment for or on account 
of such offenses, and for a reasonable time thereafter, and may employ 
such portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the 
militia thereof, as may be necessary for the safe-keeping and protection 
of the accused.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 825.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 659 (R.S. Sec. 5275).
    Words ``crimes or'' before ``offenses'' were omitted as unnecessary.