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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

An Act to amend and re-enact Chapter 116 of the Laws of North Dakota for the year 1929, as amended by Chapter 134 of the Laws of North Dakota for the year 1931, creating a State Superintendent of Criminal Identification, establishing who shall be superintendent thereof, fixing and defining his powers and duties, providing for the payment of his salary and expenses, and providing for the duties of sheriffs and state's attorneys in the operation thereof, repealing all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. That Chapter 116 of the Laws of North Dakota for the year 1929, as amended by Chapter 134 of the Laws of North Dakota for the year 1931, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 1. That hereafter the Superintendent of Criminal Identification shall be the Warden of the State Penitentiary, who shall serve as such superintendent without fees or salary in addition to that received as warden. He shall be allowed such additional clerical help and expenses in his said office as shall be approved by the Governor, to be paid out of the General Fund of the State.

§ 2. All equipment, letters, files and fingerprints now accumulated in the office of the Superintendent of Criminal Identification shall be by such officer turned over to the Warden of the State Penitentiary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of said "superintendent" to procure and file for record in his said office, as far as can be procured, all plates, finger prints, photographs, outline pictures, descriptions, information, and measurements, of all persons who have been arrested for felony or shall hereafter be arrested for any felony under the laws of this or other states or of the United States, and of all well-known and habitual criminals, from wherever procurable; and it shall be the duty of the person in charge of any state penal institution, state's attorney, and of every sheriff, chief of police, or other police officer, to furnish any such material to the "superintendent” upon his request.

§ 4. The "superintendent" and his assistants shall co-operate with and assist the Criminal Bureau of the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C., and all judges, state's attorneys, sheriffs, chiefs of police, and all other law enforcement officers of the state and of all other states, and of the Federal Government in the establishment of a complete system of criminal identification, and shall file for