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 CONSTITUTION 451 Art. 136 Any delinquent in flagrante delicto may be arrested without an or- der, and by any person, but for the sole purpose of conducting him before a compStent judge. Art. 137 No one can be kept imprisoned or detained, except in his own house, or public places designed for that purpose. Art. 138 OfiScials having charge of prisons can not receive into them prison- ers without copying into their register the order for the arrest issued by the authority having the right of making arrests. They may, how- ever, receive into the precincts of the prison, as under detention, such persons as may be brought there for the purpose of being presented to the competent judge; but they must report to such judge within twenty-four hours. Art. 139 If under any circumstances the public authority shall cause the ar- rest of any inhabitant of the Republic, the officer ordering such arrest shall, within twenty-four hours, give notice to the proper judge, and arraign the person arrested for his disposal. Art. 140 No magistrate having jurisdiction over a house of detention can be prevented or hindered from visiting a prisoner confined in it. Art. 141 This magistrate shall, if the prisoner so request, transmit to the proper judge a copy of the order of arrest given to the accused; or de- maud that such copy be given him; or himself give a certificate of the imprisonment of the person, if at the time of his arrest no copy of said order was given him. Art. 142 When a sufficient bond has been given for the person or for indem- nification for the act, in the form prescribed by law for the particular case, no one not amenable to a severe or infamous penalty can be kept in prison, or under restraint. Art. 143 Any individual imprisoned or detained illegally through infraction of the provisions of Articles 135, 137, 138 and 139, may, either by himself or by any one acting in his name, have recourse to the magis-