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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899. 1267 ment, express or implied, that such officer will give his vote, opinion, decision, or judgment in a particular manner in any matter, question, duty, cause, or proceeding which then is or may by law come or be brought before such officer, or with the understanding or agreement that such officer will in his official capacity act in a particular manner, or so as to produce or prevent any particular result, such officer, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than fifteen years. _ Sec. 95. That every person authorized to act as a judge in a court of u,·{,“di°}P1°*H°°*»d¤¤- justice; every person summoned as a juror in any court of justice, or °n°` upon any inquest, or before any officer, from the time he is so summoned; and every referee, umpire, or arbitrator, from the time of his appointment, shall be held and deemed to be a judicial officer within the meaning of sections ninety-three and niuety-four, and for the purposes therein expressed. Sec. 96. That every officer of said District, or of any county, town, _,°§¤t>g¤¤v¢;,¤ffi¤¤r. on: other municipal or public corporation therein, not included in the m 1°°°` definition of judicial officers, as defined in section ninety-five, from the time of his election or appointment, shall be held and deemed to be an executive officer within the meaning of sections ninety-three and ninety-four, and for the purposes therein expressed. * Sec. 97. That if any person shall convey into or about the yard or frggdfgsgg zjclm grounds of any penitentiary. jail, house of correction, or other place conuuemm. whatever for the confinement of persons upon any warrant, order, or other legal process, any disguise, material, instrument, tool, weapon, or other thing adapted to or useful in aiding any person or prisoner there committed or detained to escape, with intent to effect or facilitate the escape of such person or prisoner, or shall by any means whatever aid or assist any such person or prisoner in an attempt to escape, whether such escape be effected or attempted or not, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as in the following section rovided. P Sec. 98. That if the person whose escape was attempted or effected ofS¤¤°· v¤¤i¤¤¤<>¤* was committed or detained upon a charge or conviction of a crime pun- ` ishable with death or imprisonment for life, the punishment therefor shall be imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten nor more than twenty years; but if the person whose escape was attempted or effected was committed or detained upon a charge or conviction of a crime not so punishable, the punishment therefor shall be the same as that provided by law for the crime with which such person was charged or convicted; and in case the person whose escape was intended or effected was in custody or confinement upon civil process, or otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of crime, the punishment therefor shall be imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or a flue not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Sec. 99. That if any United States marshal, deputy marshal, jailer, e_Q,j**¤¤;r¤¤;*Qg¤y,g is or other officer shall voluntarily or through negligence suffer any per- réptlft p§»J3 gimson or prisoner committqd E0 or.in hés custody to escape, or shall {wp]. “““°" '° bm °“°*°‘*Y· fully refuse to receive in o is custo y any person or prisoner aw u ly committed thereto, such United States marshal, deputy marshal jailer, or other officer, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment not less than one year nor more than five years, and by a iine not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars. Sec. 100. That if any person shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, any liescue or nam; prisoner from any officer orperson having the lawful custody of such ,P§,‘§’,{'§',‘{,§%$f °‘°°*’° prisoner, (gr shall aldigf BSS1st any p;1S0llBI‘ 2; 6?C2.[g1I;g orgbalttempting to esca e rom any officer or person aving e aw cus y o suc prisonelf, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year.