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72d CONGRESS . SESS. I. CH. 492 . JU LY 15, 1932 . Residential lim ita - tions. provided by law ; and the said board shall in every parole fix the limits of the residence of such person paroled, which limits, however, may be thereafter changed in the discretion of the board . Violation of Apprehens onleof SEc. 5. If said Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole, or prisoner. any member thereof, shall have reliable information that a prisoner has violated his parole, said board, or any member thereof, at any time within the term or terms of the prisoner's sentence, may issue a warrant to any officer hereinafter authorized to execute the same for the retaking of such prisoner . Any officer of the penal institution from which such prisoner shall have been paroled or any Federal officer a uthorized to serve criminal process within th e United States to whom such warrant shall be delivered is authorized and required to execute such warrant by taking such prisoner and returning him to said penal institution . hearings, et c ., bef ore SEC. 6. At the next meeting of the Board of Indeterminate Sentence boa rd,

and Parole held after the issuing of a warrant for the retaking of any paroled prisoner, said board shall be notified thereof, and if such prisoner shall have been returned to the institution, he shall be iven an oppor tunity to ap pear b efore said Bo ard of Indet ermina te entente and Parole, and the said board may then, or at any time in its discretion, revoke the order and terminate such parole or modify the terms and conditions thereof and if such order of parole be revoked and the parole so terminated the said prisoner shall serve the remainde r of the sentence originall y imposed , the une xpired term of imprisonment of any such prisoner to begin to run from the date he is returned to the institution, and time the prisoner_ was out on parole shall not be taken into account to diminish the time for which he was sentenced : Provided, That the parole board, at its discretion, may afterwards grant a new parole to said prisoner, in the event said boa rd should deem it advisable . SEC. 7. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the pro- visions of the Act are hereby repealed : Provided, however, That for any felony committed before this Act takes effect, the penalty, sentence, or forfeiture provided by law for such felony at the time such felony was committed shall remain in full force and effect and shall b e impo sed, n otwith standi ng thi s Act . SEC . 8 . Any person confined in a penal institution of the District of Columbia who escapes or attempts to escape therefrom, or any person who procures, advises, connives at, aids, or assists in such escape, or conceals any such_ prisoner after such escape, shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years, said sentence to begin, if the convicted person be an escaped prisoner, uwon the expiration of the original sentence . SEC. 9 . Upon the appointment of the members of said board, the powers of the existing parole board over prisoners confined in the penal ins titutions of the D istrict o f Columbi a shall c ease and deter- mine and all the powers of said existing parole board under the authori ty of the Ac t of C ongres s appr oved Ju ne 25, 1910, entit led "An Act to parole United States prisoners, and for other purposes," as amended, over said prisoners confined in the penal institutions Proviso ,

of the Distri ct of Columb ia sha ll be transfe rred t o and vested in Priorcommitmenttr

said Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole : Provided, how- ev er , That in the c ase of a pri soner convic ted of felony commi tted prior to the effective date of this Act, and in the case of any prisoner convicted of misdemeanor when the aggregate sentence imposed is in excess of one year, said Board of Indeterminate Sentence and. Parole Discretionar y revoea- tfon or modi fication of parole order . Original sen tence im- posed . Proviso . New parole allowed. Inconsistent laws re- pea led : Promse. Previous se ntences, etc., not affected . Penal institutions . Punishment for breaches, etc. Federal paro le board . Jurisdiction over Dis- trict prisoners trans- ferred . Vol. 36, p. 819 614 . U.6,C.,p.

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