1124
July 26, 1939
[H. R . 5781]
[Public, No. 232]
Mobile Bay.
Time extended for
bridging, Cedar Point
to Dauphin Island,
Ala.
44 Stat. 1242.
52 Stat. 682.
Amendment.
July 26, 1939
[H. R. 6876]
[Public, No. 233]
District of Colum-
bia.
Uniform Act on
Fresh Pursuit.
Arrests in District
by officers of other
States.
Court, etc., hearing.
Commitment pend-
ing extradition if ar-
rest deemed lawful.
Discharge if deter-
mined unlawful.
Construction of sec-
tion 1.
" Fresh pursuit",
term defined.
PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 374, 375-JULY 26, 1939
[CHAPTER 374]
AN ACT
[53 STAT.
To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge
and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point
and Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for
commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and cause-
way between the mainland at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin
Island, Alabama, heretofore authorized to be built by Dauphin
Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors and assigns
(Alabama Bridge Commission, an agency of the State of Alabama,
transferee), as last extended by Public Law Numbered 605, Seventy-
fifth Congress, approved June 14, 1938, are hereby further extended
one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval of
this Act.
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby
expressly reserved.
Approved, July 26, 1939.
[CHAPTER 375]
AN ACT
To make uniform in the District of Columbia the law on fresh pursuit and to
authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to cooperate with the
States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That any member
of a duly organized State, county, or municipal peace unit of any
State of the United States who enters the District of Columbia in
fresh pursuit and continues within the said District in such fresh
pursuit of a person in order to arrest him on the ground that he is
believed to have committed a felony in such State shall have the
same authority to arrest and hold such person in custody as has any
member of any duly organized peace unit of the said District to
arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he is believed
to have committed a felony in the said District.
SEC. 2 . If an arrest is made in the District of Columbia by an
officer of another State in accordance with the provisions of section
1 of this Act, he shall without unnecessary delay take the person
arrested before a judge of the police court of the District of Colum-
bia, or a United States commissioner for the District of Columbia,
who shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of determining the law-
fulness of the arrest. If the judge of the police court of the District
of Columbia or the United States commissioner before whom the
hearing is conducted determines that the arrest was lawful, he shall
commit the person arrested to await for a reasonable time the issu-
ance of an extradition warrant by the chief justice of the District
Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. If the
judge of the police court or the United States commissioner for the
District of Columbia, before whom the hearing is held, determines
that the arrest was unlawful he shall discharge the person arrested.
SEC. 3 . Section 1 of this Act shall not be construed so as to make
unlawful any arrest in this District which would be otherwise lawful.
SEC. 4. The term "fresh pursuit" used in this Act shall include
fresh pursuit as defined by the common law, also the pursuit of a
person who has committed a felony or one whom the pursuing officer
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