62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 or from any custody under or by virtue of any process issued under the laws of the United States by any court, judge, or commissioner, or from the custody of an officer or employee of the United States pursu- ant to lawful arrest, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony, or conviction of any offense, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; or if the custody or confinement is for extradition or by virtue of an arrest or charge of or for a misdemeanor, and prior to conviction, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 752. INSTIGATING OR ASSISTING ESCAPE Whoever rescues or attempts to rescue or instigates, aids or assists the escape of any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under any law of the United States, or committed to the custody of the Attorney General or to any institution by his direction, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a charge of felony, or conviction of any offense, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; or, if the custody or confinement is for extradition or by virtue of an arrest or charge of or for a misdemeanor, and prior to conviction, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 753. RESCUE TO PREVENT EXECUTION Whoever, by force, sets at liberty or rescues any person found guilty in any court of the United States of any capital crime, while going to execution or during execution, shall be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both. § 754. RESCUE OF BODY OF EXECUTED OFFENDER Whoever, by force, rescues or attempts to rescue, from the custody of any marshal or his officers, the dead body of an executed offender, while it is being conveyed to a place of dissection, as provided by section 3567 of this title, or by force rescues or attempts to rescue such PPo, p s 3. body from the place where it has been deposited for dissection in pur- suance of said section 3567, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 755. OFFICER PERMITTING ESCAPE Whoever, having in his custody any prisoner by virtue of process issued under the laws of the United States by any court, judge, or com- missioner, voluntarily suffers such prisoner to escape, shall be fined not more than $9,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; or if he negligently suffers such person to escape, he shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 756. INTERNEE OF BELLIGERENT NATION Whoever, within the jurisdiction of the United States, aids or entices any person belonging to the armed forces of a belligerent nation or faction who is interned in the United States in accordance with the law of nations, to escape or attempt to escape from the jurisdiction of the United States or from the limits of internment prescribed, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 757. PRISONERS OF WAR OR ENEMY ALIENS Whoever procures the escape of any prisoner of war held by the United States or any of its allies, or the escape of any person appre- hended or interned as an enemy alien by the United States or any of its allies, or advises, connives at, aids, or assists in such escape, or aids, relieves, transports, harbors, conceals, shelters, protects, holds corre- spondence with, gives intelligence to, or otherwise assists any such 735
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