United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 163
Chap. CLXIII.—An Act in addition to the “Act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.
Persons convicted of a criminal offence against United States to be treated as convicts of the state or territory.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any criminal convicted of any offence against the United States, shall be imprisoned, in pursuance of such conviction, and of the sentence thereupon, in the prison or penitentiary of any state or territory, such criminal shall in all respects be subject to the same discipline and treatment, as convicts sentenced by the courts of the state or territory, in which such prison or penitentiary is situated; and while so confined therein, shall also be exclusively under the control of the officers having charge of the same, under the laws of the said state or territory.
Approved, June 30, 1834.