Pennsylvania Act 1899-12 — JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT

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AN ACT

Providing for the admission of juvenile delinquents, convicted in the United States courts in this Commonwealth, in reform institutions in this Commonwealth, and providing for the payment of the cost of their maintenance.

Section 1. Juveniles convicted in federal courts to be admitted to state reform institutions

All jailers, prisonkeepers, wardens, managers, and their and each and every of their deputies, having control or charge of any reformatory, house of refuge, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, now in existence or hereafter to be created within this Commonwealth, be and the same are hereby empowered and directed to receive into such reformatory, house of correction, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, all persons convicted and sentenced by any circuit or district court of the United States in and for the Eastern and WEstern districts of Pennsylvania of any criminal offense, when by virtue of the laws of this commonwealth they are now empowered or directed, or may hereafter be empowered or directed, to receive juvenile delinquents or convicts convicted and sentenced in courts of oyer and terminer or quarter sessions of the peace in and for this Commonwealth, or committed to any such reform institution by a magistrate, alderman, or justice of the peace, or other judicial officer of this commonwealth having power to so commit: Provided, That no such convict shall be so admitted unless residing within this commonwealth. 1899, March 22, P.L. 15, Sec. 1.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.

Section 2. Cost of support and maintenance to be paid by the United States

The cost for the support and maintenance of each convict, admitted into any such reform institution under the provision of this act, shall be paid for by the United States in the same manner as the United States now pays or may hereafter pay for the support and maintenance of persons convicted in the circuit and district courts of the United States in and for the Eastern and Western districts of Pennsylvania, and sentenced and committed to county jails or State Penitentiaries in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. 1899, march 22, P.L. 15, Sec. 2.