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1 Criminal and Penal Laws Relating to Alaska, etc. 1 (1898)

handle is hein.prescomm/cladplls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 55TH CONGRESS,              SENATE.                DOCUMENT
2d Session.                                   V   No. 00.
CRIMINAL AND PENAL LAWS RELATING TO ALASKA, ETC.
LETTER
FROM
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
TRANSMITTING
A SPECIAL REPORT MADE BY THE COMMISSION TO REVISE
AND CODIFY THE CRIMINAL AND PENAL LAWS OF THE
UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL AND PENAL
LAWS RELATING TO THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA, ETC.
JANuARY 14, 1898.-Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be
printed.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D. C., January 12, 1898.
SIR: I send you herewith a special report made by the Commission
to Revise and Codify the Criminal and Penal Laws of the United
States concerning the criminal and penal laws relating to the District
of Alaska; also a code of criminal procedure for that district in the
form of a bill which accompanied the report of the commission.
Respectfully,
JOsEPH MCKENNA,
Attorney-General
The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 12, 1898.
SR: The law under which the undersigned were appointed commis-
sioners to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United
States provides that they shall report the result of their labors to the
Attorney-General when completed, to be by him laid before Congress,
and shall make such other reports during the progress of their work as
they may see fit to the Attorney-General, to be by him laid before
Congress at his discretion.