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1789-1790 957 (1789)

handle is hein.ssl/ssde0086 and id is 1 raw text is: CH A P. CC. b.
An ACT     empowering and requiring the keepers of the  syS9*
public gaols, in the Delaware State, to receive and fafe
keep all prs/oners committed under the authority of the
United States.
W HEREAS the congress of the United States Preamble.
have recommended to the Legiflatures of the
feveral flates, to pals laws, making it expreffly the
duty of the keepers of their gaols, to receive arid
fafe keep therein, all prifoners committed underj she
authority of the United States, until they (hall be
difcharged by the due courfe of the laws thereof, un-
der the like penalties as in' the cafe of prifoners cori-
initted under the authority of fuch flates rerpedive-
ly;