                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                        CHAPTER 209--EXTRADITION
 
Sec. 3190. Evidence on hearing

    Depositions, warrants, or other papers or copies thereof offered in 
evidence upon the hearing of any extradition case shall be received and 
admitted as evidence on such hearing for all the purposes of such 
hearing if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to 
entitle them to be received for similar purposes by the tribunals of the 
foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and the 
certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular officer of the 
United States resident in such foreign country shall be proof that the 
same, so offered, are authenticated in the manner required.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 824.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 655 (R.S. Sec. 5271; Aug. 
3, 1882, ch. 378, Sec. 5, 22 Stat. 216).
    Unnecessary words were deleted.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4114 of this title.
