                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
 
                     CHAPTER 301--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 4008. Transportation expenses

    Prisoners shall be transported by agents designated by the Attorney 
General or his authorized representative.
    The reasonable expense of transportation, necessary subsistence, and 
hire and transportation of guards and agents shall be paid by the 
Attorney General from such appropriation for the Department of Justice 
as he shall direct.
    Upon conviction by a consular court or court martial the prisoner 
shall be transported from the court to the place of confinement by 
agents of the Department of State, the Army, Navy, or Air Force, as the 
case may be, the expense to be paid out of the Treasury of the United 
States in the manner provided by law.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 849; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec. 61, 
63 Stat. 98.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

                            1948 Act

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 753g (May 14, 1930, ch. 
274, Sec. 8, 46 Stat. 327).
    The second paragraph was originally a proviso.
    Minor changes of phraseology were made.

                            1949 Act

    This section [section 61] corrects the third paragraph of section 
4008 of title 18, U.S.C., by redesignating the ``War Department'' as the 
``Department of the Army'', to conform to such redesignation by act of 
July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501), and by 
inserting a reference to the Department of the Air Force, in view of the 
creation of such Department by the same act.


                               Amendments

    1949--Act May 24, 1949, substituted ``the Army, Navy, or Air Force'' 
for ``War, or the Navy''.
