UNIFORM EXTRADITION ACT Under a resolution adopted by the Conference October 14, 1914, a Special Committee on a Uniform Law for the Extradition of Lunatics was appointed, to consider the question of providing by Uniform State Statute for the return upon gubernational requisition of lunatics who may flee or have been removed from the state of their residence. The Committee submitted an Act at the Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 10-16, 1915. This Act was re-committed for further consideration. At the Seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the Conference, held in Chicago, Ill., August 23-29, 1916, the present Act was submitted. This Act was adopted, approved and recommended to the various legislations for enactment into law. UNIFORM EXTRADITION ACT SECTION 1. Name of the Act. 2. Definition of Terms. 3. Persons Subject to the Act. 4. Procedure. 5. Limitation. 6. Interpretation. 7. Repeal. Section 1.-(Name of the Act.)-This Act may be cited as the Uniform Act for Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind. flight Section 2.-(Definition of Terms.)-The terms and "fled" as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding, impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if he then was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word "state" wherever used in this Act shall include states, territories, districts and insular and other possessions of the United States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview of this Act to or from the District of Columbia, the words "executive authority," "Governor" and "Chief Magistrate" respectively shall include a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and other authority. Section 3.-(Persons Subject to the Act.)-A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this state, who has fled from another state, in which at the time of his flight: (a) He was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or (b) He had been theretofore determined by legal proceeedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and |