1532 ARTICLE 42.

An. Code, sec. 22. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 22.

23. (Definition of Terms.) The terms " flight" and " fled " as used
in this sub-title, shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary
departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings herein-
after 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 sub-title 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 sub-title to or from the District of Columbia, the words " executive
authority," " Governor " and " Chief Magistrate " respectively shall in-
clude a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and
other authority.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 23.

24. (Persons Subject to the Sub-title.) A person alleged to be of un-
sound 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 in-
stitution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or

(b) He had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be
of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect,
and the control of his person having been acquired by a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction of the State from which he fled; or

(c) He was subject to detention in such State, being then his legal domi-
cile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal pro-
ceedings there spending to have him declared of unsound mind; shall, on
demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be de-
livered up to be removed thereto.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 24.

25. (Procedure.) Whenever the executive authority of any State de-
mands of the executive authority of this State, any fugitive within the
purview of Section 24 and produces a copy of the commitment, decree or
other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the Gov-
ernor or Chief Magistrate of the State whence the person so charged has
fled, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing the person to be
such a fugitive, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of this State
to cause him to be apprehended and secured, if found in this State, and to
cause immediate notice of the apprehension to be given to the executive
authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority ap-
pointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to
such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within thirty
days from the time of the apprehension, the fugitive may be discharged.