Whenever and wherever authority of law exists to sentence, commit, order committed, or confine any person to or in the Jail of the District of Columbia or the Washington Asylum of said District, said authority shall be exercised by sentence, commitment, order of commitment, or confinement to or in said Washington Asylum and Jail.
(Mar. 2, 1911, 36 Stat. 1003, ch. 192.)
Prior Codifications1981 Ed., § 24-408.
1973 Ed., § 24-408.