The director shall receive and safely keep at hard labor, in the prison, all prisoners sentenced to confinement, at hard labor herein, by the authority of the United States, until they shall be discharged agreeably to the laws of the United States.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 55-326; 1952 Code Section 55-326; 1942 Code Section 1970; 1932 Code Section 1970; Cr. C. '22 Section 954; Cr. C. '12 Section 958; Cr. C. '02 Section 672; G. S. 2721; R. S. 557; 1868 (14) 94; 1960 (51) 1917; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 397.