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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1989. United States magistrate judges; appointment of persons to execute warrants
The district courts of the United States and the district courts
of the Territories, from time to time, shall increase the number of
United States magistrate judges, so as to afford a speedy and
convenient means for the arrest and examination of persons charged
with the crimes referred to in section 1987 of this title; and such
magistrate judges are authorized and required to exercise all the
powers and duties conferred on them herein with regard to such
offenses in like manner as they are authorized by law to exercise
with regard to other offenses against the laws of the United
States. Said magistrate judges are empowered, within their
respective counties, to appoint, in writing, under their hands, one
or more suitable persons, from time to time, who shall execute all
such warrants or other process as the magistrate judges may issue
in the lawful performance of their duties, and the persons so
appointed shall have authority to summon and call to their aid the
bystanders or posse comitatus of the proper county, or such portion
of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the
militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with
which they are charged; and such warrants shall run and be executed
anywhere in the State or Territory within which they are issued.
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