Depositions, warrants, or other papers or copies thereof offered in evidence upon the hearing of any extradition case shall be received and admitted as evidence on such hearing for all the purposes of such hearing if they shall be properly and legally authenticated so as to entitle them to be received for similar purposes by the tribunals of the foreign country from which the accused party shall have escaped, and the certificate of the principal diplomatic or consular officer of the United States resident in such foreign country shall be proof that the same, so offered, are authenticated in the manner required.
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Title 18— CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 3181. Scope and limitation of chapter
§ 3182. Fugitives from State or Territory to State, District, or Territory
§ 3184. Fugitives from foreign country to United States
§ 3185. Fugitives from country under control of United States into the United States
§ 3186. Secretary of State to surrender fugitive
§ 3187. Provisional arrest and detention within extraterritorial jurisdiction
§ 3188. Time of commitment pending extradition
§ 3189. Place and character of hearing
§ 3191. Witnesses for indigent fugitives
§ 3193. Receiving agent’s authority over offenders
§ 3194. Transportation of fugitive by receiving agent