30:8-2 - Federal prisoners received; subsistence and keep - New Jersey Statutes

30:8-2.  Federal prisoners received;  subsistence and keep
    Each sheriff and keeper of a jail in any county of this state shall receive  all prisoners committed to his custody by authority of the United States and  safely keep them until discharged in due course of the laws of the United  States.  Any sheriff or keeper who neglects or refuses to perform the services  and duties required of him by this section, or who offends in the premises  shall be subject to like penalties, forfeitures and actions as if such  prisoners had been committed under authority of this state.

    Each such sheriff and keeper shall, on or before the first days of April and  October, make out the names of all prisoners who, since the last settlement,  shall have been committed to his custody, under the authority of the United  States, and the time they shall have been respectively confined, with an  account of the amount thereof, at fifty cents per month for the use and keeping  of such jail, for every person so committed, together with an account of their  subsistence, at the rate established by law for state prisoners, and transmit  the same to the United States marshal for the proper district, for payment.