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On the recordJuly 29, 1909
Whenever any convict is or has been committed under several convictions, with separate sentences, they shall be construed as one continuous sentence, in the granting or forfeiting of diminution of sentence.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Executive Order 1116—Providing for Diminution of Time from Sentences of Certain Convicts in the Canal Zone

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