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21. Accepting commission to serve against friendly power.

22. Enlisting in foreign service; exceptions.

23. Arming vessels against friendly powers; forfeiture of vessel.

24. Augmenting force of foreign armed vessel.

25. Organizing military expedition against friendly power.

26. Enforcement by courts; employment of land or naval forces.

27. Compelling foreign vessels to depart. 28. Bonds from armed vessels on clearing. 29. Detention by collectors of customs. 30. Construction of chapter; transient aliens; prosecutions for treason or piracy.

31. Enforcement of neutrality; withholding clearance papers from vessels.

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32. Same; detention of armed vessels. 33 Same; sending out armed vessel with intent to deliver to belligerent nation.

34. Same; statement from master that cargo will not be delivered to other vessels.

35. Same; forbidding departure of vessels.

36. Same; unlawful taking of vessel out of port.

37. Same; internment of person belonging to armed land or naval forces of belligerent nation; arrest; punishment for aiding escape.

38. Enforcement of sections 22, 25, 27, and 31 to 37 of this title.

39. Same; United States defined; jurisdiction of offenses; prior offenses; partial invalidity of provisions.

CHAPTER 3.-OFFENSES AGAINST ELECTIVE FRANCHISE AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS

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CHAPTER 4.-OFFENSES AGAINST OPERATIONS OF

GOVERNMENT

71. Making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering letters patent.

72. Making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering bonds, bids, or public records; transmitting such papers. 73. Making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering deeds or powers of attorney; transmitting such papers.

74. Possession of false papers. 75. Officer making false acknowledgments.

78 Falsely pretending to be United States officer.

77. Falsely representing to be officer, agent, or employee of United States and making arrest or search.

78. False personation of holder of public stocks or pensioner.

79. False demand on fraudulent power of attorney.

80. Presenting false claims; aiding in obtaining payment thereof.

81. False affidavit and postdating vouchers; false certificate to vouchers. 82. Purloining or stealing personal property of United States.

83. Conspiracy to defraud United States in regard to allowance or payment of false claims.

84. Unauthorized delivery of certificate, voucher, receipt, etc., for military or naval property.

85. Unauthorized delivery of money or property for military or naval service.

86 Unlawful purchase or pledge of military or naval property.

87. Embezzling arms and stores.

88. Conspiring to commit offense against United States.

89. Threats against President.

90. Interfering with delivery of príze

property.

91. Bribery of United States officer. 92. Unlawfully taking or using papers relating to claims.

23. Interested persons acting as Government agents.

94. Enticing desertion from Army ог Navy.

95. Enticing workmen from arsenals or armories.

96. Injuries to fortifications or harbor defenses; jurisdiction of offenses committed within Canal Zone or defensive sea areas.

97. Unlawfully entering military reservation, fort, or arsenal.

98. Possession or control of property or

papers in aid of foreign government designed or intended for violating penal statutes, treaty rights or obligations of United States; or rights under law of nations.

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103. Timber

depredations on public lands; rights of entrymen.

104. Same; on Indian lands or trust allotments.

105. Boxing trees for turpentine.
106. Setting tire to timber on public lands.
107. Failing to extinguish fires.
108. Fines paid into school funds.
109.

Trespassing on Bull Run National
Forest.

110. Breaking fences or driving cattle on inclosed public lands.

111. Injuring or removing survey marks. 112. Interrupting surveys.

113. Agreement to prevent bids at land sales.

114. Willful and false representations to intending purchasers of public lands.

115. Inducing conveyances by Indians of trust interests in lands. 116. Injuries to telegraph lines. 117. Counterfeiting weather forecasts. 118. Molesting Animal Industry employees; using deadly weapon. 119. Forging customs entry certificates. 120. Concealing or destroying invoices. 121. Resisting revenue officers, rescuing or destroying seized property; using deadly weapon.

122. Obstructing revenue officers by masters of vessels.

123. Falsely assuming to be revenue om

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134. Forging, etc., military bounty-land 139. Using false certificate of citizenship; citizenship blanks; denying citizenship.

warrants.

135. Forging certificates of citizenship. 136 Forging certificate of discharge from military or naval service or using such forged certificate.

137. Engraving counterfeit plates for citizenship certificates; printing;

distinctive paper.

138. False personation in procuring nat

uralization.

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178 Unlawful use of public moneys by 199. Accepting bribe by Member of Con

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232. Subornation of perjury.

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235. Destroying records by officer in charge.

233. Stealing or altering process; procur- 236. Forging or counterfeiting signature

ing false bail.

234. Destroying public records.

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CHAPTER 7.-OFFENSES AGAINST CURRENCY, COINAGE, ETC.

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829. False returns to increase compensation.

330. Collecting unlawful postage. 831. Unlawful pledging or sale of stamps; inducing purchases to increase pay. 332. Failing to account for postage due. 833. Issuing unpaid-for money orders. 334. Mailing obscene matter.

335. Mailing libelous and indecent matter on wrappers or envelopes. 836 Lottery, or gift enterprise circulars not mailable; place of trial. 337. Official acting as lottery agent. 338. Using mails to promote frauds; counterfeit money.

339. Using fraudulent fictitious address. 340. Poisons or explosives not mailable;

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packing permitted; intoxicating 354. Inducing or prosecuting false claims liquors; mailing; injurious intent.

841. Use of mails for advertisements of intoxicating liquors in prohibition States.

342. Same; ethyl alcohol for governmental purposes; wine for sacramental

purposes.

343. Certain letters or writings nonmailable; opening letters.

344. Letters or writings advocating treason declared nonmailable.

for losses.

355. Misappropriating postal funds; prima facie evidence; deposits permitted.

356. Employees interested in mail con

tracts.

357. Fraudulent use of official envelopes. 358. Fraudulently increasing weight of mail.

359. Offenses against foreign mail in transit; indictments.

845. Using or attempting to use mails 360. Omission to take oath. for transmission of matter declared

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CHAPTER 9.-OFFENSES AGAINST FOREIGN AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE

381. Violent interference with foreign

commerce.

382. Carrying explosives; on vessels or vehicles with passengers for hire; explosives permitted; restrictions; military transportation.

383. Same; regulations for transporting made by Interstate Commerce Commission; effect.

384. Same; high explosives excluded. 385. Same; marking packages.

386. Same; causing death or injury by шllegal transportation.

887. Importing lottery tickets; interstate carriage.

388. Intoxicating liquors; by interstate shipment; delivery to other than bona fide consignee.

389. Same; carrier collecting purchase price of interstate shipment. 390. Same; shipping packages in interstate commerce not plainly marked. 391. Importing injurious birds and animals; permits for foreign wild animals; specimens for museums. 392 Transportation of illegally killed game; shipments in game season; feathers of barnyard fowls.

393. Marking of packages.

894. Same; penalty.

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395. Dead bodies of game animals or game or song birds, subject to laws of State.

896. Importing and transporting obscene

books.

397. White-slave traffic; terms defined. 398. Same; transportation of woman or girl for immoral purposes, or procuring ticket.

899. Same; inducing transportation for immoral purposes.

400. Same; inducing interstate transportation of woman or girl under eighteen for immoral purposes. 401. Same; jurisdiction of prosecutions. 402. Same; (1) Prevention of transportation in foreign commerce of alien women and girls under international agreement; Commissioner General of Immigration designated as authority to receive information; duty to receive and keep statements of and pertaining to them. (2) Statement by person keeping woman or girl for immoral purposes; failure to file, making

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