apparatus fitted or intended to be used, or that shall have been used, in the making of any of such counterfeit obligation or other security or coins herein before mentioned, that shall be found in the possession of any person without authority from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer to have the same, shall be taken possession of by any authorized agent of the Treasury Department and forfeited to the United States, and disposed of in any manner the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. Whoever having the custody or control of any such counterfeits, material, or apparatus shall fail or refuse to surrender possession thereof upon request by any such authorized agent of the Treasury Department, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Issue of search warrants in certain cases for suspected counter for rities, or coin, or ma- L., 743, c. 127, 8. 5; 1 10 Feb., 1891, 26 Stat. SEC. 173. The several judges of courts established under the laws of the United feit obligations, secuStates and United States commissioners may upon proper oath or affirmation, within their respective jurisdictions, issue a search warrant authorizing any marshal of the United States, or any other person specially mentioned in such warrant, to enter any house, store, building, boat, or other place named in such warrant, in which there shall appear probable cause for believing that the manufacture of counterfeit money, or the concealment of counterfeit money, or the manufacture or concealment of counterfeit obligations or coins of the United States or of any foreign government, or the manufacture or concealment of dies, hubs, molds, plates, or other things fitted or intended to be used for the manufacture of counterfeit money, coins, or obligations of the United States or of any foreign government, or of any bank doing business under the authority of the United States or of any State or Territory thereof, or of any bank doing business under the authority of any foreign government, or of any political division of any foreign government, is being carried on or practiced, and there search for any such counterfeit money, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things, and for any such obligations, and if any such be found, to seize and secure the same and to make return thereof to the proper authority; and all such coun terfeit money, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things, and all such counterfeit obligations so seized shall be forfeited to the United States. Circulating bills of expired corporations. R. S., s. 5437. SEC. 174. In all cases where the charter of any corporation which has been or may be created by act of Congress has expired or may hereafter expire, if any director, officer, or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, shall knowingly issue, reissue, or utter as money, or in any other way knowingly put in circulation any bill, note, check, draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such corporation whose charter has expired, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority derived therefrom, or if any person shall knowingly aid in any such act, he shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. But nothing herein shall be construed to make it unlawful for any person, not being such director, officer, or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose herein before set forth, who has received or may hereafter receive such bill, note, check, draft, or other security, bona fide and in the ordinary transactions of business, to utter as money or otherwise circulate the same. Imitating national banking notes with printed advertisements thereon. R. S., s. 5188. Fed. Rep., 699. SEC. 175. It shall not be lawful to design, engrave, print, or in any manner make or execute, or to utter, issue, distribute, circulate, or use any business or professional U. S. . Laescki, 29 card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any circulating note or other obligation or security of any banking association organized or acting under the laws of the United States which has been or may be issued under any act of Congress, or to write, print, or otherwise impress upon any such note, obligation, or security, any business or professional card, notice or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement of any matter or thing whatever. Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. national-bank note. Mutilating or defacing R. S., s. 5189. SEC. 176. Whoever shall mutilate, cut, deface, disfigure, or perforate with holes, or unite or cement together, or do any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt, issued by any national banking association, or shall cause or procure the same to be done, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued by said association, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. Imitating United States securities or print them. R. S., s. 3708. U. S. . Laescki, 29 SEC. 177. It shall not be lawful to design, engrave, print, or in any manner make ing business cards on or execute, or to utter, issue, distribute, circulate, or use, any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement, in the likeness or similitude Fed. Rep., 699. of any bond, certificate of indebtedness, certificate of deposit, coupon, United States note, Treasury note, gold certificate, silver certificate, fractional note, or other obligation or security of the United States which has been or may be issued under or authorized by any act of Congress heretofore passed or which may hereafter be passed; or to write, print, or otherwise impress upon any such instrument, obligation, or security, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement, or any matter or thing whatever. Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Notes of less than one dollar not to be issued. R. S., &. 3583. SEC. 178. No person shall make, issue, circulate, or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than one dollar, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States; and every person so offending shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. Sec. CHAPTER EIGHT. OFFENSES AGAINST THE POSTAL SERVICE. 179. Conducting post-office without authority. 180. Illegal carrying of mail by carriers and others. 181. Conveyance of mail by private express forbidden. 182. Transporting persons unlawfully conveying mail. 183. Sending letters by private express. 184. Conveying of letters over post routes. 185. Carrying letters out of the mail on board of vessel. 186. When conveying letters by private persons is lawful. 187. Wearing uniform of carrier without authority 188. Vehicles, etc., claiming to be mail carriers. 189. Injuring mail bags, etc. 190. Stealing post-office property. 191. Stealing or forging mail locks or keys. 192. Breaking into and entering post-office. 193. Unlawfully entering postal car, etc. 194. Stealing, secreting, embezzlement, etc., mail matter or contents. 195. Postmaster or employee of postal service detaining, destroying, or embezzling letter, etc. 196. Postmaster, etc., detaining or destroying newspapers. 197. Assaulting mail carrier with intent to rob, and robbing mail. 198. Injuring letter boxes or mail matter; assaulting carrier, etc. 199. Deserting the mail. 200. Delivery of letters by master of vessel. 201. Obstructing the mail. 202. Ferryman delaying the mail. 203. Letters carried in a foreign vessel to be deposited in a post-office. Sec. 204. Vessels to deliver letters at post-office; oath. 205. Using, selling, etc., canceled stamps; removing cancellation marks from stamps, etc. 206. False returns to increase compensation. 207. Collection of unlawful postage forbidden. 208. Unlawful pledging or sale of stamps. 209. Failure to account for postage and to cancel stamps, etc., by officials. 210. Issuing money order without payment. 211. Obscene, etc., matter nonmailable. 212. Libelous and indecent wrappers and envelopes. 213. Lottery, gift enterprise, etc., circulars, etc., not mailable. 214. Postmasters not to be lottery agents. 215. Use of mails to promote frauds. 216. Fraudulently assuming fictitious address. 217. Poisons and explosives nonmailable. 218. Counterfeiting money orders. 219. Counterfeiting postage stamps. 220. Counterfeiting, etc., foreign stamps. 221. Inclosing higher class in lowerclass matter. 222. Postmaster illegally approving bond, etc. 223. False evidence as to secondclass matter. 224. Inducing or prosecuting false claims. 225. Missappropriation of postal funds or property. 226. Employees not to become interested in contracts. 227. Fraudulent use of official envelopes. 228. Fraudulent increase of weight of mail. 229. Offenses against foreign mail in transit. 230. Omission to take oath. 231. Definitions. Conducting post-office R. S., s. 3829. SEC. 179. Whoever, without authority with authority." from the Postmaster-General, shall set up or profess to keep any office or place of business bearing the sign, name, or title of post-office, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Illegal carrying by carriers and others. R. S., s. 3981. 4 A. G., 276; Op. A. G. McVeagh, June SEC. 180. Whoever, being concerned in carrying the mail, shall collect, receive, or carry any letter or packet, or cause or procure the same to be done, contrary to law, 29, 1881. shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Conveyance of mail bidden. R. S., s. 3982. 3 Mar., 1879, 20 Stat. L., 356, c. 180, s. 1; 1 Supp., 245. 1 Mar., 1884, 23 Stat. U. S. . Bromley, 12 L., 3, c. 9; 1 Supp., 423 U. S. . Gray, 3 Hag, Cas., 18; U. S. v. Hall, 9 Am. L. Reg., 232, 26 Fed. Cas., 75; U. S. 1. SEC. 181. Whoever shall establish any by private express forprivate express for the conveyance of letters or packets, or in any manner cause or provide for the conveyance of the same by regular trips or at stated periods over any post route which is or may be established by law, or from any city, town, or place, to any other city, town, or place, between which the mail is regularly carried, or whoever shall aid or assist therein shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not than six months, or both: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any person from receiving and delivering to the nearest postoffice, postal car, or other authorized depository for mail matter, any mail matter properly stamped. more Kimball, 7 Law Rep., 32. Kochersparger, 9 Am. L. Fed. Cas., 588; U. S. 1. N. Y. Leg. Obs., 143, 27 Thompson, 9 Law Rep., U. S. v. Express Co., 5 Biss., 91, 28 Fed. Cas., ham, 16 Fed. Rep., 609; Rep., 609; 4 A. G. Op. 352; Blackham . Gres U. S. v. Easson, 18 Fed. 349; 14 A. G. Op., 152; 19 A. G. Op., 670. Transporting persons the owner, unlawfully conveying mail. R. S., s. 3983. SEC. 182. Whoever, being driver, conductor, master, or other person having charge of any stagecoach, railway car, steamboat, or other vehicle or vessel, shall knowingly convey or knowingly permit the conveyance of any person acting or employed as a private express for the conveyance of letters or packets, and actually in possession of the same for the purpose of conveying them, contrary to law, shall be fined not more than one hundred and fifty dollars. |