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Credit to officers for

10 Aug., 1846,

vol. 9, p. 107.

tered bonds to be similar in all respects to the registered bonds issued under the acts authorizing the issue of the coupon-bonds offered for exchange.

SEC. 3707. When any officer or agent duly authorized stolen notes. to receive, redeem, or cancel any Treasury notes issued by ch. 180, sec. 2, authority of law, shall receive, or pay, any Treasury note which has been previously received or redeemed by any officer or agent having authority to receive or redeem such note, and which has subsequently thereto been purloined and put into circulation, the Secretary of the Treasury, upon full and satisfactory proof that the same has been received or paid in good faith, and in the exercise of ordinary prudence, may allow a credit for the amount of such note, to the officer or agent so receiving or paying the

Imitating securities or

tisements

same.

Section 3708, as codified in section 177 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1122):

It shall not be lawful to design, engrave, print, or in printing adver- any manner make or execute, or to utter, issue, distribute, thereon. circulate, or use, any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement, in the likeness or similitude 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 of any matter or thing Punishment whatever. Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Duties and SEC. 5153. All national banking associations, desigassociationsnated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury, nated as depos- shall be depositaries of public money, except receipts from lic moneys. customs, under such regulations as may be prescribed by ch. 106, sec. 45, the Secretary; and they may also be employed as financial

for.

liabilities of

when desig

itaries of pub

3 June, 1864,

v. 13, p. 113.

agents of the Government; and they shall perform all such reasonable duties, as depositaries of public moneys. and financial agents of the Government, as may be required of them. The Secretary of the Treasury shall require the associations thus designated to give satisfactory security, by the deposit of United States bonds and other

wise, for the safe-keeping and prompt payment of the public money deposited with them, and for the faithful performance of their duties as financial agents of the Government. And every association so designated as receiver or depositary of the public money shall take and receive at par all of the national currency bills, by whatever association issued, which have been paid into the Government for internal revenue, or for loans or stocks. (See secs. 3639-3649, 5489.)

SEC. 5158. The term "United States bonds," as used, United States throughout this chapter, shall be construed to mean registered bonds of the United States.

bonds defined. June 3, 1864, c. 106, s. 4, v. 13, p. 100.

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Mar. 3, 1873,

17, p. 508.

SEC. 5260. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed, Secretary of to withhold all payments to any railroad company and withhold payits assigns, on account of freights or transportation over tain railroads. their respective roads of any kind, to the amount of c. 226, s. 2, v. payments made by the United States for interest upon June 22, 1874, bonds of the United States issued to any such company, p. 200. and which shall not have been re-imbursed, together with the five per centum of net earnings due and unapplied, as provided by law.

SEC. 5413, as codified in section 147 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1115):

c. 414, v. 18,

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United " defined.

The words "obligation or other security of the United "Obligation States" shall be held to mean all bonds, certificates of curity of the indebtedness, national-bank currency, coupons, United States States notes, Treasury notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, fractional notes, certificates of deposit, bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States, stamps and other representatives of value, of whatever denomination, which have been or may be issued under any act of Congress.

Section 5414, as codified in section 148 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1115):

counterfeiting

Whoever, with intent to defraud, shall falsely make, Forging or forge, counterfeit, or alter any obligation or other security securities. of the United States shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than fifteen

years.

Section 5415, as codified in section 149 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1115):

Counterfelt

Whosoever shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or ing nationalcause or procure to be made, forged, or counterfeited, or bank notes.

shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any note in imitation of, or purporting to be in imitation of, the circulating notes issued by any banking association now or hereafter authorized and acting under the laws of the United States; or whoever shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, any false, forged, or counterfeited note, purporting to be issued by any such association doing a banking business, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited; or whoever shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely altering, any such circulating notes, or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish as true, any falsely altered or spurious circulating note issued, or purporting to have been issued, by any such banking association, knowing the same to be falsely altered or spurious, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than fifteen years.

Section 5430, as codified in section 150 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1116):

Using plates Whoever, having control, custody, or possession of any to print notes, without author plate, stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, from

ity, etc.

which has been printed, or which may be prepared by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of printing, any obligation or other security of the United States, shall use such plate, stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, or knowingly suffer the same to be used for the purpose of printing any such or similar obligation or other security, or any part thereof, except as may be printed for the use of the United States by order of the proper officer thereof; or whoever by any way, art, or means shall make or execute, or cause or procure to be made or executed, or shall assist in making or executing any plate, stone, or other thing in the likeness of any plate designated for the printing of such obligation or other security; or whoever shall sell any such plate, stone, or other thing, or bring into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, from any foreign place, any such plate, stone, or other thing, except under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer, or with any other intent, in either case, than that such plate, stone, or other thing be used for the printing of the obligations or other securities of

the United States; or whoever shall have in his control, custody, or possession any plate, stone, or other thing in any manner made after or in the similitude of any plate, stone, or other thing, from which any such obligation or other security has been printed, with intent to use such plate, stone, or other thing, or to suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any such obligation or other security, or any part thereof; or whoever shall have in his possession or custody, except under authority from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer, any obligation or other security made or executed, in whole or in part, after the similitude of any obligation or other security issued under the authority of the United States, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same; or whoever shall print, photograph, or in any other manner make or execute, or cause to be printed, photographed, made, or executed, or shall aid in printing, photographing, making, or executing any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such obligation or other other security, or any part thereof, or shall sell any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression, except to the United States, or shall bring into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, from any foreign place any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression, except by direction of some proper officer of the United States;

paper without

or whoever shall have or retain in his control or pos- Distinctive session, after a distinctive paper has been adopted by the authority. Secretary of the Treasury for the obligations and other securities of the United States, any similar paper adapted to the making of any such obligation or other security, except under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or some other proper officer of the United States, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than fifteen years, or both.

Section 5431, as codified in section 151 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1116):

for.

Punishment

forged obliga

Whoever, with intent to defraud, shall pass, utter, pub-, Uttering, etc., lish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or tions. shall bring into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, with intent to pass, publish, utter, or sell, or shall keep in possession or conceal with like intent, any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or

altered obligation or other security of the United States, Punishment shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than fifteen years.

for.

Taking Im

pressions of

ments, etc.

Section 5432, as codified in section 152 of the Penal Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1117):

Whoever, without authority from the United States, tools, imple-shall take, procure, or make, upon lead, foil, wax, plaster, paper, or any other substance or material, an impression, stamp, or imprint of, from, or by the use of any bedplate, bedpiece, die, roll, plate, seal, type, or other tool, implement, instrument, or thing used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping or impressing, or in making other tools, implements, instruments, or things to be used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impressing any kind or description of obligation or other security of the United States now authorized or hereafter to be authorized by the United States, or circulating note or evidence of debt of any banking assoPunishment ciation under the laws thereof, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

for.

lawful posses

Having un- Section 5433, as codified in section 153 of the Penal sion of impres Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L.,

sions.

for.

1117):

Whoever, with intent to defraud, shall have in his possession, keeping, custody, or control, without authority from the United States, any imprint, stamp, or impression, taken or made upon any substance or material whatsoever, of any tool, implement, instrument, or thing, used or fitted or intended to be used, for any of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section; or whoever, with intent to defraud, shall sell, give, or deliver Punishment any such imprint, stamp, or impression to any other person, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

counterfeit se

Dealing in Section 5434, as codified in section 154 of the Penal curities. Code of the United States, March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1117):

Whoever shall buy, sell, exchange, transfer, receive, or deliver any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation or other security of the United States, or circulating note of any banking association organized or acting under the laws thereof, which has been or

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