etc. Gathering for enemy Plans of public de Punishment for. whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be com- in time of war, informamunicated to the enemy, shall collect, record, publish, or communi- tion of armed forces, cate, or attempt to elicit any information with respect to the movement, numbers, description, condition, or disposition of any of the armed forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of the United States, or with respect to the plans or conduct, or supposed plans or conduct fense, etc. of any naval or military operations, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for the fortification or defense of any place, or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years. Making false stateSEC. 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully ments to interfere with make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to inter-operation of national fere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies and whoever, Inciting disloyalty, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to etc. cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or of the United States, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both. etc. Obstructing enlist ments. Punishment for. Liability for conspiring to do prohibited Other punishment. SEC. 4. If two or more persons conspire to violate the provisions acts. of sections two or three of this title, and one or more of such persons does any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be punished as in said sections provided in the case of the doing of the act the accomplishment of which is the object of such conspiracy. Except as above provided conspiracies Vol. 35, p. 1096. to commit offenses under this title shall be punished as provided by section thirty-seven of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine. Punishment for con SEC. 5. Whoever harbors or conceals any person who he knows, cealing offenders, etc. or has reasonable grounds to believe or suspect, has committed, or is about to commit, an offense under this title shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Designation of other Ante, p. 218. SEC. 6. The President in time of war or in case of national prohibited places. emergency may by proclamation designate any place other than those set forth in subsection (a) of section one hereof in which anything for the use of the Army or Navy is being prepared or constructed or stored as a prohibited place for the purposes of this title: Provided, Condition determinThat he shall determine that information with respect thereto would ing. be prejudicial to the national defense. Proviso. Courts-martial, etc., 1624; pp. 230, 242, 275. SEC. 7. Nothing contained in this title shall be deemed to limit Jurisdiction not af the jurisdiction of the general courts-martial, military commissions, R. S., secs. 1342, 1343, or naval courts-martial under sections thirteen hundred and forty-vol. 39, p. 650; Vol. two, thirteen hundred and forty-three, and sixteen hundred and 35, p. 621. twenty-four of the Revised Statutes as amended. in All possessions of the States cluded. Offenses on high seas,. SEC. 8. The provisions of this title shall extend to all Territories, United possessions, and places subject to the jurisdiction of the United States whether or not contiguous thereto, and offenses under this etc." title when committed upon the high seas or elsewhere within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and outside the territorial limits thereof shall be punishable hereunder. SEC. 9. The Act entitled "An Act to prevent the disclosure of national defense secrets," approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby repealed. Former Act repealed. Vessels in United States ports, etc. Control, etc., over, in time of war, by Secre TITLE II. VESSELS IN PORTS OF THE UNITED STATES. SECTION 1. Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive tary of the Treasury. order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may inspect such vessel at any time, place Possession to prevent guards thereon, and, if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such vessels from damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take, by and with the consent of the President, for such purposes, full possession and control of such vessel and remove therefrom the officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially authorized by him to go or remain on board thereof. injury, etc. etc. Removal of crew, Control in Canal Zone waters. Forfeiture of vessel if owner refuses to obey rules, etc. Personal punish ment. Injury, etc., of vessel by owner, etc., unlawful. Within the territory and waters of the Canal Zone the Governor of the Panama Canal, with the approval of the President, shall exercise all the powers conferred by this section on the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 2. If any owner, agent, master, officer, or person in charge, or any member of the crew of any such vessel fails to comply with any regulation or rule issued or order given by the Secretary of the Treasury or the Governor of the Panama Canal under the provisions of this title, or obstructs or interferes with the exercise of any power conferred by this title, the vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and equipment, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States in the same manner as merchandise is forfeited for violation of the customs revenue laws; and the person guilty of such failure, obstruction, or interference shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for the owner or master or any other person in charge or command of any private vessel, foreign or domestic, or for any member of the crew or other person, within the territorial waters of the United States, willfully to cause or permit the Permitting use for destruction or injury of such vessel or knowingly to permit said vessel to be used as a place of resort for any person conspiring with another or preparing to commit any offense against the United States, or in violation of the treaties of the United States or of the obligations of the United States under the law of nations, or to defraud the United States, or knowingly to permit such vessels to be used in violation Seizure and forfeiture of the rights and obligations of the United States under the law of conspiracy, etc. of vessel, etc. Personal punishment. Enforcement by the President. nations; and in case such vessel shall be so used, with the knowledge of the owner or master or other person in charge or command thereof, the vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and equipment, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States in the same manner as merchandise is forfeited for violation of the customs revenue laws; and whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. SEC. 4. The President may employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of this title. . 30. . 30 TITLE III. INJURING VESSELS ENGAGED IN FOREIGN COMMERCE. Vessels in foreign commerce. Punishment for set cargo, in United States jurisdiction. Placing bombs, etc., SECTION 1. Whoever shall set fire to any vessel of foreign registry, ting fire, etc., to, or or any vessel of American registry entitled to engage in commerce with foreign nations, or to any vessel of the United States as defined in section three hundred and ten of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," or to the cargo of the same, or shall tamper with the motive power or instrumentalities of navigation of such vessel, or shall place bombs or explosives in or upon such on board. vessel, or shall do any other act to or upon such vessel while within Endangering Amerithe jurisdiction of the United States, or, if such vessel is of American can vessel, etc., on high registry, while she is on the high sea, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of the vessel or of her cargo, or of persons on board, whether the injury or danger is so intended to take place within the jurisdiction of the United States, or after the vessel shall have departed therefrom; or whoever shall attempt or conspire to do any such acts spiracies. with such intent, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. TITLE IV. INTERFERENCE WITH FOREIGN COMMERCE BY VIOLENT MEANS. seas. Attempts ог con Interfering with foreign commerce. Punishment for de SECTION 1. Whoever, with intent to prevent, interfere with, or stroying, etc., articles obstruct or attempt to prevent, interfere with, or obstruct the for export. exportation to foreign countries of articles from the United States shall injure or destroy, by fire or explosives, such articles or the places where they may be while in such foreign commerce, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. TITLE V. ENFORCEMENT OF NEUTRALITY. SECTION 1. During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation, the President, or any person thereunto authorized by him, may withhold clearance from or to any vessel, domestic or foreign, which is required by law to secure clearance before departing from port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, or, by service of formal notice upon the owner, master, or person in command or having charge of any domestic vessel not required by law to secure clearances before so departing, to forbid its departure from port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any such vessel, domestic or foreign, whether requiring clearance or not, is about to carry fuel, arms, ammunition, men, supplies, dispatches, or information to any warship, tender, or supply ship of a foreign belligerent nation in violation of the laws, treaties, or obligations of the United States under the law of nations; and it shall thereupon be unlawful for such vessel to depart. Detention of private ly nation. SEC. 2. During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation, warlike vessel to prethe President, or any person thereunto authorized by him, may detain rent use against friendany armed vessel owned wholly or in part by American citizens, or any vessel, domestic or foreign (other than one which has entered the ports of the United States as a public vessel), which is manifestly built for warlike purposes or has been converted or adapted from a private vessel to one suitable for warlike use, until the owner or nish proof of no illegal intent. Release if owner fur master, or person having charge of such vessel, shall furnish proof satisfactory to the President, or to the person duly authorized by him, that the vessel will not be employed by the said owners, or master, or person having charge thereof, to cruise against or commit or attempt to commit hostilities upon the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with which the United States is at peace, and that the said vessel will not be sold or delivered to any belligerent nation, or to an agent, officer, or citizen of such nation, by them or any of them, within the jurisdiction of the United States, or, having left that jurisdiction, upon the high seas. Sending out armed vessel for delivery to States, unlawful. SEC. 3. During a war in which the United States is a neutral belligerent nation at nation, it shall be unlawful to send out of the jurisdiction of the peace with United United States any vessel built, armed, or equipped as a vessel of war, or converted from a private vessel into a vessel of war, with any intent or under any agreement or contract, written or oral, that such vessel shall be delivered to a belligerent nation, or to an agent, officer, or citizen of such nation, or with reasonable cause to believe that the said vessel shall or will be employed in the service of any such belligerent nation after its departure from the jurisdiction of the United States. Clearances, etc. livered before depar- ture of vessels. 4200, pp. 809, 810. Additional state ments during war when United States is neu tral. Post, p. 424. SEC. 4. During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation, in addition to the facts required by sections forty-one hundred and ninety-seven, forty-one hundred and ninety-eight, and forty-two hundred of the Revised Statutes to be set out in the masters' and shippers' manifests before clearance will be issued to vessels bound to foreign ports, each of which sections of the Revised Statutes is hereby declared to be and is continued in full force and effect, every master or person having charge or command of any vessel, domestic or foreign, whether requiring clearance or not, before departure of such vessel from port shall deliver to the collector of customs for the district wherein such vessel is then located a statement duly verified by oath, that the cargo or any part of the cargo is or is not to be delivered to From master as to other vessels in port or to be transshipped on the high seas and, if it is to be so delivered or transshipped, stating the kind and quantities and the value of the total quantity of each kind of article so to be delivered or transshipped, and the name of the person, corporation, vessel, or government, to whom the delivery or transshipment is to be made; and the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo of such vessel shall in the same manner and under the same conditions deliver to the collector like statements under oath as to the cargo or the parts thereof laden or shipped by them, respectively. transshipments. From shipper, etc. Refusal of clearance, etc., if statements be lieved to be false, etc. SEC. 5. Whenever it appears that the vessel is not entitled to clearance or whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that the additional statements under oath required in the foregoing section are false, the collector of customs for the district in which the vessel is located may, subject to review by the Secretary of Commerce, refuse clearance to any vessel, domestic or foreign, and by formal notice served upon the owners, master, or person or persons in command or charge of any domestic vessel for which clearance is not required by law, forbid the departure of the vessel from the Departure unlawful. port or from the jurisdiction of the United States; and it shall thereupon be unlawful for the vessel to depart. Punishment for unlawful departure, etc. etc. SEC. 6. Whoever, in violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall take, or attempt or conspire to take, or authorize the taking of any such vessel, out of port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more Forfeiture of vessel, than five years, or both; and, in addition, such vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture, equipment, and her cargo shall be forfeited to the United States. Interned belligerent aliens. be arrested, etc. SEC. 7. Whoever, being a person belonging to the armed land or naval forces of a belligerent nation or belligerent faction of any Leaving limits, etc., nation and being interned in the United States, in accordance with without permission, to the law of nations, shall leave or attempt to leave said jurisdiction, or shall leave or attempt to leave the limits of internment in which freedom of movement has been allowed, without permission from the proper official of the United States in charge, or shall willfully overstay a leave of absence granted by such official, shall be subject to arrest by any marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, or by the military or naval authorities thereof, and shall be returned to the place of internment and there confined and safely kept for such period of time as the official of the United States in charge shall ing, etc., escapes. direct; and whoever, within the jurisdiction of the United States and subject thereto, shall aid or entice any interned person to escape or attempt to escape from the jurisdiction of the United States, or from the limits of internment prescribed, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Punishment for aid Organizing expedi SEC. 8. Section thirteen of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, tions against friendly revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved powers. Vol. 35, p. 1090, March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as amended. to read as follows: Furnishing money, "SEC. 13. Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the Offenses designated. United States or of any of its possessions, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money et. for, or who takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined not more than $3,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both." SEC. 9. That the President may employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. Punishment for. Enforcement by the vessels to depart. Compelling foreign amended. Enforcement by SEC. 10. Section fifteen of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 15. It shall be lawful for the President to employ such part Army, Navy, or millof the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia tia. thereof, as he may deem necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart from the United States or any of its possessions in all cases in which, by the law of nations or the treaties of the United States, it ought not to remain, and to detain or prevent any foreign vessel from so departing in all cases in which, by the law of nations or the treaties of the United States, it is not entitled to depart." Former Resolution SEC. 11. The joint resolution approved March fourth, nineteen and conflicting laws hundred and fifteen, "To empower the President to better enforce repealed. and maintain the neutrality of the United States," and any Act pealed." or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this title are hereby repealed. TITLE VI. Seizure of arms, etc., SEIZURE OF ARMS AND OTHER ARTICLES INTENDED FOR EXPORT. for export. SECTION 1. Whenever an attempt is made to export or ship from or take out of the United States, any arms or munitions of war, or other articles, in violation of law, or whenever there shall be known or probable cause to believe that any such arms or munitions of war, or other articles, are being or are intended to be exported, or shipped from, or taken out of the United States, in violation of law, the several collectors, naval officers, surveyors, inspectors of customs, and mar Authority for, if untempted. lawful exportation at Officers authorized to seize. |