ceals with like intent any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation, or other security of the United States, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than fifteen years. SEC. 5432. Every person who, without authority from the United States, takes, procures, or makes, 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 bed-plate, bed-piece, 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 association under the laws thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both. Taking impres plements, &c. sions of tools, im 5 Feb., 1867, 0. 26, s. 4, v. 14. session unlawful sions. Ibid., s. 5. SEC. 5433. Every person who, with intent to defraud, has Having in pos. in his possession, keeping, custody, or control, without ly such impres 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 who, with intent to defraud, sells, gives, or delivers any such imprint, stamp, or impression to any other person, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars. SEC. 5434. Every person who buys, sells, exchanges, transfers, receives, or delivers, 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 may hereafter be issued by virtue of any act of Congress, with the intent that the same be passed, published, or used as true and genuine, shall be imprisoned at hard labor not more than ten years, or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both. Buying, selling, or dealing in forged bonds, notes, &c. Ibid., s. 1. False persona public stocks. tion of holder of SEC. 5435. Every person who falsely personates any true and lawful holder of any share or sum in the public stocks or debt of the United States, or any person entitled to any s. 18, v. 4. annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages, or other 3 Mar., 1825, c. 65, False demand on fraudulent ney. Ibid. debt due from the United States, and, under color of such false personation, transfers or endeavors to transfer such public stock or any part thereof, or receives or endeavors to receive the money of such true and lawful holder thereof, or the money of any person really entitled to receive such annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages, or other debt, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. SEC. 5436 Every person who knowingly or fraudulently power of attor- demands or endeavors to obtain any share or sum in the public stocks of the United States, or to have any part thereof transferred, assigned, sold, or conveyed, or to have any annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages, or other debt due from the United States, or any part thereof, received or paid by virtue of any false, forged, or counterfeited power of attorney, authority, or instrument, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. Secreting or re moving tools or &c. 26, s. 6, v. 14. * SEC. 5453. Every person who, without authority from material used for the United States, secretes within, embezzles or takes and printing bonds, notes, stamps, carries away from, any building, room, office, apartment, 5 Feb., 1867, c. Vault, safe, or other place where the same is kept, used, employed, placed, lodged, or deposited by authority of the United States, any bed-piece, bed-plate, roll, plate, die, seal, type, or other tool, implement, or thing used or fitted to be used in stamping or printing, or in making some other tool or implement used or fitted to be used in stamping or printing, any kind or description of bond, bill, note, certificate, coupon, postage-stamp, revenue-stamp, fractional-currency note, or other paper instrument, obligation, device, or document, now or hereafter authorized by law to be printed, stamped, sealed, prepared, issued, uttered, or put in circulation on behalf of the United States, or who, without such authority, so secretes, embezzles, or takes and carries away any paper, parchment, or other material prepared and intended to be used in the making of any such papers, instruments, obligations, devices, or documents, or who, without such authority, so secretes, embezzles, or takes and carries away any paper, parchment, or other material printed or stamped, in whole or part, and intended to be prepared, issued, or put in circulation on behalf of the United States as one of the papers, instruments, or obligations herein before named, or printed or stamped, in whole or part, in the similitude of any such paper, instrument, or obligation, whether intended to issue or put the same in circulation or not, shall be punished by imprisonment, at hard labor, not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both. COUNTERFEITING COIN. gold or silver 12 Feb., 1873, c. 131, s. 61, v. 17, p. 434, ante, p. 104. act Jan. 16, 1877, post, p. 149.] Amended by SEC. 5457. Every person who falsely makes, forges, or Counterfeiting counterfeits, or causes, or procures to be falsely made, coin. forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aids, or assists in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin or bars in resemblance or similitude of the gold or silver coins or bars which have been, or hereafter may be, coined or stamped at the mints and assay-offices of the United States, or in resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or sil ver coin which by law is, or hereafter may be made, current in the United States, or are in actual use and circulation as money within the United States, or who passes, utters, pub. lishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States from any foreign place, or has in his possession, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin or bars, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. Counterfeiting minor coins. 12 Feb., 1873, s. SEC. 5458. Every person who falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits, or causes, or procures to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aids, or assists in 62, ante, p. 104. falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any coin in the resemblance or similitude of any of the minor coinage which has been, or hereafter may be, coined at the mints of the United States; or who passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or brings into the United States from any foreign place, or has in his possession, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any person whatsoever, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than three years. age. SEC. 5459. Every person who fraudulently, by any art, Mutilating coinway, or means, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, fal- Ibid., s. 63, ante, sifies, scales, or lightens the gold and silver coins which p. 105. have been, or which may hereafter be, coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign gold or silver coins which are by law made current or are in actual use and circulation as money within the United States, shall be imprisoned not more than two years and fined not more than two thousand dollars. coinage, &c., by Debasement of SEC. 5460. If any of the gold or silver coins struck or officers of the coined at any of the mints of the United States shall be mint. Ibid., s. 64. Making or uttering coin in resemblance of mo ney. 114, v. 13. debased, or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained; or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to law; or if any of the weights used at any of the mints or assay-offices of the United States shall be defaced, increased, or diminished through the fault or connivance of any of the officers or persons who are employed at the said mints or assay-offices, with a fraudulent intent; and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals at any time committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins struck or coined at the said mints, or any medals, coins, or other moneys of said mints or assay-offices at any time committed to their charge, or of which they may have assumed the charge, every such officer or person who commits any or either of the said offenses shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years, and shall be fined in a sum not more than ten thousand dollars. SEC. 5461. Every person who, except as authorized by law, makes or causes to be made, or utters or passes, or 8 June, 1864, c. attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for the use and purpose of current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than five years, or both. SEC. 5462. Every person not lawfully authorized, who makes, issues, or passes, or causes to be made, issued, or 16 May, 1866, c. passed, any coin, card, token or device in metal or its compounds, which may be intended to be used as money for any 22 Apr., 1964, c. one-cent, two-cent, three-cent, or five-cent piece, now or here66, 88. 2, 5, V. 13, after authorized by law, or for coins of equal value, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and by imprisonment not more than five years. Making or issning devices of minor coins. 81, s. 4, v. 14, p. 47, ante, p. 77, 55,ante, pp. 62, 63. Dec. 17, 1873. Vol. XVIII, p. 1. loan, 1858, c. 165 CHAP. I.-AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE LOAN Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Redemption of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for v. 11; 1859, c. 82, the purpose of redeeming the bonds issued under the act entitled 'An act to authorize a loan not exceeding the sum of twenty millions of dollars,' approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as amended March third, 8. 6, v. 11. eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, called the loan of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, it is hereby declared to be the pleasure of the United States to pay all the coupon bonds Coupon bonds made payable of said loan on the first day of January, eighteen hundred January 1, 1874. and seventy-four, at which date the interest thereon shall Interest to cease, and coin in the Treasury sufficient to redeem said coupon bonds is hereby appropriated for that purpose. cease when. Appropriation of coin. Five per cent. bonds may be is sued in exchango for any bonds of 1870, c. 256, v. 16, p. 272, ante, 82. 1871, c. 23, v. 16, p. 399, ante, p. 85. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury may issue an equal amount, at par of principal and interest, of five-percentum bonds of the funded loan under the act for refund- loan of 1858. ing the national debt, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the act amendatory thereof, ap- p. proved January twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventyone, for any of the bonds of the loan of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, which the holders thereof may on or before February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, elect to exchange for the five-per-centum bonds of the said funded loan, with interest from said January first: Provided, That No commissions, &c., to beno commissions or allowances whatever shall be paid for the allowed on exexchange of bonds hereby authorized, and no interest shall be allowed on the new bonds for any time for which interest is paid on the bonds exchanged. Approved, December 17, 1873. changes. CHAP. XIX.-AN ACT AUTHORIZING COINAGE TO BE EXECUTED AT Jan. 29, 1874. Vol. XVIII, p. 6. foreign coinage at United States mints. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it Execution of shall be lawful for coinage to be executed at the mints of the United States, for any foreign countries applying for the same, according to the legally prescribed standards and devices of such country, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and the charge for the same shall be equal to the expense thereof, including labor, materials, and use of machinery, to be fixed by the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That the manufacture of such coin Proviso. shall not interfere with the required coinage of the United States. Approved, January 29, 1874. |