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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

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more than six months, or both.] (R. S., s. 5188.)

SEC. 177. 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 9 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

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not more than one hundred dollars, or impriosned not more 14 than six months, or both. (R. S., s. 5189.)

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SEC. 178. It shall not be lawful to design, engrave,

16 print, or in any manner make or execute, or to utter, issue, 17 distribute, circulate, or use, any business or professional card, 18 notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement, in the 19 likeness or similitude of any bond, certificate of indebtedness, 20 certificate of deposit, coupon, United States note, Treasury 21 note, gold certificate, silver certificate, fractional note, or 22 other obligation or security of the United States which has 23 been or may be issued under or authorized by any Act of 24 Congress heretofore passed or which may hereafter be passed; or to write, print, or otherwise impress upon any such instru

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SEC. 177.

SEC. 5189. Every person who mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates with holes, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bankbill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt, issued by any national banking association, or who causes or procures the same to be done, with intent to render such bankbill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued by said association, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, recoverable by the association.

Penalty for defacing, etc., na

tional-bank notes.

3 June, 1864, c. 106, s. 58, v. 13, p. 117.

SEC. 178.

SEC. 3708. 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 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, 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 whatever. Any person violating this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, recoverable one-half to the use of the informer. (See ss. 5413, 5414.)

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ment, obligation, or security any business or professional

2 card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement

3 of any matter or thing whatever. Whoever shall violate

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any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five 5 hundred dollars. (R. S., s. 3708.)

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SEC. 179. No person shall make, issue, circulate, or 7 pay out any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obli

8 gation for a less sum than one dollar, intended to circulate

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as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money 10 of the United States; and every person so offending shall

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be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (R. S., s. 3583.)

SEC. 179.

SEC. 3583. 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, at the discretion of the court.

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CHAPTER EIGHT.

OFFENSES AGAINST THE POSTAL SERVICE.

Sec.

180. Conducting post-office without authority. 181. Illegal carrying of mail by carriers and others.

182. Conveyance of mail by private express forbidden.

183. Transporting persons unlawfully con

veying mail.

184. Sending letters by private express.
195. Conveying of letters over post routes.
186. Carrying letters out of the mail on
board of vessel.

187. When conveying of letters by private
persons is lawful.

188. Wearing uniform of carrier without authority.

189. Vehicles, etc., claiming to be mail carriers.

190. Injuring mail bags, etc.

191. Stealing post-office property.

192. Stealing or forging mail locks or keys.
193. Breaking into and entering post-office.
194. Unlawfully entering postal car, etc.
195. Stealing, secreting, embezzling, etc.,
mail matter or contents.

196. Postmaster or employee of postal service
detaining, destroying, or embezzling
letter, etc.

197. Postmaster, etc., detaining or destroying newspapers.

198. Assaulting mail carrier with intent to rob, and robbing mail.

199. Injuring letter boxes or mail matter; assaulting carrier, etc.

200. Deserting the mail.

201. Delivery of letters by master of vessel. 202. Obstructing the mail.

203. Ferryman delaying the mail.

204. Letters carried in a foreign vessel to be deposited in a post-office.

205. Vessels to deliver letters at post-office; oath.

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206. Using, selling, etc., canceled stamps; removing cancellation marks from stamps, etc.

207. False returns to increase compensation.
208. Collection of unlawful postage for-
bidden.

209. Unlawful pledging or sale of stamps.
210. Failure to account for postage and to
cancel stamps, etc., by officials.
211. Issuing money order without payment.
212. Obscene, etc., matter nonmailable.
213. Libelous and indecent wrappers and en-
velopes.

214. Lottery, gift enterprise, etc., circulars,
etc., not mailable.

215. Postmasters not to be lottery agents.
216. Use of mails to promote frauds.
217. Fraudulently assuming fictitious ad-

dress.

218. Poisons and explosives nonmailable.
219. Counterfeiting money orders.
220. Counterfeiting postage stamps.
221. Counterfeiting, etc., foreign stamps.
222. Inclosing higher-class in lower class
matter.

223. Postmaster illegally approving bond, etc.
224. False evidence as to second-class mat-
ter.

225. Inducing or prosecuting false claims. 226. Misappropriation of postal funds or property.

227. Employees not to become interested in
contracts.

228. Fraudulent use of official envelopes.
229. Fraudulent increase of weight of mail.
230. Offenses against foreign mail in transit.
231. Omission to take oath.
232. Definitions.

SEC. 180. Whoever, without authority from the Post4 master-General, shall set up or profess to keep any office or 5 place of business bearing the sign, name, or title of post

6 office, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

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