SEC. 193. SEC. 5478. Any person who shall forcibly break into or attempt to break into any post-office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post-office, with intent to commit therein larceny or other depredation, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than five years. 1 SEC. 194. [Whoever, by violence, shall enter a post 2 office car, or any apartment in any car, steamboat, or ves 3 sel, assigned to the use of the Mail Service, or shall will 4 5 fully or maliciously assault or interfere with any postal clerk in the discharge of his duties in connection with such car, 6 steamboat, vessel, or apartment thereof, or shall willfully aid 7 or assist therein, shall be fined not more than one thousand 8 dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.] 9 .10 11 12 15 16 (3 Mar., 1903, 32 Stat. L., 1176, c. 1009, s. 5.) SEC. 195. [Whoever shall steal, take, or abstract, or by fraud or deception obtain, from or out of any mail, post-office, or station thereof, or other authorized depository for mail 13 matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal 14 card, package, bag, or mail, or shall abstract or remove from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or shall secrete, embezzle, 17 or destroy any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or whoever shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in buying, receiv20 ing, or concealing, or shall unlawfully have in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any 22 article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, 23 taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing 18 19 21 24 the same to have been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or ab SEC. 194. Punishment for entering mail cars, etc. SEC. 5. Whoever by violence enters a railway post-office car or any apartment in any railway car assigned to the use of the railway mail service, or who willfully or maliciously assaults a railway postal clerk in the discharge of his duties in connection with such car or apartment, and whoever willfully aids or 1176, ch. 1009. assists therein, shall for every such offense be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three years. Mar. 3, 1903. SEC. 195. SEC. 3892. Any person who shall take any letter, postal card, or packet, although it does not contain any article of value or evidence thereof, out of a post-office or branch post-office, or from a letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post-office or branch post-office or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy the same, shall, for every offense, be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than one year, or by both. Stealing or fraudulently obtaining mail, opening valuable letters, etc. Ibid., s. 281. U. S. v. Parsons, 2 Blatch., 2 SEC. 5469. Any person who shall steal the mail, or steal or take from or out of any mail or post-office, branch post-office, or other authorized depository for mail matter, any letter or packet; any person who shall take the mail, or any letter or packet therefrom, or from any post-office, branch post-office, or other authorized depository for mail matter, with or without the consent of the person having custody thereof, and open, embezzle, or destroy any such mail, letter, or package which shall contain any note, bond, draft, check, warrant, revenue stamp, postage stamp, stamped envelope, money order, certificate of stock, or other pecuniary obligation or security of the Government, or of any officer or 104: U.S. v. Marfiscal agent thereof, of any description whatever; any bank note, bank post bill, selis, 2 Blatch., bill of exchange, or note of assignment of stock in the funds; any letter of attor- 108; U. S. V. ney for receiving annuities or dividends, selling stock in the funds, or collecting Blatch., 470; U. the interest thereof; any letter of credit, note, bond, warrant, draft, bill, promissory note, covenant, contract, or agreement whatsoever, for or relating to the payment or the delivery of any article of value, or the performance of any act, matter, or thing; any receipt, release, acquittance, or discharge of or from any debt, covenant, or demand, or any part thereof; any copy of record of any judgment or decree in any court of law or chancery, or any execution which may have issued thereon; any copy of any other record, or any other article of value, or any writing representing the same; any person who shall, by fraud or deception, obtain, from any person having custody thereof, any such mail, letter, or packet containing any such article of value shall, although not employed in the postal service, be punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than one year and not more than five years. (See s. 5535.) SEC. 5470. Any person who shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in buying, receiving, or concealing, any note, bond, draft, check, warrant, revenue stamp, postage stamp, stamped envelope, postal card, money order, certificate of stock, or other pecuniary obligation or security of the Government, or of any s.v. Foye, 1 Curt. Pearce, 2 Mc- v. Fisher, 5 Mc- v. John T. Dris Receiving arti cles stolen from Ibid., s. 283, p. S R-60-1-Vol 3-16 1 stracted; or whoever shall take any letter, postal card, 2 3 4 or package, out of any post-office or station thereof, or out of any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post-office or station 5 thereof, or other authorized depository, or in the custody of 6 7 any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with a design to obstruct 8 the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of 9 another, or shall open, secrete, embezzle, or destroy the same, 10 shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or im11 prisoned not more than five years, or both.] (R. S., ss. 3892, 5469, 5470.) 12 13 SEC. 196. [Whoever, being a postmaster or other person 14 employed in any department of the postal service, shall un15 lawfully detain, delay, or open any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail intrusted to him or which shall come into his 17 possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier, messenger, agent, or 16 18 19 other person employed in any department of the postal serv20 ice, or forwarded through or delivered from any post-office or 21 station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster22 General; or shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any such letter, 23 postal card, package, bag, or mail; or shall steal, abstract, or 24 remove from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, shall be fined not more than five 25 officer or fiscal agent thereof, of any description whatever; any bank note, bank post bill, bill of exchange, or note of assignment of stock in the funds; any letter of attorney for receiving annuities or dividends, selling stock in the funds, or collecting the interest thereof; any letter of credit, note, bond, warrant, draft, bill, promissory note, covenant, contract, or agreement whatsoever, for or relating to the payment of money or the delivery of any article of value, or the performance of any act, matter, or thing; any receipt, release, acquittal, or discharge of or from any debt, covenant, or demand, or any part thereof; any copy of the record of any judgment or decree in any court of law or chancery, or any execution which may have issued thereon; any copy of any other record, or any other article of value or writing representing the same, knowing any such article or thing to have been stolen or embezzled from the mail, or out of any post-office, branch post-office, or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from any person having custody thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than five years. SEC. 196. Detaining let- SEC. 3890. Any postmaster who shall unlawfully detain in his office any letter or other mail matter, the posting of which is not prohibited by law, with ters; penalty. intent to prevent the arrival and delivery of the same to the person to whom it is addressed, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and by imprisonment for not more than six months, and he shall be forever thereafter incapable of holding the office of postmaster. SEC. 3891. Any person employed in any department of the postal service who shall unlawfully detain, delay, or open any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters intrusted to him, or which has come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any mail-carrier, mail-messenger, route-agent, letter-carrier, or other person employed in any department of the postal service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post-office or branch post-office established by authority of the Postmaster. General; or who shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any such letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters, although it does not contain any security for or assurance relating to money or other thing of value, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both. Detaining, opening, penalty. 302. Embezzlement, containing inclo sures. Ibid., s. 279. McLean, 499; U. SEC. 5467. Any person employed in any department of the postal service who shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters etc., of letters intrusted to him, or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any mail-carrier, mailmessenger, route-agent, letter-carrier, or other person employed in any department of the postal service, or forwarded through or delivered from any postoffice or branch post-office established by authority of the Postmaster-General, and which shall contain any note, bond, draft, check, warrant, revenue stamp, postage-stamp, stamped envelope, postal card, money-order, certificate of stock, or other pecuniary obligation or security of the Government, or of any officer or fiscal agent thereof, of any description whatever; any bank-note, bank postbill, bill of exchange, or note of assignment of stock in the funds; any letter of attorney for receiving annuities or dividends, selling stock in the funds, man, 13 Pet., 176; U. S. v. Nott, 1 s. v. Martin, 2 McLean, 256; U. S. v. Whitaker, 6 s. v. Emerson, 8 McLean, 406; U. S. v. Patterson, 6 McLean, 342; U. |