SEC. 208. SEC. 3899. If any postmaster, or other person authorized by the Postmaster-General to receive the postage of letters, shall fraudulently demand or receive any rate of postage, or gratuity, or reward, other than is provided by this section, for the postage of letters or packets, he shall be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars. Fraudulent re ceipts of postage; SEC. 209. SEC. 3920. Postage-stamps shall not be sold for any larger sum than the value indicated on their face, nor stamped envelopes for more than is charged therefor by the Post-Office Department for like quantities. Any person connected with the postal service who shall violate this provision shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred. CHAP. 259. An Act making appropriations for the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending And no postmaster of any class, or other person connected with the postal service, intrusted with the sale or custody of postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, or postal cards, shall use or dispose of them in the payment of debts or in the purchase of merchandise or other salable articles, or pledge or hypothecate the same, or sell or dispose of them except for cash, or sell or dispose of postagestamps or postal cards for any larger or less sum than the values indicated on their faces, or sell or dispose of stamped envelopes for a larger or less sum than is charged therefor by the Post-Office Department for like quantities, or sell or dispose of postage-stamps, stamped envelopes, or postal cards otherwise than as provided by law and the regulations of the Post-Office Department; and any postmaster, or other person connected with the postal service, who shall violate any of these provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Selling stamps at more than June 17, 1878. 20 Stat. L., p. 140. I Supp., p. 187, par. 2. 1 the allowances or facilities provided therefor, any person to 2 purchase at such post-office or any station thereof, or from 3 any employee of such post-office, postage stamps, stamped 4 envelopes, or postal cards; or sell or dispose of postage stamps, 5 stamped envelopes, or postal cards, otherwise than as pro6 vided by law or the regulations of the Post-Office Department, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or 7 8 imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (R. S., s. 9 3920. 17 June, 1878, 20 Stat. L., 141, c. 259, s. 1; 1 10 Supp., 187.) 11 SEC. 210. Whoever, being a postmaster or other person 12 engaged in the postal service, shall collect and fail to ac13 count for the postage due upon any article of mail matter 14 which he may deliver without having previously affixed and 15 canceled the special stamp provided by law, or shall fail to 16 affix such stamp, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. 17 (3 Mar., 1879; 20 Stat. L., 362, c. 180, s. 27; 1 Supp., 249.) SEC. 211. Whoever, being a postmaster or other person 19 employed in any branch of the postal service, shall issue a 20 money order without having previously received the money 21 therefor shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. 18 SEC. 210. SEC. 27. That any postmaster or other person engaged in the postal service who shall collect, and fail to account for, the postage due upon any article of mail-matter which he may deliver, without having previously affixed and canceled such special stamps, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall fail to affix such stamp, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars. Penalty for failure to account for postage, or to can cel stamps, etc., by officials. I Supp., p. 249. SEC. 211. Issuing order SEC. 4030. Any postmaster who issues a money-order without having previously received the money therefor shall be deemed guilty of a misde- before payment; meanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. penalty. 8 June, 1872, c. 335, s. 105, v. 17, p. 297. 1 SEC. 212. [Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, 2 pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other 3 publication of an indecent character, and every article or 4 thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing concep 5 tion or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use, and every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, 6 use, 7 8 10 or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for preventing con9 ception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose, and every written or printed card, letter, circular, 11 book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving 12 information directly or indirectly, where, or how, or from 13 whom, or by what means any of the hereinbefore-mentioned 14 matters articles, or things may be obtained or made, or where or by whom any act or operation of any kind for the procuring or producing of abortion will be done or performed, or how 15 16 17 19 or by what means conception may be prevented or abortion 18 produced, whether sealed or unsealed, and every letter, packet, or package, or other mail matter containing any filthy, vile, or indecent thing, device, or substance, and every paper, 21 writing, advertisement, or representation that any article, in22 strument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing may, or can be, 20 23 used or applied for preventing conception or producing abor24 tion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose, and every de25 scription calculated to induce or incite a person to so use or SEC. 212. Obscene, etc., SEC. 2. That section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy- matter nonmailsix, is hereby so amended as to read as follows: able. Substitute for. as amended by 186 (19 Stat. L., 19 Opins., 667. I Supp., p. 621, "SEC. 3893. Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character, and every article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortion, and every article or thing intended or adapted for any indecent or immoral use, and every written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information, directly or indirectly, where or how, or of whom, or by what means any of the hereinbefore s. 2. mentioned matters, articles, or things may be obtained or made, whether sealed as first-class matter or not, are hereby declared to be nonmailable matter, and shall not be conveyed in the mails nor delivered from any post-office nor by letter carrier; "And any person who shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited, for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable matter, and any person who shall knowingly take the same, or cause the same to be taken, from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing of, or of aiding in the circulation or disposition of the same, shall, for each and every offense, be fined upon conviction thereof not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.' I Supp., p. 621. Punishment for mailing or taking from mails to cir culate. |