The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-09-16
PUNISHMENT FOR BRIBERY.

PUNISHMENT FOR BRIBERY.
SEC. 81. 1Hd be 1t further enacted, That if
@y person or persons shall, directly or indi-
Rctly, promise, offer, or give, or cause or
nOcure to be promised, offered, or given, any
nOney, goods, right in action, bribe, present
E reward, or any promise, contract under
mkng, obligation, or security for the pay
Aent or delivery of any money, goods, right
II action, bribe, present, or reward, or any
ather valuable thing whatever to any officer
Nj the United States, or person holding any
glace of trust or profit, or discharging any
9bhclal function under OF in conneXion with
ny department of the government of the
bnlted States, after the passage of this act,
With intent to influence his decision or ac-
Won on any question, matter, cause, or thing
#hich may then he pending, or may by law
h brought before him iii his official capacity,
u IN his place of trust or profit, or with III
Rnt to influence any such officer or person
h commit, or aid or abet in committing, any
Baud on the revenue of the United States,
to cOnnive at or cOllude in, or to allow or
Aermit, or make opportunity for the com
RiSsion of any such fraud. and shall be
Rereof convicted, such person or persons SO
Yierlng, promising, or giving, or causing,
procuring to be promised, offered, or
4 ziven any such money, goods, right i'll ac-
bon, bribe, present, or reward, or any pro-
hise, contract. undertaking, obligation, OF
seeurity for the payment or delivery of any
honey, goods, right in action, bribe, present,
Rr reward, OF other valuable thing whatever,
snd the officer or person who shall i'll any
KiSe accept or receive the same OF any part
fspectively, shall be liable to Indictment in
Any court of the United States having iuris-
tction, and shall, upon conviction thereof,
d fined not exceeding three times the
amOunt so offered, promised, given, accepted,
er received. and imprisoned not exceeding
fhree years and the person convicted of so
eccepting or receiving the same, or any part
fheEeof, if an officer or person holding any
Euch place of trust or profit, shall forfeit his
phce or place; and any person so convicted
knder this section shall forever be disquali-
fed to hold any office of honor, trust, or
profit under the United States.
SEC 63. ind Be it further enacted, That
hereafter in ali cases of seizure of any goods,
AEares or merchandise which shall, i'll the
opinion of the collector or deputy collector
9naking such seizure, be of the appraised
Ralue Of three hundred dollars or less, and
(Which shall have been SO seized as beng
subject to forfeiture under any of the pro-
AlSOus of this act, or of any act to which
! his is an amendment, excepting IN cases
Otherwise provided, the said collector or
Eeputy collector shall proceed as follows,
! hat is to say: He shall cause list contain
Png particular description of the goods,
hEares, or merchandise seized to be prepared
an duplicate, and an appTaisement of the
kaIne to be made by three sworn appraisers,
F. be selected by him for said purpose, who
snail be respectable and disinterestl ed cltl-
Fens of the United States residing within the
collection district wherein the seizure was
Pnade. The aforesaid list and appraisement
shall be properly attested by such collector
pr deputy collector and the persons making
The appraisement, for which service said ap-
lralsers shall be allowed the sum of one dol
Par and fifty cents per day each, To be paid
rs other necessary charges of collectors ac-
cordlng to law. If the said goods shall be
1ound by such appraisers to be of the value
ol three hundred dollars or less, the said
or deputy collector shall publish
lotlce 1or The space of three weeks, i'll some
newspaper of the district where the seizure
was made, describing the articles and stating
the time, place, and cause of their seizure,
ana requiring any person or persons claim
ing them to appear and make such claim
within thirty days from the date of the first
publication of such notice: Prorided, That
any person or persons claiming the goods,
wares, or merchandise, so seized, within the
'ule specified in the notice, may file with
such collector or deputy collector Il claim,
stating his or their interest in the articles
seized, and may execute bond to the United
states in the penal sum of two hundred and
htty dollars, with suTeties, to be approved
oy said collector or deputy collector, condi-
Toned that, in case of condemnation of the
articles so seized, the obligors will pay all
the costs and expenses of the proceedings, to
obtain such condemnation; and npon the
delivery of such bond to the collector OF
Deputy collector, he shall transmit the same,
with the duplicate list or description OF the
goods seized. to the United States district
attorney for the district, who shall proceed
thereon in the ordinary manner prescribed
y law: ARd prOrided also, That If there
saall be no claim interposed, and no bond
gwen within the time above specified, the
collector or deputy collector, as the case
nay be, shall give ten days notice of the
sale Of the goods, wares, or merchandise, by
Publication; and at the time and place spe-
sined in said notice, shall sell the article so
y ,IIlled at public auction, and after deductlig
s, ie expense of appraisement and safe ne
-ai deposit the proceeds TO the credit OF the
sseseFetary of the Treasury And within one
msl Soar after the sale of any goods, wares, OF
- sooS4chandise, as aforesaid, any person OF per-
wa WIS Claiming to be interested i'll the goods,
f~es, or merchandise so sold may apply 10
of secretary of the Treasury for remission
a % %.He forfeiture thereof, or any of them, ana
AL s'oratiOn of the proceeds OF the said
rsta rt, which may be granted by the said Sec
d ry upon satisfactory proof. to be furnish
u such manner as he shall prescribe: