The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-27

where he is employed, SHALL on conviction there
of, for every such offense forfeit and pay not
ceeding fifty dollars. And If any other person
shall open, embeZzle, or destroy any mail or
package ofnewspapers not being directed to him,
and not being authorized to open or receive the
same, every such person shall, on convic-
forfeit and pay not exceeding twenty dol.
lars. And any person who shall take or steal
any mail or package of newspapers from any
postofflce, or from any person having custody
thereof, every such person shall, on conyicttG n
thereof, for every such offence, be imprisoned at
hard labor not exceeding three months.
SRc. 2s5. That any person who shall rob any
carrier, agent, or other person intrusted with the
mail, OF such mail, or any part thereof, shall,
on conviction thereof, be imprisoned at hard
labor not less than five nor more than ten years;
and il convicted a second time of a like offence,
IT, in efiecing such robbery the first time, the
robber shall wound the person having custody
of the mail, or put his life in jeopardy by the use
of dangerous weapons such offender shall be
imprisoned, at hard labor, for the term of his
natural life.
SEC 2s8. That any person who shall be acces.
sorry after the fact to any robbery of the carrier,
agent or other person intrusted with the
mail, of such mail, or any part thereof shall, on
conviction thereof, for every such ofense forfeit
andpay not exceeding two thousand dollars and
be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding ten
years; and such accessory after the fact may be
tried, convicted, and punished without the prin-
cipal offender being first tried when said princi-
pal offender has fled from justice, or cannot be
found to be put on trial
SEC. 2s7. That any person who shall attempt
to rob the mail by assaulting the person having
custody thereof, shooting at him or his horse.
or threatening him with dangerous weapons,
and shall not effect such robbery, shall on convic.
ton thereof, be imprisoned at hard labor net
less than two nor more than ten years.
SEC. 2Ss. That any person who shall have
taken charge of the mail and shall voluntarily
quit or desert the same before he has
delivered it into the post-office at the
termination Of the route, or to some known
mailcarrier, messenger, agent, or other employee
of the Post-Office Department authorized to re-
every such offense forfeit and pay not exceeding
five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not less
than three months nor more than one year.
SEC. 49, That all laws defining punishment
for depredations committed upon the mail shall
extend to and have full force in the Indian
country.
SEC. 200. That any person who shall steal,
purloin, or embezzle any mail bag or other pro-
perty in use by or belonging to the Post Office
Department, or who shall, for any lucre, gain, or
convenience, appropriate any such property to
his own or any other than its proper use, or who
shall, for any lucre or gain, convey away any
such property to the hindrance or detriment of
the public service; every such person, his aiders,
abettors, and counselors, shall, if the value Of
the property be twenty-five dollars or more be
deemed guilty of felony, and, on conviction there
of for cry such offense, shall be imprisoned
not exceeding three years; and if the value of
the property be less than twenty-five dollars,
the party offending shall be imprisoned not more
than one year, or be fined not less than ten nor
more than two hundred dollars.
SEC. 291. That any person who shall tear, cut,
or otherwise injure any mailbag, pouch, or other
thing used or designed for use in the conveyance
of the mall or who shall draw or break any
staple, or loosen any part of any lock, chain, or
strap attached thereto. with intent to rob or
steal any such mail, or to render the same inse-
cure, shall. conviction thereof, for every such
offense, forfeit and pay not less than one hun
dred nor more than five hundred dollars. or be
imprisoned ut hard labor not less than one nor
more than three years, at the discretion of the
court.
SEC. 292. That any person who shall steal,
purloin, embezzle, or obtainlby any false pre-
tense, or shall aid or assist in stealing, purloin-
ing, embezzling, or obtainining by any
lock adopted by the Post-Offiee De-
partment, and n use on any of the mai 8
oingly and unlawfully make, forge, or counterfe
or cause to- be unawfully made, forged, or
counterfeited, or knowingly aid or assist in max
ing, forging, OF Souh h any suen Key,
such mail lock or key, with the intent unlawful
ly or improperly 70 use, sell, or otherwise dis
pose of the same, or to cause the same to be On-
lawfully OF improperly used, sold, or otherwise
disposed of; any person engaged as contractor
or otherwise in the manufacture OF any such
mail locks or keys who shall deliver, or cause to
be delivered any finished or unfinished lock or
key used or designed for use by said Department,
or the interior part of any such lock, to any per-
son not duly authorized, under the hand of the
Postmaster General and The seal of the Post
Office Department, to receive the same, unless
the person receiving is the contractor for fur
nishing the same, or engaged in the manufacture
thereof in the manner authorized by the con-
tract, or the agent for such manufacturer)
every such person shall be deemed guilty of fell
ony and, on conviction thereof, shall be impri
oned not exceeding ten years
SEC. 293. That 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 post-office, with intent to commit therein
larceny or other depredation, shall, on convic-
ton thereof, be fined not more than one thou
sand dollars, and imprisoned at hard labor not
more than five years according to the circum.
stances and aggravation of the case, in the dis
erection of the court.
SEC 294 That if any person or persons shall 10, Sc.
ly make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, cause or
procure to be falsely maze, altered, forged,
counterfeited. or willingly aid or assist in the
false making, altering. forging, or counterfeitng
any bond. bid proposal, guarantee, security,
official bond, public record, affidavit. or other
writing for the purpose of defraading the
or cause to be uttered or published as true, any
such false, forged altered or counterfeited bond,
bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official bond,
public record, affidavit, or other writing, for the
purpose of defrauding the United States, know.
ing the same to be false forged. altered. or coun
feited or shall transmit to, or present at, or
cause to procure to be transmitted to, or present.
ed at the office of any officer of the United States
any such false. forged, altered or counterfeited
bond, bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official
bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing
knowing the same to be FALSE forged, altered, or
counterfeited, for the purpose OF defrauding
the United States, every such person shall be
deemed and adjudged guilty of felony, and, be-
ing thereof duly convicted, shall be sentenced to
bs imprisoned and kept at hard labor, for Pc
riod not excee ding ten years, or be fined not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars, or both OF said pun
ishments in the discretion of the court
SRc. 295 That if any offense shall be commit
ted in any place which has been, or shall here
after be- coded to and under the jurisdiction of
the United States, which offense is not prohibit
ed, or the punishment thereof is not specially
provided for by any law of the United States,
such ofTens shall upon conviction in any court
of the United States having cogniZance thereof,
be liable to- and receive the same punishment
as the laws of the State in which such place is
or may be situated, now in force, provided for
the like offense when committed within the jul
risdiction of such State; and no subsequent ap.
peal of any such State law shall affect any prose-
cution for such offense in any OF the courts of
the United States,
SEC 296. That If any postmaster, or other per-
son authorized by the Postmaster General to re-
ceiye the postage of letters, shall fraudulently
demand or receive any rate of postage, or gratu-
ity, or reward, other than is provided by this
act for the postage of letters packets, on con-
victon thereof, he shall forfeit, for every such
offense, one hundred dollars
SEC. 207 That If any person employed in any
department of the post-office establishment of
the United States shall, wiifully and knowingly,
u e, or cHuse to be used, in prepayment of post
age any postage stamp, postal card, or stamped
envelope issued or which may hereafter be issued
by authority of any act of Congress or of the
Postmaster General, which has already been
once used for a like purpose, or shall remove or
attempt to remove, the canceling or defacing
marks from any such postage-stamp, or stamped
en- yelope or postal card, with intent to use or