Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-27
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Sec 21o. That any person who shall willully
or maliciously injure, deface, or destroy any
mail matter, deposited in any letter box, pillar
box, or other receptacle established by authori-
ty OF the Postmaster General for the safe depOs-
it of matter for the mail or for delivery, or who
shall wilfully cid or assist in injurng such mail
matter, shall, on conviction thereof, for every
such offense, forfeit and pay not more than five
hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more
than three years, at the discretion of the court.
Sec. 80 That any person employed in any
department of the postal service who shall Sc
CRETE embezzle or destroy any letter, packet,
bag or mail of letters intrusted to him, or
which shall come into his possession, and which
was intended to be conveyed by mail, or car
ried or delivered by any mail carrier, mail mes
senger, route agent, letter carrier, or other per-
person employed in any department of the pos
tai service, or forwarded through or delivered
from any post office or branch post Office estab-
lished by authority Of the Postmaster General,
and which shall contain any note, bond draft,
warrant, revenue stamp, postage stamp, stamp
cate of stock, or pecuniary obligation or secu-
rity of the government, or OF any officer or IFS
cal 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, collect
ing the interest thereof; any letter of credit,
note, bond, warrant, draft bill, promisso:y
note covenant, contract, or agreement whatso-
ever, 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, acquittance, 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 is
sued thereon, any copy of any other article of
value, or writing representing the same, any
such person who shall steal or take any of the
things aforesaid out of any letter, packet, bag
or mail of letters which shall have como into
his possession, either in the regular course of
his official duties, or in any manner whatever,
and provided the same shall not have been de-
liverd to the party to whom it is directed, every
such person shall, on conviction thereof, for ey-
cry such ofense, be imprisoned at hard labor
not less than one nor more than FIVE years.
Sec. 28O. That the fact that any letter, packet
bag, or mail of letters shall have been deposit
ed in any post Office or branch post Office estab-
lished by authority of the Postmaster General,
or in any other authorized depository for mail
matter, or in charge OF any postmaster, assls-
tant, clerk, carrier, agent, or messenger en-
ployed in any department of the postal service,
shall be taken and held to be evidence that the
same was intended to be conveyed by mail'
within the meaning of this statute:
mail, or steal or take from out of any mail, or
post office, branch post Office, or other authorz-
ed 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 author
lied depository for mail matter, with or without
the consent of the person having custody
thereof, and open, embezzle or destroy, any
such mail, letter, OF package which shall con-
tain any note, bond, draft, check war
rant, revenue stamp, postage stamp, stamped
other pecuniary obligation or security of the
government or of any officer or fiscal agent
thereof, of any description whatever; any bank
note, bank bill post bill of exchange, or note
of attorney for receiving annuities or dividends,
selling stock in the funds, of collecting the in
terest thereof; any letter of credit, note, bond,
warrant. draft, bill promissory note, covenant,
contract. or agreement whatsoever for or relat.
ing to the payment or the delivery of any arti-
Gle of value, or the performance Of any act
matter, or thing; any receipt, release, ac-1
quittance, or discharge of or from any debt,
covenant, or demand, or any part thereof;
any copy of the record OF any judgment
any execution which may have issued thereon;
any copy of any other record, or any other ar
ticle of value, or any writing representing the
same; any person who shall, by fraud or decep-
ton. obtain from any person having custody
threof, any such mail, letter or packet contain
ing any such article of value aforesaid, every
such person, not being employed in any depart
ment of the postal service, shall, on conviction
thereof, for every such ofense, be imprisoned at
hard labor not less than one nor more than five
years. Ds--i X f4a .f-
Sec. 2S2. That any person who shall be ac-
ccssory after the fact to the ofense of stealing
OF taking any letter, postal card, or other mail
matter, or any Enclosure therein. or to any other
offense against the postal laws shall, on convic-
ton thereof, forfeit and pay not exceeding one
thousand dollars, and be Imprisoned not exceed
ceeding FIVE years and any such accessory af-
ter the fact may be tried, convicted and punish
ed in the district in which his ofense was com.
mtted, though the principal olense may have
been committed in another district; and such
trial. conviction and punishment may be before
that of the nrincinal offender when such prn-