forged, or counterfeited military bounty-land warrant, military bountyland warrant certificate, certificate or duplicate certificate of location, certificate or duplicate certificate of purchase, receipt or duplicate receipt for the purchase money of any of the lands of the United States, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

R. S. § 5420. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 73, 35 Stat. 1101.

§ 10242. (Crim. Code, § 74.) Forging, etc., certificates of citizenship; punishment for.

Whoever shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or shall knowingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any certificate of citizenship, with intent to use the same, or with the intent that the same may be used by some other person, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Act June 29, 1906, c. 3592, § 16, 34 Stat. 602. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 74, 35 Stat. 1102.

§ 10243. (Crim. Code, § 75.) Engraving, etc., counterfeit plates for citizenship certificates; printing, etc.; distinctive paper; punishment for.

Whoever shall engrave, or cause or procure to be engraved, or assist in engraving, any plate in the likeness of any plate designed for the printing of a certificate of citizenship; or whoever shall sell any such plate, or shall bring into the United States from any foreign place any such plate, except under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor or other proper officer; or whoever shall have in his control, custody, or possession any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any such certificate has been printed, with intent to use or to suffer such plate to be used in forging or counterfeiting any such certificate or any part thereof; or whoever shall print, photograph, or in any manner cause to be printed, photographed, made, or executed, any print or impression in the likeness of any such certificate, or any part thereof; or whoever shall sell any such certificate, or shall bring the same into the United States from any foreign place, except by direction of some proper officer of the United States; or whoever shall have in his possession a distinctive paper which has been adopted by the proper officer of the United States for the printing of such certificate, with intent unlawfully to use the same, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Act June 29, 1906, c. 3592, § 17, 34 Stat. 602. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 75, 35 Stat. 1102.

§ 10244. (Crim. Code, § 76.) False personation, etc., in procuring naturalization; punishment for.

Whoever, when applying to be admitted a citizen, or when appearing as a witness for any such person, shall knowingly personate any person other than himself, or shall falsely appear in the name of a deceased person, or in an assumed or fictitious name; or

whoever shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit any oath, notice, affidavit, certificate, order, record, signature, or other instrument, paper, or proceeding required or authorized by any iaw relating to or providing for the naturalization of aliens; or whoever shall utter, sell, dispose of, or shall use as true or genuine, for any unlawful purpose, any false, forged, antedated, or counterfeit oath, notice, certificate, order, record, signature, instrument, paper, or proceeding above specified; or whoever shall sell or dispose of to any person other than the person for whom it was originally issued any certificate of citizenship or certificate showing any person to be admitted a citizen, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

R. S. § 5424. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 76, 35 Stat. 1102.

§ 10245. (Crim. Code, § 77.) Using false certificate of citizenship; citizenship blanks; denying citizenship; punishment for. Whoever shall use or attempt to use, or shall aid, assist, or participate in the use of any certificate of citizenship, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeit, or antedated, or knowing the same to have been procured by fraud or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or whoever, without lawful excuse, shall knowingly possess any false, forged, antedated, or counterfeit certificate of citizenship purporting to have been issued under any law of the United States relating to naturalization, knowing such certificate to be false, forged, antedated, or counterfeit, with the intent unlawfully to use the same; or whoever shall obtain, accept, or receive any certificate of citizenship, knowing the same to have been procured by fraud or by the use or means of any false name or statement given or made with the intent to procure, or to aid in procuring, the issuance of such certificate, or knowing the same to have been fraudulently altered or antedated; or whoever, without lawful excuse, shall have in his possession any blank certificate of citizenship provided by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization with the intent unlawfully to use the same; or whoever, after having been admitted to be a citizen, shall, on oath or by affidavit, knowingly deny that he has been so admitted, with the intent to evade or avoid any duty or liability imposed or required by law, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned, not more than five years, or both.

R. S. § 5425. Act June 29, 1906, c. 3592, § 19, 34 Stat. 602. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 77, 35 Stat. 1102.

10246. (Crim. Code, § 78.) Attempting to vote, etc., on false certificate; punishment for.

Whoever shall in any manner use, for the purpose of registering as a voter, or as evidence of a right to vote, or otherwise unlawfully, any order, certificate of citizenship, or certificate, judgment, or exemplification, showing any person to be admitted to be a citizen, whether heretofore or hereafter issued or made, knowing that such order, certificate, judgment, or exemplification has been unlawfully issued or made; or whoever shall unlawfully use, or attempt to use, any such order or certificate, issued to or in the name of any other person, or in a fictitious name, or the name of a deceased person,

shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

R. S. § 5426. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 78, 35 Stat. 1103.

§ 10247. (Crim. Code, § 79.) Falsely claiming citizenship; punishment for.

Whoever shall knowingly use any certificate of naturalization heretofore or which hereafter may be granted by any court, which has been or may be procured through fraud or by false evidence, or which has been or may hereafter be issued by the clerk or any other officer of the court without any appearance and hearing of the applicant in court and without lawful authority; or whoever, for any fraudulent purpose whatever, shall falsely represent himself to be a citizen of the United States without having been duly admitted to citizenship, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

R. S. § 5428. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 79, 35 Stat. 1103.

§ 10248. (Crim. Code, § 80.) Falsely swearing in naturalization cases; punishment for.

Whoever, in any proceeding under or by virtue of any law relating to the naturalization of aliens, shall knowingly swear falsely in any case where an oath is made or affidavit taken, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than five years.

R. S. § 5395. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 80, 35 Stat. 1103.

§ 10249. (Crim. Code, § 81.) Provisions applicable to all courts of naturalization.

The provisions of the five sections last preceding shall apply to all proceedings had or taken, or attempted to be had or taken, before any court in which any proceeding for naturalization may be commenced or attempted to be commenced, and whether such court was vested by law with jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings or not.

R. S. § 5429. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 81, 35 Stat. 1103.

§ 10250. (Crim. Code, § 82.) Shanghaiing of sailors, described; punishment for.

Whoever, with intent that any person shall perform service or labor of any kind on board of any vessel engaged in trade and commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or on board of any vessel of the United States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable water of the United States, shall procure or induce, or attempt to procure or induce, another, by force or threats or by representations which he knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person so procured or induced is intoxicated or under the influence of any drug, to go on board of any such vessel, or to sign or in anywise enter into any agreement to go on board of any such vessel to perform service or labor thereon; or whoever shall knowingly detain on board of any such vessel any person so procured or induced to go on board thereof, or to enter into any agreement to go on board thereof, by any means herein defined; or whoever shall knowingly aid or abet in the doing of any of the things herein made

unlawful, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Act June 28, 1906, c. 3583, §§ 1-3, 34 Stat. 551, as amended, Act March 2, 1907, c. 2359, 34 Stat. 1233. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 82, 35 Stat. 1103. § 10251. (Crim. Code, § 83.) Corporations contributing for political elections; penalty for; additional to officers.

It shall be unlawful for any national bank, or any corporation organized by authority of any law of Congress, to make a money contribution in connection with any election to any political office. It shall also be unlawful for any corporation whatever to make a money contribution in connection with any election at which Presidential and Vice-Presidential electors or a Representative in Congress is to be voted for, or any election by any State legislature of a United States Senator. Every corporation which shall make any contribution in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars; and every officer or director of any corporation who shall consent to any contribution by the corporation in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Act Jan. 26, 1907, c. 420, 34 Stat. 864. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 83, 35 Stat. 1103.

§ 10252. (Crim. Code, § 84.) Hunting, taking eggs, etc., on birdbreeding grounds; punishment for.

Whoever shall hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of any such bird, on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved as breeding grounds for birds, by any law, proclamation, or executive order, except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may, from time to time, prescribe, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Act June 28, 1906, c. 3565, 34 Stat. 536. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, § 84, 35 Stat. 1104.

An appropriation for the enforcement of this section and for the maintenance of reservations for animals and for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations was made by the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year ending 1914, Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 847.

§ 10253. (Crim. Code, § 85.) Extortion by officials; punishment

Every officer, clerk, agent, or employee of the United States, and every person representing himself to be or assuming to act as such. officer, clerk, agent, or employee, who, under color of his office, clerkship, agency, or employment, or under color of his pretended or assumed office, clerkship, agency, or employment, is guilty of extortion, and every person who shall attempt any act which if performed would make him guilty of extortion, shall be fined not