Chapter LVI. *to punish certain Crimes against the United States.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Recruiting soldiers or sailors to serve against the United States punishable
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Chap. LVI.— An Act *to punish certain Crimes against the United States.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Recruiting soldiers or sailors to serve against the United States punishable. That if any person shall be guilty of the act of recruiting soldiers or sailors in any State or Territory of the United States to engage in armed hostility against the United States, or who shall open a recruiting station for the enlistment of such persons, either as regulars or volunteers, to serve as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction in any court of record having jurisdiction of the offence, shall be fined a sum not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and confined and imprisoned for a period not less than one year nor more than five years.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the person so enlisted, or engagedThose enlisting punishable. as regular or volunteer, shall be fined in a like manner a sum of one hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than one nor more than three years. Approved, August 6, 1861. Chapter LVII: to promote the Efficiency of the Engineer and Topographical Engineer Corps, and for other Purposes. 11 Stat. 317 1861-08-06 Chapter LVII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*to punish certain Crimes against the United States.* August 6, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Recruiting soldiers or sailors to serve against the United States punishable
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