Chapter XXIV. more effectually to provide for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States
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CHAP. XXIV.— An Act more effectually to provide for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States.April 5, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedThe forging, &c., of any bond, public record, &c., with intent to defraud the United States, or willingly aiding therein, or the knowingly uttering, with such intent, any such bond, &c., made a felony, and how punished. States of America in Congress assembled,* That if any person or persons shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit; or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited; or willingly aid or assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting any bond, bid, proposal, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or shall utter or publish as true, 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, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or shall transmit to, or present at, or cause or procure to be transmitted to, or presented 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 other13THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 24, 25. 1866. 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 being thereof duly convicted, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned, and kept at hard labor, for a period not exceeding ten years, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both of said punishments in the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That if any offence shall be committedOffences committed in places ceded to and within the jurisdiction of the United States, not prohibited, and for which a punishment is not specially provided by any law of the United States, how to be punished. in any place which has been, or shall hereafter be, ceded to, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, which offence is not prohibited, or the punishment thereof is not specially provided for by any law of the United States, such offence 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 offence when committed within the jurisdiction of such State; and no subsequent repeal of any such State law shall affect any prosecution for such offence in any of the courts of the United States.
Approved, April 5, 1866.