Chapter 317.
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CHAP. 317.— AN ACT to protect public libraries in the District of Columbia, and for other purposesJune 19, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public libraries, District of Columbia. That any person who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, or manuscript, or any portion thereof, belonging to the Library of Congress, or to any public library in the District of Columbia, whether the property of the United States or of any individual or corporation in said District, or who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, document, manuscript, print, engraving, medal,Stealing, etc., books of. newspaper, or work of art, the property of the United States, shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall, when the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of the United States, be punished by a fine of not less than tenPenalty. dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than twelve months, or both, for every such offense.
Approved, June 19, 1878.