Chapter 377. To amend section fifty-four hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes, prescribing the punishment for mutilating United States coins and for uttering or passing or attempting to utter or pass such mutilated coins
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CHAP. 377.— An Act To amend section fifty-four hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes, prescribing the punishment for mutilating United States coins and for uttering or passing or attempting to utter or pass such mutilated coins. March 3, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section fifty-four hundredMutilated coins.Punishment for uttering, etc. and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5459. Every person who fraudulently, by any art, way, orPunishment for fraudulently defacing, etc., coins.R. S., sec. 5459, p, 1058, amended. means, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsities, scales, or lightens, or causes or procures to be fraudulently defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, sealed, or lightened, or willingly aids or assists in fraudulently defacing, mutilating, impairing, diminishing, falsifying, scaling, or lightening the gold or silver coins which have been, or which may hereafter be, coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign gold or silver coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States, or who passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass,Passing, etc. utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States from any foreign place, knowing the same to be defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, sealed, or lightened, with intent to defraud any person whatsoever, or has in his possession any such defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened coin, knowing the same to be defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, sealed, or lightened, with intent to defraud any person whatsoever, shall be imprisoned not more than five years and fined not more than two thousand dollars.
” " Approved, March 3, 1897.