Chapter 578. To amend section forty-seven hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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Chap. 578: To amend section forty-seven hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States. Chapter 578 30 Stat. 718 1898-07-07 United States Government Publishing Office 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. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 2 30 public chap. 578.— An Act To amend section forty-seven hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
July 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section forty-seven hundredPensions.Penalty for false affidavit and post-dating vouchers.R. S., sec. 4746, p. 924, amended. and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: " “That every person who knowingly or willfully makes or aids, or assists in the making, or in any wise procures the making or presentation of any false or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, voucher, or paper or writing purporting to be such, concerning any claim for pension or payment thereof, or pertaining to any other matter within the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Pensions or of the Secretary of the Interior, or who knowingly or willfully makes or causes to be made, or aids or assists in the making, or presents or causes to be pre-FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 578, 579. 1898.719sented at any pension agency any power of attorney or other paper required as a voucher in drawing a pension, which paper bears a date subsequent to that upon which it was actually signed or acknowledged by the pensioner, and every person before whom any declaration, affidavit,Penalty for false certificate to vouchers, etc. voucher, or other paper or writing to be used in aid of the prosecution of any claim for pension or bounty land or payment thereof purports to have been executed who shall knowingly certify that the declarant, affiant, or witness named in such declaration, affidavit, voucher, or other paper or writing personally appeared before him and was sworn thereto, or acknowledged the execution thereof, when, in fact, such declarant, affiant, or witness did not personally appear before him or was not sworn thereto, or did not acknowledge the execution thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.
” " Approved, July 7, 1898.
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Chapter 578
To amend section forty-seven hundred and forty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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