Chapter 3574. To amend section fifty-four hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States
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CHAP. 3574.— An Act To amend section fifty-four hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States. June 28, 1906. [[H. R. 9721](/us/bill/59/hr/9721).] [[Public, No. 323](/us/pl/59/323).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Official misconduct. [R. S., sec. 5481, p. 1063, amended](/us/rs/s5481/p1063). That section fifty-four hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5481. Extortion. Punishment for, extended to clerks and employees. Every officer, clerk, agent, or employee of the United States, and every person representing himself to be or assuming to act as such officer, clerk, agent, or employee, who is guilty of extortion, under color of his office, clerkship, agency, or employment, or under color of his pretended or assumed office, clerkship, agency, or employment, and every person who shall attempt any act which if Penalty. performed would make him guilty of such extortion, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five “hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, except those officers or agents of the United States otherwise differently and specially provided for in the subsequent sections of this chapter.
” " Approved, June 28, 1906.