Chapter 193. Amending an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 193.— An Act Amending an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six. February 25, 1909.[[H. R. 27891](/us/bill/70/hr/27891).][[Public No. 262.](/us/pl/70/262)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That paragraph seven ofInterstate commerce regulations.Vol. 24. p. 379. section twenty of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen 649 hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so that saidVol. 84, p. 594. paragraph as so amended will read as follows:
“Par. 7. Any person who shall willfully make any false entry inPunishment for false entries, etc. the accounts of any book of accounts or in any record or memoranda kept by a carrier, or who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, alter, or by any other means or device falsify the record of any such account, record, or memoranda, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the carrier’s business, or shall keep any other accounts, records, or memoranda than those prescribed or approved by the commission, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, to a line of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not less than one year nor more than three years, or both such tine and imprisonment: *Provided*, That the commission*Proviso.*Destruction of old records allowed.Vol. 34, p. 594, amended. may in its discretion issue orders specifying such operating, accounting, or financial papers, records, books, blanks, tickets, stubs, or documents of carriers which may, after a reasonable time, be destroyed, and prescribing the length of time such books, papers, or documents shall be preserved.
” Approved, February 25, 1909.