Chapter 2. Providing for the punishment of persons in possession of stolen property in the District of Columbia, having stolen the same in any other State or Territory
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CHAP. 2.— An Act Providing for the punishment of persons in possession of stolen property in the District of Columbia, having stolen the same in any other State or Territory. December 21, 1911.[[S. 1081](/us/bill/62/s/1081).][[Public, No. 47](/us/pl/62/47).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That Subchapter II, ChapterDistrict of Columbia Code.Vol. 31, p. 1325, amended. XIX, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section eight hundred and thirty-six a, which shall read as follows:
" “Sec. 836 a. Any person who by the commission outside of the DistrictPunishment for bringing stolen property into the District. of Columbia of any act which, if committed within the District of Columbia, would be a criminal offense under the laws of said District, thereby obtains any property or other thing of value, and is 45 46afterwards found with any such property or other such thing of value in his possession in said District, or who brings any such property or other such thing of value into said District, shall, upon conviction, be punished in the same manner as if said act had been committed wholly within said District.
” " Approved, December 21, 1911.