Chapter 318. To amend section 194 of the Penal Code of the United States
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CHAP. 318.— An Act To amend section 194 of the Penal Code of the United States. February 25, 1925.[[S. 3180](/us/bill/68/s/3180).][[Public, No. 466](/us/pl/68/466).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section 194Criminal Code.Vol. 35, p. 1125, amended.Postal crimes. of the penal laws of the United States be amended so that it shall read as follows: " “Sec. 194. Whoever shall steal, take, or abstract, or by fraud orStealing, secreting, embezzling, etc., mail matter. deception obtain, from or out of any mail, post office or station thereof, or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag. or mail, or shall abstract or remove from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or whoever shallMail left upon collection box, etc. steal, take, or abstract, or by fraud or deception obtain any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or whoever shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in buying, receiving, or concealing, or shall unlawfully have in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the same to have been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted; or whoeverUnauthorized taking mall before delivery. shall take any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or station thereof, or out of any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or station thereof, or other authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or shall open, secrete, embezzle, or destroy the same, shall be fined notPunishment for. more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
” " Approved, February 25, 1925.