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 1030 and instituted pursuant to this title, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Whoever knowingly—
 * (a) advises, aids, assists, or procures the resistance, disregard, or evasion of apprehension pursuant to this title by any person named in a warrant or order of detention as one as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe that such person probably will engage in, or conspire with others to engage in espionage or sabotage; or
 * (b) advises, aids, assists, or procures the escape from confinement or detention pursuant to this title of any person so named ; or
 * (c) aids, relieves, transports, harbors, conceals, shelters, protects, or otherwise assists any person so named for the purpose of the evasion of such apprehension by such person or the escape of such person from such confinement or detention; or
 * (d) attempts to commit or conspires with any other person to commit any act punishable under subsections (a), (b), or (c) of this section,

shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the Board or any of its agents or agencies in the performance of duties pursuant to this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

DEFINITION

For the purposes of this title, the term "espionage" means any violation of sections 791 through 797 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended by this Act, and the term "sabotage" means any violation of sections 2151 through 2156 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended by this Act.

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

If any provision of this title, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remaining provisions of this title, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to suspend or to authorize the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. September 22, 1950.

The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H. R. 9490) entitled "An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes," returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, it was