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enacting clauses and breaking up the main section into handy paragraphs, the amended law now reads as follows:

OFFENSES:

I—False and Interfering Reports

3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies,—

II—Obstructing Bond Sales, etc.

—whoever shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor or investors, with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds or other securities of the United States or the making of loans by or to the United States,—

III—Inciting or Causing Mutiny

—whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause or incite or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States,—

IV—Obstructing Enlistments

—whoever shall willfully obstruct or attempt to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States,—

V—Attacks on Government, Flag, etc.

—whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute,—

VI—Encouraging Resistance

—whoever shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any lan