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 1054 ·m-LE Lxxroaiiwias.-eu. 5. Falsedemandon Sec. 5436. Every person who knowingly or fraudulently demands or f¤¤¤<i¤1¤=¤t power endeavors to obtain any share or sum in the public stocks of the United °f ““°"‘°Y· _ States, or to have any part thereof transferred, assigned, sold, or een- Ibid. veyed, or to have any annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages or other debt due from the United States, or any part thereof, received or aid by virtue of any false. forged. or eounterfeited power of attorney, autihority, or instrument, shall be punished by a line of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. Circulating bills Sec. 5+37. In all cases where the charter of any corporation which ‘{f°"Pi“°d‘“°'P°'“‘ has been or may be created by act of Congress has expired or may here- S‘?f__.._...~ after expire, if any director. ofheer, or agent of the corporation, or any 7 July. 1838, 5_‘· trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in 185—”·1-"·5·P·2“'· his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, knowingly issues, re—issnes, or utters as money, or in any other way knowingly puts in circulation any hill, note, cheek, draft, or other security purport.- ing to have been made by any such corporation whose charter has expired. or by any oflieer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority derived therefrom, or if any person knowingly aids in any such act, he shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or b · imprisonment not less than one year nor more than live years, or by goth such tine and imprisonment. But nothing herein shall be construed to make it unlawful for any person, not being such director, officer, or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose hereinbefore set forth, who has received or may hereafter receive such bill, note, cheek, draft, or other security, bona tide and in the ordinary transactions of business, to utter as money or otherwise circulate the same. Making or pre- Sec. 5438. Every person who makes or causes to be made, or presents L or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United tates, 2 Mar-, 1863, <=- any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any ggé“égé3·"· 12·PP· department or officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, ’or fraudulent, or who, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of such claim, makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, any false bill, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, eertiiicate, ufiidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry, or who enters into any a reement, combination, or conspiracy to defraud the Government of thie United States, or any department or officer thereof, by obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or allowance of any false or fraudulent claim, or who, having charge. possession, custody, or (‘0llb1'0l of any money or other public property used or to be used in the military or naval service who, with intent to defraud the Ynited States or willfully to conceal such money or other property, delivers or causes to be delivered, to any other person having authority to receive the same, any amount of suc money or other property less than that for which he received a certificate or took a receipt, and every person authorized to make or deliver any certitieate, voucher, receipt, or other paper certifying the receipt of arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing, or other property so used or to be used, who makes or delivers the same to any other person without ai full knowledge of the truth of the facts stated therein, and with intent to defraud the United States, and every person who knowingly pu1‘· chases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer. sailor, or other person called into or employed in the military or naval service any arms, equipments, ammunition, clothes, military stores, or_other public property, such soldier, sailor, officor, 0i' other person not having the lawful right to pledge or sell the same. every person so offending in any of the matters set forth in this section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one nor more than
 * 1*;;**** 3 U 8* or causes to be pres; nted, for payment or approval, to or by any person