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 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C1-1s. 317-319. 1925. 977 as may be suitable and proper, and issue all such customary writs as mgy be necessary or convenient to carry out and enforce the same. Approved, February 25, 1925. CHAP. 318.-An Act To amend section 194 of the Penal Code of the United F°b?§ir§ggf]m5' States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sectioxii 194 $;i?un3;iO°,:°` 1125, of the penal laws of the United States be amended so that it shall ***;*;:,*2;,**-. read as follows: Stem mm°°° _ " Sec. 194. Whoever shall steal, take, or abstract, or by fraud or embennigé, deception obtain, from or out of any mail, post office or station m°"°" . thereof, or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, posta card, package, bag, or mail, or shall abstract or remove from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any such letter, postal card, package, bag or Mau Ht mail, or any article or thing contained therein; or whoever shall lection ¤¢ix,¤ii£°° °°f steal, take or abstract, or by fraud or deception obtain any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or whoever shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in buying, receiving, or concealing, or shall unlawfully have in his possession, any letter, postal cardhpackage, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, w 'ch has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, lmowin the same Unauthorized t to have been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted; or who- m»ur»xmu¤11ve$°g ever 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 ry into the business or secrets of another, or shall o en, secrete, embezzle, or destroy the same, shall be lined not P'“""""°“"“‘· more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than live years, or both." Approved, February 25, 1925. CHAP. 319.-—An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the FebT;iymbb'.)1m` Federal Land Bank of Baltimore certain land in the city of San Juan, Porto Rico. {Pubns, No. 401.] Be it enacted by the Senate and H ouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Oemgress assembled, That the Secre- §,‘},';,`{},‘,,*;_‘,;;·,§·,,._,d_ tary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey by appro- g:I1timry’<1 hginkémgg griate quitclaim deed to the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, of emma mf ’ altimore, Maryland, for the sum of $6,000, which is hereby made °’° °'*"'°°"°"°· available for the construction of a double set of noncommissioned ofiicers’ quarters on the main reservation of San Juan, Porto Rico, which will replace the double set of noncommissioned officers’ quarters on the land to be conveyed, the tract of land situated m the City of San Juan, in the island of Porto Rico, and described as follows:. ti Being the easterly part of La Palma Bastion Military Reserva- D°°°"° °°’ tion, San Juan, Porto Rico, located and described as follows; Beginning at the northwesterly corner of this parcel located at the