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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 69, 72-APR. 4, 5 , 1938 [52 STAT. that the property has been taken from the possession of the United States or furnished by the United States under such allowance, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. against pueblicprop- "(C) And whoever shall take and carry away or take for his use, erty. or for the use of another, with intent to steal or purloin, or shall willfully injure or commit any depredation against, any property of the United States, or any branch or department thereof, or any cor- Propertyundercon- poration in which the United States of America is a stockholder, or tract for War or Navy wi .ma s o Departments. any property which has been or is being made, manufactured, or constructed under contract for the War or Navy Departments Penalty. of the United States, shall be punished as follows: If the value of such property exceeds the sum of $50, by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both; if the value of such property does not exceed the sum of $50, by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in a jail for not more Value construed. than one year, or both. Value, as used in this section, shall mean market value or cost price, either wholesale or retail, whichever shall be the greater." Approved, April 4, 1938. [CHAPTER 72] April 6, 1938 IS. 711] [Public, No. 466] District of Colum- bia Code, amend- ments. Offenses against public policy. 31 Stat. 1330 . 6D. C . Code 151. Managing, etc., policy lotteries, pol- icy shops, or lotteries. Lottery chances; sale, transfer, etc. Penalty. Copy or record of such chance, etc., prima facie evidence. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended, and particularly sections 863, 911, and 914 of the said code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, constituting a Code of Law for the District of Columbia, be, and the same hereby are, amended as follows: Section 863 of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 863. If any person shall within the District keep, set up, or promote, or be concerned as owner, agent, or clerk, or in any other manner, in managing, carrying on, promoting, or advertising, directly or indirectly, any poicy lottery, policy shop, or any lottery, or shall sell or transfer any chance, right, or interest, tangible or intangible, in any policy lottery, or any lottery or shall ell or transfer any ticket, certificate, bill, token, or other device, purporting or intended to guarantee or assure to any person or entitle him to a chance of drawing or obtaining a prize, to be drawn in any lottery, or in a game or device commonly known as policy lottery or policy or shall, for himself or another person, sell or transfer, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale or transfer a chance or ticket in or share of a ticket in any lottery or any such bill, certificate, token, or other device, he shall be fined upon conviction of each said offense not more than $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than three years, or both. The possession of any copy or record of any such chance, right, or interest, or of any such ticket, certificate, bill, token, or other device shall be prima-facie evidence that the possessor of such copy or record did, at the time and place of such possession, keep, set up, or promote, or was at such time and place concerned as owner, agent, or clerk, or otherwise in managing, carrying on, promoting, or advertising a policy lottery, policy shop, or lottery.' SEC. 2. There is hereby added to said Act a new section to be known as section 863 (a), to read as follows: 198

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