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 or without interest, or otherwise than in payment of a debt against the United States, or shall use, transfer, convert, appropriate, or apply any portion of the public money for any purpose not prescribed by law; and every president, cashier, teller, director, or other officer of any bank or banking association who shall violate any provision of this section is guilty of embezzlement of the public money so deposited, loaned, transferred, used, converted, appropriated, or ap- plied, and shall be fined not more than the amount embezzled, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (U. S. C., Title 18, § 182.) EMBEZZLEMENT BY INTERNAL-BEVENUE OFFICER SEC. 97. [Sec. 5497, R. S., as amended by act of February 3, 1879.] Any officer connected with, or employed in, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, and any assistant of such officer, who shall embezzle or wrongfully con- vert to his own use any money or other property of the United States, and any officer of the United States, or any assistant of such officer, who shall embezzle or wrongfully convert to his own use any money or property which may have come into his possession or under his control in the execution of such office or employment, or under color or claim of authority as such officer or assistant, whether the same shall be the money or property of the United States or of some other person or party, shall, where the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of the United States, be fined not more than the value of the money and property thus embezzled or converted, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (U. S . C., Title 18, § 183.) DISBURSING AND COLLECTING OFFICERS FOBBIDDEN TO TRADE IN PUBLIC FUNDS OR PBOPERTY SEa. 103 . [Sees. 1788, 1789, R. S.] Whoever, being an officer of the United States concerned in the collection or the disbursement of the revenues thereof, shall carry on any trade or business in the funds or debts of the United States, or of any State, or in any public property of either, shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and be removed from office, and thereafter be incapable of holding any office under the United States. (U. S. C., Title 18, § 192) OFFICERS INTERESTED IN CLAIMS AGAINST UNITED STATES SEn. 109. [5498, RI S.] Whoever, being an officer of the United States, or a person holding any place of trust or profit, or discharging any official function under, or in connection with, any executive department of the Government of the United States, or under the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, shall act as an agent or attorney for prosecuting any claim against the United States, or in any manner, or by any means, otherwise than in discharge of his proper official duties, shall aid or assist in the prose- cution or support of any such claim, or receive any gratuity, or any share of or interest in any claim from any claimant against the United States, with intent to aid or assist, or in consideration of having aided or assisted, in the prosecu- tion of such claim, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (U. S . C ., Title 18, § 198.) UlITED STATES OFFICERS ACCEPTING BRIBES SEC. 117. [Secs. 5501, 5502, R. S .] Whoever, being an officer of the United States, or a person acting for or on behalf of the United States, in any official capacity, under or by virtue of the authority of any department or office of the Government thereof; or whoever, being an officer or person acting for or on behalf of either House of Congress, or of any committee of either House, or of both Houses thereof, shall ask, accept, or receive any money, or any contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value, with intent to have his decision or action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before him in his official capacity, or in his place of trust or profit, influenced thereby, shall be fined not more than three times the amount of money or value of the thing so asked, accepted, or received, and imprisoned not more than three years; and shall, moreover, forfeit his office or place and thereafter be forever disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the United States. (U. S . C ., Title 18, § 207.) PoLMrCAL CONTBIBUTIONS; SOLICIToATIO SE. 118. [Sec. 11, act of January 16, 1888.] It is unlawful for any Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, Congress, or CLI APPENDIX

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