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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-ICHS. 413, 414 -AUG. 3, 1939 sell, or dispose of, any such bed piece, bed plate, roll, plate, die, seal, stone, type, or other tool, implement, or thing used or intended to be used in falsely making, forging, altering, or counterfeiting any security, or any part thereof, moving as, or which is a part of, or which constitutes interstate or foreign commerce, knowing that the same is fitted to be used, or has been used, in falsely making, forging, altering, or counterfeiting any security, or any part thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to any falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or spurious representation of (1) an 'obligation or other security of the United States' as defined in section 147 of the Criminal Code (U. S . C., title 18, sec. 261) or (2) an obligation, bond, certificate, security, Treasury note, bill, promise to pay, or bank note issued by any 'foreign government' as defined in the Act of June 15, 1917, title VIII, section 4 (U. S . C ., title 18, sec. 288), or by a bank or corporation of any foreign country." SEC. 3 . That section 5 of the National Stolen Property Act, approved May 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 794; U. S. C ., title 18, sec. 417), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5 . In the event that a defendant is charged in the same indict- ment with two or more violations of this Act, then the aggregate value of all goods, wares, and merchandise, securities, and money referred to in such indictment shall constitute the value thereof for the purposes of sections 3 and 4 hereof, and the value of any secu- rities referred to shall be considered to be the face, par, or market value, whichever is the greatest." SEC. 4. That section 6 of the National Stolen Property Act, approved May 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 794; U. S. C ., title 18, sec. 418), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. Any person violating this Act may be tried in any dis- trict from, into, or through which such goods, wares, or merchandise, or such securities, or money or such falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeited securities have been transported or removed." SEC. 5. That the National Stolen Property Act, approved May 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 794; U. S . C., title 18, sees. 413-419, inclusive), is hereby amended by inserting therein the following new section to be known as "section 7": "SEC. 7. If two or more persons enter into an agreement, confed- eration, or conspiracy to violate any provision of this Act, and do any overt act toward carrying out such unlawful agreement, confed- eration, or conspiracy, such person or persons shall be punished in like manner as hereinbefore provided by this Act." SEC. 6. That section 7 of the National Stolen Property Act, approved May 22, 1934 (48 Stat. 794; U. S. C., title 18, sec. 419), is hereby renumbered as "section 8". Approved, August 3, 1939. [CHAPTER 414] AN ACT To authorize the board of directors of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf to dedicate a portion of Mount Olivet Road Northeast and to exchange certain lands with the Secretary of the Interior, to dispose of other lands, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide a suitable approach to the Ninth Street Northeast overpass across the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail- roads and furnish better access to a part of the property of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, described in the records of the 98907°-39- - -r 2-43 1179 Penalty. Proviso. Counterfeited U. S. or foreign securities exempt. 35 Stat. 1115. 18 U. S.C. § 26!; Supp. IV, §261. 40 Stat. 226 . 18U.S. C. 288. 48 Stat. 795. 18U.S.C. 417. Indictment for two or more offenses; de- fining value of securi- ties, etc. 48 Stat. 795. 18 U.S. C 418. Venue. 48 Stat. 794. 18U. . C.. 413- 410. Conspiracy. Textual amend- ment. 48 Stat. 795. 18 U.S. C. 419. August 3, 1939 [H. R. 51441 [Public, No. 256] Columbia Institu- tion for the Deaf, D.C. Dedication of cer- tain lands for public purposes authorized.

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