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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 263-APR. 29, 1942 Cooperation of other agencies. 19 U. S. C. 1305. 18 .S.C.§343. Entry and mailing of certain foreign prints. p U "(d) For purposes of the Library of Congress, other than for public distribution, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General are authorized, upon the request of the Librarian of Congress, to forward to the Library of Congress fifty copies, or as many fewer thereof as are available, of all foreign prints determined to be pro- hibited entry under the provisions of section 305 of title III of the Act of June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 688). and of all foreign prints excluded from the mails under authority of section 1 of title XII of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 230). "Notwithstanding the provisions of section 305 of title III of the Act of June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 688), and of section 1 of title XII of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 230), the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit the entry and the Postmaster General is author- ized to permit the transmittal in the mails of foreign prints imported for governmental purposes by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress. "BOOKS AND RECORDS Records of agents' "SEC. 5 . Every agent of a foreign principal registered under this tiities. Act shall keep and preserve while he is an agent of a foreign principal such books of account and other records with respect to all his activi- ties, the disclosure of which is required under the provisions of this Act, as the Attorney General, having due regard for the national secu- rity and the public interest, may by regulation prescribe as necessary or appropriate for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act and shall preserve the same for a period of three years following the ter- mination of such status. Until regulations are in effect under this section every agent of a foreign principal shall keep books of account and shall preserve all written records with respect to his activities. Such books and records shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of any official charged with the enforcement of this Act. Unlawful acts. It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to conceal, destroy, oblit- erate, mutilate, or falsify, or to attempt to conceal, destroy, obliterate, mutilate, or falsify, or to cause to be concealed, destroyed, obliterated, mutilated, or falsified, any books or records required to be kept under the provisions of this section. "P U B I .IC EXAMINATION OF OFFICTUAL RECORDS "SEC. 6. The Attorney General shall retaiin in pelllmanent form one copy of all registration statemlents and all statements concerling the distribution of political propaganda furnished under this Act, and the same shall be public records and open to public examination and inspection at such reasonable hours, under such regulations. as the Attorney General may prescribe, and copies of the same shall be furnished to every applicant at such reasonable fee as the Attorney General may prescribe. The Attorney General may withdraw from public examination the registration statement and other statements of any agent of a foreign principal whose activities have ceased to be of a character which requires registration under the provisions of this Act. " L IABILIrr OF OFFICERS lObligation tro orn- "SEc. 7. Each officer, or person performing the functions of an nents. officer, and each director, or person performing the functions of a director, of an agent of a foreign principal which is not an individual shall be under obligation to cause such agent to execute and file a registration statement and supplements thereto as and when such [56 STAT. a

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