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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 150, 151-APR. 1, 1944 in public life: And provided further, That if in any issue or presentation space or time is allotted to editorials, columns, or other argumentative matter supporting a political party which has a candidate for President in at least six States in the current Presidential election, an equal amount of space or time shall be allotted in the same issue or presentation to similar matter concerning each such other political party. "'(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent the sending of any letter, communication, magazine, newspaper, or other literature by any individual, corporation (other than a Government-owned or Government-controlled corporation), or political committee to any member of the armed forces, addressed personally to such member of the armed forces, and paid for by him, or by the individual, corporation, or committee sending the same. "'SEC. 23. It shall be unlawful for any censor or other member of the executive branch of the United States Government to remove from any letter or communication addressed to an individual member of the armed forces political literature or political arguments or other matter sent to such individual member of the armed forces by any individual, corporation, or political committee, unless such literature or other matter contains information which may be of value to the enemy in their prosecution of the war. "'SEC. 24. Any person who violates the provisions of section 22 or section 23 hereof either within or outside of the United States shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.'" [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act, having been presented to the President of the United States on Monday, March 20, 1944 for his approval and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it origi- nated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] [CHAPTER 151] 149 Letters, etc., to mem- bers of armed forces. Unlawful censor- ship. Penalty. AN ACT To amend chapter 7 of the Criminal Code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 7 of the Criminal Code (35 Stat. 1115; U. S . C., title 18, ch. 7) is hereby amended by inserting after section 168 the following new section: "SEC. 168A. (a) Whoever shall manufacture, sell, offer, or adver- tise for sale, or expose or keep with intent to furnish or sell, or shall cause or procure to be manufactured, furnished, sold, offered or adver- tised for sale, any token, slug, disk, or other device similar in size and shape to any of the lawful coins of the United States, or any token, disk, or other device issued or authorized in connection with rationing by any agency of the United States with knowledge or reason to believe that such tokens, slugs, disks, or other devices may be used unlawfully or fraudulently to procure anything of value, or use or enjoyment of any property or service from any automatic merchandise vending machine, postage-stamp machine, turnstile, fare box, coin-box telephone, parking meter, or other receptacle, depos- itory, or contrivance, designed to receive or to be operated by lawful coins of the United States, shall be fined not more than $3,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. "(b) 'Knowledge or reason to believe', within the meaning of para- graph (a) of this section, may be shown by proof that any law- enforcement officer has, prior to the commission of the offense with April 1, 1944 [1ILI. R34081 [Public Law T27s Criminal Code. amendment. 35 Stat. 1120. 18U.S.o. i282. Manufacture, sale, etc., of tokens slugs. or similar devices. Penalty. "Knowledge or re- son to believe."

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