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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 § 331. MUTILATION, DIMINUTION AND FALSIFICATION OF COINS Whoever fraudulently defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, fal- sifies, scales, or lightens, the gold or silver coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign gold or silver coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened- Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 332. DEBASEMENT OF COINS; ALTERATION OF OFFICIAL SCALES, OR EMBEZZLEMENT OF METALS If any of the gold or silver coins struck or coined at any of the mints of the United States shall be debased, or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to law, or if any of the scales or weights used at any of the mints or assay offices of the United States shall be defaced, altered, increased, or diminished through the fault or connivance of any officer or person employed at the said mints or assay offices, with a fraudulent intent; or if any such officer or person shall embezzle any of the metals at any time committed to his charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins struck or coined at the said mints, or any medals, coins, or other moneys of said mints or assay offices at any time committed to his charge, or of which he may have assumed the charge, every such officer or person who com- mits any of the said offenses shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. § 333. MUTILATION OF NATIONAL BANK OBLIGATIONS Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking associa- tion, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. § 334. ISSUANCE OF FEDERAL RESERVE OR NATIONAL BANK NOTES Whoever, being a Federal Reserve Agent, or an agent or employee of such Federal Reserve Agent, or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, issues or puts in circulation any Federal Reserve notes, without complying with or in violation of the provisions of law regulating the issuance and circulation of such Federal Reserve notes; or Whoever, being an officer acting under the provisions of chapter 2 of h12U.. C ., Supp. I Title 12, countersigns or delivers to any national banking association, or to any other company or person, any circulating notes contemplated by that chapter except in strict accordance with its provisions- Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 335. CIRCULATION OF OBLIGATIONS OF EXPIRED CORPORATIONS Whoever, being a director, officer, or agent of a corporation created by Act of Congress, the charter of which has expired, or trustee thereof, or an agent of such trustee, or a person having in his possession or under his control the property of such corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, knowingly issues, [62 STAT.

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