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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 reissues, or utters as money, or in any other way knowingly puts in cir- culation any bill, note, check, draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such corporation, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority derived therefrom, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 336. ISSUANCE OF CIRCULATING OBLIGATIONS OF LESS THAN $1 Whoever makes, issues, circulates, or pays out any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than $1, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. CHATEB 19. -- C ONS PIRA CY Sec. 371. Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States. 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer. § 371. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT OFFENSE OR TO DEFRAUD UNITED STATES If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such con- spiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor. § 372. CONSPIRACY TO IMPEDE OR INJURE OFFICER If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or Dis- trict conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any per- son from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinlder, or impede him in the discharge of his oflicial duties, each of such per- sons shall he fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than six years, or both. CHAPTER 21.--CONTEMPTS CONSTITUTING CRIMES Sec. 401. Power of court. 402. Criminal contempts. § 401. POWER OF COURT A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as- (1) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (2) Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; (3) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command. § 402. CRIMINAL CONTEMPTS Any person, corporation or association willfully disobeying any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any district 701

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