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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 § 439. INDIAN ENROLLMENT CONTRACTS Unless the United States consents, all contracts made with any per- son or persons, applicants for enrollment as citizens in the Five Civil- ized Tribes for compensation for services in relation thereto, shall be void, and- Whoever collects or receives any moneys from any such applicants for citizenship, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. § 440. MAIL CONTRACTS Whoever, being a person employed in the Postal Service, becomes interested in any contract for carrying the mail, or acts as agent, with or without compensation, for any contractor or person offering to become a contractor in any business before the Post Office Depart- ment, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 441. POSTAL SUPPLY CONTRACTr No contract for furnishing supplies to the Post Office Department or the Postal Service shall be made with any person who has entered, or proposed to enter, into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for furnishing such supplies, or to fix a price or prices therefor, or who has made any agreement, or given or performed, or promised to give or perform, any consideration whatever to induce any other person not to bid for any such contract, or to bid at a specified price or prices thereon. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the offender is a contractor for furnishing such supplies his contract may be annulled. § 442. PRINTING CONTRACTS Neither the Public Printer, superintendent of printing, superintend- ent of binding, nor any of their assistants shall, during their continu- ance in office, have any interest, direct or indirect, in the publication of any newspaper or periodical, or in any printing, binding, engraving, or lithograplhig of any kind, or in any contract for furnishing paper or other material connected with the public printing, binding, litho- graphing, or engraving. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 443. WVA CONTRACTS Whoever willfully secretes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys- (a) any records of a war contractor relating to the negotiation, award, performance, payment, interim financing, cancellation or other termination, or settlement of a war contract of $25,000 or more; or (b) any records of a war contractor or purchaser relating to any disposition of termination inventory in which the considera- tion received by any war contractor or any government agency is $5,000 or more, before the lapse of (1) five years after such disposition of termination inventory by such war contractor or government agency, or (2) five years after the final settlement of such war contract, or (3) five years after the termination of hostilities in the present war as proclaimed by the President or by a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, whichever applicable period is longer, shall, if a corporation, be fined not more than $50,000, and, if a natural person, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The Director of Contract Settlement, by regulation, may authorize 704 [62 STAT.

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