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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 § 647. RECEIVING LOAN FROM COURT OFFICER Whoever knowingly receives, from a clerk or other officer of a court of the United States, as a deposit, loan, or otherwise, any money belonging in the registry of such court, is guilty of embezzlement, and shall be fned not more than the amount embezzled or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 648. CUSTODIANS, GENERALLY, MISUSING PUBLIC FUNDS Whoever, being an officer or other person charged by any Act of Congress with the safe-keeping of the public moneys, loans, uses, or converts to his own use, or deposits in any bank or exchanges for other funds, except as specially allowed by law, any portion of the public moneys intrusted to him for safe-keeping, is guilty of embezzlement of the money so loaned, used, converted, deposited, or exchanged, and shall be fined in a sum equal to the amount of money so embezzled or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 649. CUSTODIANS FAILING TO DEPOSIT MONEYS; PERSONS AFFECTED (a) Whoever, having money of the United States in his possession or under his control, fails to deposit it with the Treasurer or some public depositary of the United States, when required so to do by the Secretary of the Treasury or the head of any other proper department or agency or by the General Accounting Office, is guilty of embezzle- ment, and shall be fined in a sum equal to the amount of money embezzled or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled is $100 or less, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (b) This section and sections 643, 648, 650 and 653 of this title shall apply to all persons charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of the public money, whether such persons be charged as receivers or depositaries of the same. § 650. DEPOSITARIES FAILING TO SAFEGUARD DEPOSITS If the Treasurer of the United States or any public depositary fails to keep safely all moneys deposited by any disbursing officer or dis- bursing agent, as well as all moneys deposited by any receiver, collec- tor, or other person having money of the United States, he is guilty of embezzlement, and shall be fined in a sum equal to the amount of money so embezzled or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 651. DISBURSING OFFICER FALSELY CERTIFYING FULL PAYMENT Whoever, being an officer charged with the disbursement of the public moneys, accepts, receives, or transmits to the General Account- ing Office to be allowed in his favor any receipt or voucher from a creditor of the United States without having paid the full amount specified therein to such creditor in such funds as the officer received for disbursement, or in such funds as he may be authorized by law to take in exchange, shall be fined in double the amount so withheld or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; but if the amount withheld does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 652. DISBURSING OFFICER PAYING LESSER IN LInr OF LAWFUL AMOUNT Whoever, being an officer, clerk, agent, employee, or other person charged with the payment of any appropriation made by Congress, 727 Ante, p. 726; supra; infra; post, p. 728.

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