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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 755 § 1025. FALSE PRETENSES ON HIGH SEAS AND OTHER WATERS Whoever, upon any waters or vessel within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, by any fraud, or false pre- sense, obtains from any person anything of value, or procures the execution and delivery of any instrument of writing or conveyance of real or personal property, or the signature of any person, as maker, endorser, or guarantor, to or upon any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness, or fraudu- lently sells, barters, or disposes of any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or other evidence of indebtedness, for value, knowing the same to be worthless, or knowing the signature of the maker, endorser, or guarantor thereof to have been obtained by any false pretenses, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; but if the amount, value or the face value of anything so obtained does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 1026. COMPROMISE, ADJUSTMENT, OR CANCELLATION OF FARM INDEBT- EDNESS Whoever knowingly makes any false statement for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the Secretary of Agriculture, or of any person acting under his authority, in connection with any com- promise, adjustment, or cancellation of any farm indebtedness as pro- vided by sections 1150, 1150a, and 1150b of Title 12, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. CHAnEB 49.- - tfUrrVES FBO JUSTICE Sec. 1071. Concealing person from arrest. 1072. Concealing escaped prisoner. 1073. Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony. § 1071. CONCEALING PERSON FROM ARREST Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. § 1072. CONCEALING ESCAPED PRISONER Whoever willfully harbors or conceals any prisoner after his escape from the custody of the Attorney General or from a Federal penal or correctional institution, shall be imprisoned not more than three years. § 1073. FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION OR GIVING TESTIMONY Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for mur- der, kidnaping, burglary, robbery, mayhem, rape, assault with a dan- gerous weapon, or extortion accompanied by threats of violence, or attempt to commit any of the foregoing offenses as they are defined either at common law or by the laws of the place from which the fugi- tive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary is charged, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Violations of this section may be prosecuted only in the Federal judicial district in which the original crime was alleged to have been committed or in which the person was held in custody or confinement.

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