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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2n SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 773 § 1584. SALE INTO INVOLUNTARY SERVrrUDE Whoever knowingly and willfully holds to involuntary servitude or sells into any condition of involuntary servitude, any other person for any term, or brings within the United States any person so held, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1585. SEIZURE, DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION OR SALE OF SLAVES Whoever, being a citizen or resident of the United States and a member of the crew or ship's company of any foreign vessel engaged in the slave trade, or whoever, being of the crew or ship's company of any vessel owned in whole or in part, or navigated for, or in behalf of, any citizen of the United States, lands from such vessel, and on any foreign shore seizes any person with intent to make that person a slave, or decoys, or forcibly brings, carries, receives, confines, detains or transports any person as a slave on board such vessel, or, on board such vessel, offers or attempts to sell any such person as a slave, or on the high seas or anywhere on tide water, transfers or delivers to any other vessel any such person with intent to make such person a slave, or lands or delivers on shore from suoh vessel any person with intent to sell, or having previously sold, such person as a slave, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both. § 1586. SERVICE ON VESSELS IN SLAVE TRADE Whoever, being a citizen or resident of the United States, volun- tarily serves on board of any vessel employed or made use of in the transportation of slaves from any foreign country or place to another, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. § 1587. POSSESSION OF SLAVES ABOARD VESSEL Whoever, being the captain, master, or commander of any vessel found in any river, port, bay, harbor, or on the high seas within the jurisdiction of the United States, or hovering off the coast thereof, and having on board any person for the purpose of selling such person as a slave, or with intent to land such person for such purpose, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than four years, or both. § 1588. TRANSPORTATION OF SLAVES FROM UNITED STATES Whoever, being the master or owner or person having charge of any vessel, receives on board any other person with the knowledge or intent that such person is to be carried from any place within the United States to any other place to be held or sold as a slave, or carries away from any place within the United States any such person with the intent that he may be so held or sold as a slave, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. CHAPTER 79.- PE RJURY Sec. 1621. Perjury generally. 1622. Subornation of perjury. § 1621. PERJURY GENERALLY Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury, and shall, except as otherwise expressly

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