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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 797 (b) of this section shall be subject to the punishment provided by said subsection (b) for the taker. (d) Whoever, in committing, or in attempting to commit, any offense defined in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both. (e) Whoever, in committing any offense defined in this section, or in avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such offense, or in freeing himself or attempting to free himself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any person, or forces any person to accompany him without the consent of such person, shall be imprisoned not less than ten years, or punished by death if the verdict of the jury shall so direct. (f) As used in this section the term "bank" means any member B bank of the Federal Reserve System, and any bank, banking asso- ciation, trust company, savings bank, a Federal Savings and Loan Association, or other banking institution organized or operating under the laws of the United States and any bank the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. § 2114. MAIL, MONEY OR OTHER PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES Whoever assaults any person having lawful charge, control, or custody of any mail matter or of any money or other property of the United States, with intent to rob, steal, or purloin such mail matter, money, or other property of the United States, or robs any such person of mail matter, or of any money, or other property of the United States, shall, for the first offense, be imprisoned not more than ten years; and if in effecting or attempting to effect such robbery he wounds the person having custody of such mail, money, or other property of the United States, or puts his life in jeopardy by the use of a dangerous weapon, or for a subsequent offense, shall be imprisoned twenty-five years. § 2115. POST OFFICE Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post office, with intent to commit in such post office, or building or part thereof, so used, any larceny or other depredation, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 2116. RAILWAY OR STEAMBOAT POST OFFICE Whoever, by violence, enters a post-office car, or any part of any car, steamboat, or vessel, assigned to the use of the mail service, or willfully or maliciously assaults or interferes with any postal clerk in the discharge of his duties in connection with such car, steamboat, vessel, or apartment thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. § 2117. RAILROAD CAR ENTERED OR SEAL BROKEN Whoever breaks the seal or lock of any railroad car, vessel, aircraft, motortruck, wagon or other vehicle, containing interstate or foreign shipments of freight or express, or enters any such vehicle with intent in either case to commit larceny therein, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. CHAPTER 105.- -S AB OT A GE Sec. 2151. Definitions. 2152. Fortifications, harbor defenses, or defensive sea areas. 2153. Destruction of war material. 2154 Production of defective war material. 2155. Destruction of national-defense materials. 2156. Production of defective national-defense material.

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