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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2n SESS.-CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 803 taken, detained, or seized by any officer or other person under the authority of any revenue law of the United States, or by any person authorized to make searches and seizures, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. § 2234. AUTHORITY EXCEEDD IN EXECUTING WARRANT Whoever, in executing a search warrant, willfully exceeds his authority or exercises it with unnecessary severity, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year. § 2235. SEARCH WARRANT PROCURED MALICIOUSLY Whoever maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant to be issued and executed, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year. § 2236. SEARCHES WITHOUT WARRANT Whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof, engaged in the enforcement of any law of the United States, searches any private dwelling used and occupied as such dwelling without a warrant directing such search, or maliciously and without reasonable cause searches any other build- ing or property without a search warrant, shall be fined for a first offense not more than $1,000; and, for a subsequent offense, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. This section shall not apply to any person- a) serving a warrant of arrest; or (b) arresting or attempting to arrest a person committing or attempting to commit an offense in his presence, or who has com- mitted or is suspected on reasonable grounds of having committed a felony; or (c) making a search at the request or invitation or with the consent of the occupant of the premises. CHAPTER 111.-SHIPPING See. 2271. Conspiracy to destroy vessel. 2272. Destruction of vessel by owner. 2273. Destruction of vessel by nonowner. 2274. Destruction or misuse of vessel by person in charge. 2275. Firing or tampering with vessel. 2276. Breaking and entering vessel. 2277. Explosives or dangerous weapons aboard vessels. 2278. Explosives on vessels carrying steerage passengers. 2279. Boarding vessels before arrival. § 2271. CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY VESSELS Whoever, on the high seas, or within the United States, willfully and corruptly conspires, combines, and confederates with any other person, such other person being either within or without the United States, to cast away or otherwise destroy any vessel, with intent to injure any person that may have underwritten or may thereafter underwrite any policy of insurance thereon or on goods on board thereof, or with intent to injure any person that has lent or advanced, or may lend or advance, any money on such vessel on bottomry or respondentia; or Whoever, within the United States, builds, or fits out any vessel to be cast away or destroyed, with like intent- Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. § 2272. DESTRUCTION OF VESSEL BY OWNEB Whoever, upon the high seas or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, willfully

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