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–440– -440§ 953. Impersonator making arrest, search, or seizure, or dispossessing a person Whoever falsely represents himself to be an officer, agent, or employee of the United States or a department or agency thereof, and in such assumed character: (1) arrests or detains a person; (2) searches the person, buildings, or other property of a person; (3^ seizes or levies upon property; or (4j dispossesses a person of lands or property— shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years, or both. § 954. Personating another and incurring liability Whoever falsely personates another person and in such assumed character: (1) becomes bail or surety for a party in a proceeding before a court or officer authorized to take the bail or surety; (2) verifies, publishes, acknowledges, or proves, in the name of another person, a written instrument, with intent that the instrument may be recorded, deliveredj or used as true; (3) does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to: (A) a suit or prosecution; (B) pay a sum of money; or (C) incur a charge, forfeiture, or penalty; or (4) does any act whereby a benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to another person— shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment in ]ail for not more than one year or in the penitentiary for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. § 955. Marrying under false personation Whoever falsely personates another person, and in such assumed character marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage relation towards another person, with or without the connivance of the latter, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 956. Receiving money or property in false character Whoever falsely personates another person, and in such assumed character receives money or property, knowing that it is intended to be delivered to the individual so p>ersonated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or to that of another person, or to deprive the true owner thereof, is punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as for larceny of property so received.

CHAPTER 53—FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING Sec. 981. Forging, altering or counterfeiting instrument or record; uttering false instrument. 982. False entries in records or returns. 983. Forgery of public or corporate seals. 984. Sending or delivering forged or false messages with fraudulent intent. 085. Possessing or receiving forged or l)lanl£ bills or notes. 986. Forging or counterfeiting State or municipal securities or obligations. 987. Uttering forged or counterfeit State or municipal securities or obligations. 988. Counterfeiting ticket of common carrier. 989. Restoring cancelled railroad ticket. 990. Altering service center, commissary, retail store, sales store, post exchange, or restaurant check or coupon. 991. Issuing instruments to circulate as money. !)02. Procuring or offering forged instrument to be filed or recorded.

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