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–478– -478§ 1814. Falsifying jury lists Whoever, being an officer or person required by law to: (1) certify to the list of persons selected as jurors, maliciously, corruptly or willfully certifies to a false or incorrect list, or a list containing other names than those selected; or (2) write down the names placed on the certified lists on separate pieces of paper, does not write down and place in the jury box the same names that are on the certified list and no more and no less than are on that list— shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1815. Preventing or dissuading witness from attending Whoever willfully prevents or dissuades a person who is or may become a witness from attending upon a trial, proceeding or inquiry, authorized by law, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1816. Deceiving witness to affect testimony .i Whoever practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits a false statement, representation, token or writing, to a witness or person about to be called as a witness upon a trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation authorized by law, with intent to affect the testimony of the witness, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1817. Preparing false evidence Whoever prepares a false or antedated book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced, for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose, as genuine or true, upon a trial, proceeding or inquiry, authorized by law, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1818. Offering false documents in evidence Whoever, upon a trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation authorized or permitted by law, offers in evidence as genuine or true, a book, paper, document, record or other instrument in writing, knowing it to have been forged or fraudulently altered or antedated, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1819. Destruction or concealment of evidence Whoever, knowing that a book, paper, record, instrument in writing or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon a trial, inquiry or investigation authorized by law, willfully destroys or conceals it, with intent thereby to prevent it from being produced, shall be fined not more than $6,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. § 1820. Disclosure of making of affidavit, complaint or information for felony Whoever, being a judge. United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, or clerk, or an employee in the office of any such official, willfully discloses, except in the issuance or execution, or in the furtherance of execution, of a warrant of arrest, the fact of an affidavit of complaint or information having been made for a felony, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both.

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