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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 210. Penalties for unauthorized trading, etc.; jurisdiction of prosecutions
Every officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval,
and every sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who takes, or
causes to be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or
to any other point to be thence taken into such State, or who
transports or sells, or otherwise disposes of therein, any goods,
wares, or merchandise whatsoever, except in pursuance of license
and authority of the President, as provided in this chapter, or who
makes any false statement or representation upon which license and
authority is granted for such transportation, sale, or other
disposition, or who, under any license or authority obtained,
willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or otherwise disposes of
any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such as are in good
faith so licensed and authorized, or who willfully and knowingly
transports, sells, or disposes of the same, or any portion thereof,
in violation of the terms of such license or authority, or of any
rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury
concerning the same, or who is guilty of any act of embezzlement,
of willful misappropriation of public or private money or property,
of keeping false accounts, or of willfully making any false
returns, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
fined not more than $5,000, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not
more than three years. Violations of this section shall be
cognizable before any court, civil or military, competent to try
the same.
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