SEC. 174.

SEC. 5. That the several judges of courts established under the laws of the United States and the commissioners of such courts may, upon proper oath or affirmation, within their respective jurisdictions, issue a search warrant authorizing any marshal of the United States, or any other person specially mentioned in such warrant, to enter any house, store, building, boat, or other place named in such warrant, in the daytime only, in which there shall appear probable cause for believing that the manufacture of counterfeit money, or the concealment of counterfeit money, or the manufacture or concealment of counterfeit obligations or coins of the United States or of any foreign Government, or the manufacture or concealment of dies, hubs, molds, plates, or other things fitted or intended to be used for the manufacture of counterfeit money, coins, or obligations of the United States or of any foreign Government, or of any bank doing business under the authority of the United States or of any State or Territory thereof, or of any bank doing business under the authority of any foreign Government or of any political division of any foreign Government, is being carried on, or practiced, and there search for any such counterfeit money, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things, and for any such obligations, and if any such be found, to seize and secure the same and to make return thereof to the proper authority;

And all such counterfeit money, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things and all such counterfeit obligations so seized shall be forfeited to the United States. [February 10, 1891.]

Issue of search

warrants in cer

tain cases for suspected counter

feit obligations, securities, or coin, or material for counterfeiting.

I Supp., p. 890; 26 Stat. L., p. 724.

I Supp., p. 890.

Forfeiture.

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hubs, molds, plates, or other things fitted or intended to be

used for the manufacture of counterfeit money, coins, or obliga

tions of the United States or of any foreign government, or

of any bank doing business under the authority of the United

States or of any State or Territory thereof, or of any bank

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or of any political division of any foreign government, is 9 being carried on or practiced, and there search for any such 10 counterfeit money, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other 11 things, and for any such obligations, and if any such be 12 found, to seize and secure the same and to make return thereof 13 to the proper authority; and all such counterfeit money, coins, 14 dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things, and all such coun15 terfeit obligations so seized shall be forfeited to the United 16 States.] (10 Feb., 1891, 26 Stat. L., 743, c. 127, s. 5; 1 17 Supp., 890.)

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SEC. 175. In all cases where the charter of any corpo19 ration which has been or may be created by Act of Congress

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has expired or may hereafter expire, if any director, officer,

or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any 22 agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession

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or under his control the property of the corporation for the 24 purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, shall

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SEC. 175.

SEC. 5437. In all cases where the charter of any corporation which has been or may be created by act of Congress has expired or may hereafter expire, if any director, officer, or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and obligations, knowingly issues, reissues, or utters as money, or in any other way knowingly puts in circulation any bill, note, check, draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such corporation whose charter has expired, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority derived therefrom, or if any person knowingly aids in any such act, he shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one year nor more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. But nothing herein shall be construed to make it unlawful for any person, not being such director, officer, or agent of the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his control the property of the corporation for the purpose hereinbefore set forth, who has received or may hereafter receive such bill, note, check, draft, or other security, bona fide and in the ordinary transactions of business, to utter as money or otherwise circulate the same.

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way knowingly put in circulation any bill, note, check, draft,

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3 corporation whose charter has expired, or by any officer

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derived therefrom, or if any person shall knowingly aid

in any such act, he shall be fined not more than ten thousand

7 dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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for any person, not being such director, officer, or agent of 10 the corporation, or any trustee thereof, or any agent of such

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trustee, or any person having in his possession or under his

control the property of the corporation for the purpose herein13 before set forth, who has received or may hereafter receive 14 such bill, note, check, draft, or other security, bona fide and 15 in the ordinary transactions of business, to utter as money or 16 otherwise circulate the same. (R. S., s. 5437.)

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SEC. 176. [It shall not be lawful to design, engrave, 18 print, or in any manner make or execute, or to utter, issue, 19 distribute, circulate, or use any business or professional card, 20 notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the 21 likeness or similitude of any circulating note or other obliga22 tion or security of any banking association organized or acting 23 under the laws of the United States which has been or may 24 be issued under any Act of Congress, or to write, print, or 25 otherwise impress upon any such note, obligation, or security,

SEC. 176.

SEC. 5188. It shall not be lawful to design, engrave, print, or in any manner make or execute, or to utter, issue, distribute, circulate, or use, any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement, in the likeness or similitude of any circulating note or other obligation or security of any banking association organized or acting under the laws of the United States which has been or may be issued under this title, or any Act of Congress, or to write, print, or otherwise impress upon any such note, obligation, or security any business or professional card, notice or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement of any matter or thing whatever. Every person who violates this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, recoverable one-half to the use of the informer.