with intent to evade or avoid any duty or liability imposed or required by law, shall be imprisoned at hard labor not less than one year nor more than five years, or be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both such punishments may be imposed.

SEC. 19. That every person who without lawful excuse is possessed of any blank certificate of citizenship provided by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, with intent unlawfully to use the same, shall be imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years or be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 80.

SEC. 5426. Every person who in any manner uses for the purpose of registering as a voter, or as evidence of a right to vote, or otherwise, unlawfully, any order, certificate of citizenship, or certificate, judgment, or exemplification, showing any person to be admitted to be a citizen, whether heretofore or hereafter issued or made, knowing that such order or certificate, judgment, or exemplification has been unlawfully issued or made; and every person who unlawfully uses, or attempts to use, any such order or certificate, issued to or in the name of any other person, or in a fictitious name, or the name of a deceased person, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than three hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

1 order, certificate, judgment, or exemplification has been un

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lawfully issued or made; or whoever shall unlawfully use,

or attempt to use, any such order or certificate, issued to or

in the name of any other person, or in a fictitious name or

5 the name of a deceased person, shall be fined not more than

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one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (R. S., s. 5426.)

SEC. 81. Whoever shall knowingly use any certificate

9 of naturalization heretofore or which hereafter may be granted 10 by any court, which has been or may be procured through fraud or by false evidence, or which has been or may here12 after be issued by the clerk or any other officer of the court 13 without any appearance and hearing of the applicant in court 14 and without lawful authority; or whoever, for any fraudu15 lent purpose whatever, shall falsely represent himself to be a 16 citizen of the United States without having been duly admit17 ted to citizenship, shall be fined not more than one thousand 18 dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (R. S., s. 5428.)

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SEC. 82. [Whoever in any proceeding under or by virtue

of any law relating to the naturalization of aliens shall know22 ingly swear falsely in any case where an oath is made or affi23 davit taken shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars 24 and imprisoned not more than five years.] (R. S., s. 5395.)

SEC. 81.

SEC. 5428. Every person who knowingly uses any certificate of naturalization heretofore granted by any court or hereafter granted, which has been or may be procured through fraud or by false evidence, or has been or may be issued by the clerk, or any other officer of the court without any appearance and hearing of the applicant in court and without lawful authority; and every person who falsely represents himself to be a citizen of the United States, without having been duly admitted to citizenship, for any fraudulent purpose whatever, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

SEC. 82.

Taking false oath in naturalization.

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SEC. 5395. In all cases where any oath or affidavit is made or taken under or by virtue of any law relating to the naturalization of aliens, or in any proceedings under such laws, any person taking or making such oath or affidavit who knowingly swears falsely, shall be punished by imprisonment not more 254, s. 1, v. 16, p. than five years, nor less than one year, and by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. (See ss. 2165-2174.)

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SEC. 83. The provisions of the five sections last pre

2 ceding shall apply to all proceedings had or taken, or at3 tempted to be had or taken, before any court in which any

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to be commenced, and whether such court was vested by law 6 with jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings or not. (R. S.,

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s. 5429.)

SEC. 84. Whoever, with intent that any person shall

9 perform service or labor of any kind on board of any vessel 10 engaged in trade and commerce among the several States or 11 with foreign nations, or on board of any vessel of the United 12 States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable 13 water of the United States, shall procure or induce, or attempt to procure or induce, another, by force or threats or by repre15 sentations which he knows or believes to be untrue, or while 16 the person so procured or induced is intoxicated or under the 17 influence of any drug, to go on board of any such vessel, or to 18 sign or in any wise enter into any agrement to go on board 19 of any such vessel to perform service or labor thereon; or 20 whoever shall knowingly detain on board of any such vessel 21 any person so procured or induced to go on board thereof, or to enter into any agreement to go on board thereof, by any 23 means herein defined; or whoever shall knowingly aid or abet 24 in the doing of any of the things herein made unlawful, shall 25 be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned

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SEC. 83.

SEC. 5429. The provisions of the five preceding sections shall apply to all proceedings had or taken, or attempted to be had or taken, before any court in which any proceeding for naturalization may be commenced or attempted to be commenced. (See ss. 2165-2174.)

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SEC. 84.

CHAP. 2539.—An Act To amend sections one, two, and three of an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit shanghaiing in the United States," approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.

Whoever, with intent that any person shall perform service or labor of any kind on board of any vessel engaged in trade and commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or on board of any vessel of the United States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable water of the United States, shall procure or induce, or attempt to procure or induce, another, by force or threats or by representatives which he knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person so procured or induced is intoxicated or under the influence of any drug, to go on board of any such vessel, or to sign or in any wise enter into any agreement to go on board of any such vessel to perform service or labor thereon, or whoever shall knowingly detain on board of any such vessel any person so procured or induced to go on board thereof or to enter into any agreement to go on board thereof by any means herein defined, or whoever shall knowingly aid or abet in the doing of any of the things herein made unlawful, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

March 2, 1907, 34 Stat. L., 1233.

Shipping. Shanghaiing prohibited.