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1106 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 321. 1909. deflggma “*°‘° *3** · Sec. 94. The refusal of any person, whether in or out of office, 2. see. ws, p. charged with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of the public 1°°5‘ money to pay any draft, order, or warrant, drawn upon him by the proper accounting officer of the Treasury, for any public money in his ands belonging to the United States, no matter in what capacity the same may have been received, or may be held, or to transfer or disburse any such money, romptly, upon the legal reguirement of any authorized officer, shall be deemed, upon the trial o an indictment agalinst lsuch person for embezzlement, prima facie evidbence of such em ezz ement. s,£yi¤¤¤¤¤¤f ¤<>¤v<¤· Sec. 95. If any officer charged with the disbursement of the public R.` s., see. 5496, p. moneys accepts, receives, or transmits to the Treasury Department

  • °°i’· to be allowed in his favor any recei t or voucher from a creditor of the

United States without having paid) to such' creditor in such funds as the officer received for disbursement, or in such funds as he may be authorized by law to take in exchange, the full amount specified in such receipt or voucher, every such act is an act of conversion by such lpfficer to his own use of the amount specified in such receipt or vouc er. ,ug°,,_*,’f,f,{,{’,f,°,;;$°,§f,; Sec. 96. Every banker, broker, or other person not an authorized iwsitofpuuucmcney. de ositary of public moneys, who shall knowingly receive from any Iggy S" ”°°' mz P` disibursing officer, or collector of internal revenue, or other a ent of the United States, any public money on deposit, or by way of Toan or accommodation, with or without interest, or otherwise than in pay- ment of a debt against the United States, or shall use, transfer, convert, appropriate, oraplply any portion of the public money for anly purpose not prescribe y law; and every president, cashier, te er, director, or other officer of any bank or banking association who shall violate any provision of this section is guilty of embezzlement of the public money so deposited, loaned, transferred, used, converted, Punishment for- appfopriated, or applied, and shall be fined not more than the amount em ezzled, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. m§€¤;¤¤b,${;;;¤g,jg; 0,*;; Sec. 97. Any officer connected with, or em(ployed in, the Internal- @{,1 20 280 Revenue Service of the United States, an any assistant of such °‘ ·" ‘ officer, who shall embezzle or wrongfully convert to his own use any money or other property of the United States, and any officer of the United States or any assistant of such officer, who shall embezzle or wrongfully convert to his own use any money or property which may have come into his ossession or under his control in the execution of such office or emplbyment, or under color or claim of authority as such officer or assistant, whether the same shall be the mone or property of the United States or of some other person or party, sliall, y,,,,m,,,,e,,, fog where the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of the United States, be fined not more than the value of the money and property thuiemlbezzled or converted, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or ot . beogxrscggfgajczgug Sec. 98. Whoever, being an_ officer of the United States, shall ,,,§p,.,,m,,F,_ P knowingly contract for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public ,0,% °°°- 5"°"· P- building, or for any public improvement, to pay a larger amount than the specific sum appropriated for such purpose, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than two vears. w‘{g,‘;;fg§*;,$,';j;f§;§c€ Sec. 99. Whoever, being a clerk or other officer of a court of the wg, S.. ssc. p. United States, shall fail forthwith to deposit any money belonging in ‘ the registry of the court, or hereafter paid into court or received by the officers thereof, with the Treasurer, assistant treasurer, or a designated depositary of the United States, in the name and to the _ credit of such court, or shall retam or convert to his own use or to the

  • "m'”"”*°“”*°*· use of another any such money, is guilty of embezzlement, and shall

www u H QE- be fined not more than the amount embezzled, or im risoned not c,,,,,, "° ‘ more than ten years, or both; but nothing herein shafl be held to