PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 Ante, p. 701. Ante, p. 802 . 41 U.8.C ., Supp. I, i 103. § 3282. OFFENSES NOT CAPITAL Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense, not capital, unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within three years next after such offense shall have been committed. § 3283. CUSTOMS AND SLAVE TRADE VIOLATIONS No person shall be prosecuted, tried or punished for any violation of the customs laws or the slave trade laws of the United States unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within five years next after the commission of the offense. § 3284. CONCEALMENT OF BANKRUPT'S ASSETS The concealment of assets of a bankrupt or other debtor shall be deemed to be a continuing offense until the debtor shall have been finally discharged or a discharge denied, and the period of limitations shall not begin to run until such final discharge or denial of discharge. § 3285. CRIMINAL CONTEMPT No proceeding for criminal contempt within section 402 of this title shall be instituted against any person, corporation or association unless begun within one year from the date of the act complained of; nor shall any such proceeding be a bar to any criminal prosecution for the same act. § 3286. SEDUCrrIONON VESSEL OF UNITED STATES No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for seduction in violation of section 2198 of this title unless indictment is found or the information is filed within one year after the vessel on which the offense was committed arrives at its port of destination. § 3287. WARTIME SUSPENSION OF LIMITATIONS When the United States is at war the running of any statute of limitations applicable to any offense (1) involving fraud or attempted fraud against the United States or any agency thereof in any manner, whether by conspiracy or not, or (2) committed in connection with the acquisition, care, handling, custody, control or disposition of any real or personal property of the United States, or (3) committed in connection with the negotiation, procurement, award, performance, payment for, interim financing, cancelation, or other termination or settlement, of any contract, subcontract, or purchase order which is connected with or related to the prosecution of the war, or with any disposition of termination inventory by any war contractor or Gov- ernment agency, shall be suspended until three years after the termi- nation of hostilities as proclaimed by the President or by a concurrent resolution of Congress. Definitions of terms in section 103 of Title 41 shall apply to similar terms used in this section. § 3288. REINDICTMENT WHERE DEFECT FOUND AFTER PERIOD OF LIMITA- TIONS Whenever an indictment is dismissed for any error, defect or irregu- larity with respect to the grand jury, or is found otherwise defective or insufficient for any cause, after the period prescribed by the appli- cable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned not later than the end of the next succeeding regular term of such court, following the term at which such indictment was found defective or insufficient, during which a grand jury shall be in session which new indictment shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. [62 STAT.
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