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PUBLIC LAW 87-665-SEPT. 19, 1962
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"Whoe\ er injures any party or witness in his person or property on account of his attending or having attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation, or on account of his testifying or having testified to any matter pending therein; or "Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act willfully removes from any place, conceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material which is the subject of such demand; or "Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which such proceeding is being had before such department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress— "Shall be fined not more than $6,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." (b) The analysis of chapter 73 of title 18 of United States Code is amended so that the title of section 1505 shall read therein as follows: "1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees." SAVING PROVISION
SEC. 7. Nothing contained in this Act shall impair the authority of the Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, or any antitrust investigator to (a) lay before any grand jury impaneled before any district court of the United States any evidence concerning any alleged antitrust violation, (b) invoke the power of any such court to compel the production of any evidence before any such grand jury, or (c) institute any proceeding for the enforcement of any order or process issued in execution of such power, or to punish disobedience of any such order or process by any person, including a natural person. Approved September 19, 1962.
Public Law 87-665 AN ACT September 19, 1962
[H. R. 10493]
Crimes and offensesFederal prisoners, d i s c h a r g e date. 62 Stat. 853.
To amend title 18, United States Code, section 4163, relating to discharge of prisoners.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejrresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4163 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "Except as hereinafter provided a prisoner shall be released at the expiration of his term of sentence less the time deducted for good conduct. A certificate of such deduction shall be entered on the commitment by the warden or keeper. If such release date falls upon a Saturday, a Sunday, or on a Monday which is a legal holiday at the place of confinement, the prisoner may be released at the discretion of the warden or keeper on the preceding Friday. If such release date falls on a holiday which falls other than on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, the prisoner may be released at the discretion of the warden or keeper on the day preceding the holiday." Approved September 19, 1962.
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