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1 Act to Codify, Revise, and Amend the Penal Laws of the United States 1909

handle is hein.beal/attcyreadmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [PUBLIC-No. 350.1 [S. 2982.1 An Act To codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the penal laws of the United States be, and they hereby are, codified, revised, and amended, with title, chapters, headnotes, and sections, entitled, numbered, and to read as follows: CRIMES. CHAPTER ONE. OFFENSES AGAINST THE EXISTENCE OF .THE GOVERNMENT. See. See. 1. Treason. 6. Seditious conspiracy. 2. Punishment of treason. 7. Recruiting soldiers or sailors to serve 3. Misprision of treason. against the United States. 4. Inciting or engaging in rebellion or 8. Enlistment to serve against the United insurrection. States. 5. Criminal correspondence with foreign governments. SEC. 1. Whoever, owing. allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. SEC. 2. Whoever is convicted of treason shall suffer death; or, at the discretion of the court, shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined not less than ten thousand dollars, to be levied on and collected out of any or all of his property, real and personal, of which he was the owner at the time of committing such treason, any sale or conveyance to the contrary notwithstanding; and every person so convicted of treason shall, moreover, be incapable of hold- mg any office under the United States. %EC. 3. Whoe-ver, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice.of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be imprisoned not more than seven years and fined not more than one thousand dollars. SEC. 4. Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be im- prisoned not more than ten years; or fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both; and shall, moreover, be incapable of holding any office under the United States. SEC. 5. Every citizen of the United States, whether actually resi- dent or abiding within the same, or in any place subject to the

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