§217 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

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People in the U.S. military or navy must not buy, sell, trade, or otherwise gain from captured or abandoned property. If they get such property, they must tell an agent chosen under this law and hand the property over right away. Officers, sutlers, soldiers, marines, or anyone who breaks this rule commits a misdemeanor. They can be fined up to $5,000 and jailed for up to three years. Cases can be tried in any civil or military court that can hear them.

Title 50, §217

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All persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from buying or selling, trading, or in any way dealing in captured or abandoned property, whereby they shall receive or expect any profit, benefit, or advantage to themselves, or any other person, directly or indirectly connected with them; and it shall be the duty of such person whenever such property comes into his possession or custody, or within his control, to give notice thereof to some agent, appointed by virtue of this chapter, and to turn the same over to such agent without delay. Any officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, or any sutler, soldier, or marine, or other person who shall violate any provision of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than $5,000, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years. Violations of this section shall be cognizable before any court, civil or military, competent to try the same.

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 5313 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 10, 13 Stat. 377.

§217 Trading in captured or abandoned property

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Title 50, §217

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