PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Makes it a crime for any U.S. officer, sutler, soldier, marine, or any other person to bring, carry, sell, or otherwise deal in goods inside a State declared in insurrection unless they have a presidential license. It also covers lying to get a license, using a license to move or sell goods not actually allowed, breaking the license or Treasury rules, embezzling or misusing public or private money or property, keeping false accounts, or making false reports. Anyone who does these things can be charged with a crime, fined up to $5,000, and jailed for up to three years. Cases can be tried in any civil or military court that has authority to hear them.

Title 50, §210

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Every officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, and every sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who takes, or causes to be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or to any other point to be thence taken into such State, or who transports or sells, or otherwise disposes of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, except in pursuance of license and authority of the President, as provided in this chapter, or who makes any false statement or representation upon which license and authority is granted for such transportation, sale, or other disposition, or who, under any license or authority obtained, willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or otherwise disposes of any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such as are in good faith so licensed and authorized, or who willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or disposes of the same, or any portion thereof, in violation of the terms of such license or authority, or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the same, or who is guilty of any act of embezzlement, of willful misappropriation of public or private money or property, of keeping false accounts, or of willfully making any false returns, 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. § 5306 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 10, 13 Stat. 377.

§210 Penalties for Unauthorized Trading, Etc.; Jurisdiction of Prosecutions

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Title 50, §210

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