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60 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 41, 43, 46. 1868. ¤q¤L¤;<;ri¤;¤· than five thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months, l‘lS Il . P Penalty upon nor more than three years. d Th T {H revenue omcers Sec. 6. And be st further enacte , at 1 any officer or agent ap- °' “g°“”]’°’ f pointed and acting under the authority of any revenue law of the United

2;,:]) States shall be guilty of gross neglect in the discharge of any of the duties

¤r>iri¤z. 0* mk- of his office, or shall conspire or collude with any other person to defraud {ggdQ}’l};m“‘,?gfY the United States, or shall make opportunity for any person to defraud, si ns¤gr‘¤1§¤¤¤i·- the United States, or shall do, or omit to do, any act with intent to enable

,*€9“‘°’&°“d any other person to defraud the United States, or shall make or sign any

pigrinéwdig false certificate or return in any case where be is by law or regulation re. quired to make a certificate or return, or having knowledge or information of the violation of any revenue law by any person, or of fraud committed by any person against the United States under any revenue law of the United States, shall fa.il_t0 report, in writing, such knowledge or information to his next superior officer, and to the commissioner of internal Fine and im- revenue, he shall, on conviction, be fined not less than one thousand P"‘*°“m°“”· dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than three years. Prosecunons Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no compromise, or discontinu-

 b§‘S'“°°“‘ ance, or nolla prasequi of any prosecution under this act shall be allowed

,,m,,,,{t,,gg(,_ vgitheut the pgrmissipn in writing of the Secretary of the Treasury and t e ttorney- enera . Approved, March 31, 1868. M _ 19 1868. CHAP. XLIII.-411 Act making A pr rialions or th E ses 0 the Tial th

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our ing une! irty, cig teen tuner and sixty-eight, an jbr other Purposes. S Be iyycted by the0Senate and Heier; oljilffepgesetnietives of the 'S/nite? . tales o memca m ongress assem eat the 0 owing sums e an A 1 , _ · tionsgdiqekgen- the same are hereby, appropriated out Sr any money m the treasury not ¤¢¤ if i{¥¤i>¤;<>h- otherwise appropriated for the payment of the expenses of the trial of '°°" m°* °' the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and other contingent expenses of the gengte off the United States for the year ending June thirty, eighteen lun re an six y—ew 1 : PFC`;`] e1:pe_r;s}es{>]f'?h(e éxgil ofmthehimpeaghéuelnt of Andrew Johnson, _ residen 0 e m e es, u thousand 0 rs. M¤¤f°"¤¤°Q¤¤· For miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars. c¤l>¤*°lP¤l¤<=°· For deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of the Capitol police, andhfor additional policemen and incidental expenses thereof} seventeen thousand dollars. M*li“°¤¤l For deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of additional me`- M°"°"g°"‘ sengers, fifteen thousand dollars. b Armzovmo, May 19, 1868. _ May 20, 1868. CHAP. XLVI.—— An Act to grankutbc Rielé of Way lo the Whitdtall and Plattsburgh 'road ompany. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of ihe United Plmlgelgnél and States of rimerica in Congress assembled, That the Whitehall and Platts- R_ Clgglfmvé burgb Railroad Company be, and is hereby, authorized to locate, conqmum mgm of struct, and operate its railroad across the land belonging to the United “'•*Y· Ctzxtes Plattsburgh, in the State of New York, upon a liue commencing m the highvray leading from Plattsburgh to Peru, at a point one hundred feet north Itrom the north line of the enclosure surrounding the governinch; bulddmgs, rtanning thence in a nortbeasterly direction about sixteen iuu re act tot e bank of Luke Champlain thence northward] alonv the bank of said lake to the north line of the land belonging to tbeyUnited States, such line of said road being designated on a map of survey of the same, made by James P: Campbell, and new on file in the office of the Provlso. Secretary of War: Provided, that the right of way herein granted shall