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1158 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 321. 1909; V°1·”· PJ"- "An Act to prevent the carrying of obscene literature and articles designed for indecent and immoral use from one State or Territory into another State or Territory," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; V°*-2% P-M "An Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; v°l‘2°·"5°5‘ "An Act to prevent the purchasing of or speculating in claims a ainst the Federal Government by United States officers, ’ approved Fibru twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; v°l‘°°·"°°°‘ "AnaAct to amend section fifty-four hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes, prescribing the punishment for mutilating United States coins, and or uttering or passing or attempting to utter or . pass such mutilated coins," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; V°‘·2°·P·°¤· Section eighteen of "An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven ; V°r °°· P- 442 That part of section one of “A11 Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending Jrme thirteenth, e` hteen hundred and ninety-nine," approved Jrme thirteenth, ejdrteen hrmdred and ninety-eight, which reads as fol-‘ lows: "Pmml§cd, That any person or persons who shall place or cause to be laced any matter an the mails duthe regularweighing period, for the purpose of increasing the wleléht of the mails with intent to cause an increase in the compensation of the railroad mail carrier over whose route such mail matter may pass, shall be deemed guiltly of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be fined ‘ not ess than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned at hard labor not less than thirty davs nor more than five years;" V¤1·¤>.r·¤>9· Section seventeen of "An Act to provide revenue for the Government, and to encourage the industries of the United States," approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; Vol-=Z.r>-1175- Section three of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post·Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other pur- - _ poses," approved March third, nineteen hrmdred and three; Vol M. p- 717- "An Act to protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes," approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eig t; V¤1·¤1.x»-169- ‘ ‘An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain,' approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred) and ninety-seven, approved May fifth, nineteen hundred; v°‘·“·P·‘”· Sections two, three, and four of "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the trans ortation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes/’ approved Mai twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred; V¤i·¤·v-¤- "An Act to prevent the sale of firearms, opium, and intoxicating liquors in certain islands of the Pacific," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two; VM-*=»v·'m· "An Act for the su pression of train robbery in the Territories of the United States ami) elsewhere, and for other purposes/’ approved July first, nineteen hundred and two; "¤¤·<’»¤»x>·'M· "An Act conferring jurisdiction upon the circuit and district courts for the district of South Dakota in certain cases, and for other purposes," approved February second, nineteen hundred and three; V°*-*2-P—12‘¤· "An Act to amend section three of the ‘Act further to revent counterfeiting or manufacturing of dies, tools, or other implements used in manufacturing} and so forth, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one," approved March third, nineteen hundred and three;