694 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 [62 STAT. thereof, in connection with or pertaining to the importation, entry, inspection or examination, or appraisement of merchandise or bag- gage, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Evidence, satisfactory to the court, of such soliciting, demanding, exacting, or receiving shall be prima facie evidence that the same was contrary to law. § 214. OFFER TO PROCURE APPOINTIVE PUBLIC OFFICE Whoever pays or offers or promises any money or thing of value, to any person, firm, or corporation in consideration of the use or promise to use any influence to procure any appointive office or place under the United States for any person, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 215. ACCEPTANCE OR SOLICITATION TO OBTAIN APPOINTIVE PUBLIC OFFICE Whoever solicits or receives, either as a political contribution, or for personal emolument, any money or thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any per- son any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 216. PROCUREMENT OF CONTllACT BY OFFICEI OR MEMBER OF CONGRESS Whoever, being a Member of or Delegate to Congress, or a Resident Commissioner, either before or after he has qualified, or being an officer, employee, or agent of the United States, directly or indirectly takes, receives, or agrees to receive, any money or thing of value, for giving, procuring or aiding to procure to or for any person, any con- tract from the United States or from any officer, department or agency thereof; or Whoever, directly or indirectly, offers, gives, or agrees to give any money or thing of value for procuring or aiding to procure, any such contract- Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States. The President may declare void any such contract or agreement. § 217. OFFER OF LOAN OR GRATUITY TO BANK EXAMINER Whoever, being an officer, director or employee of a bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve System or the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or of any National Agricultural Credit Corporation, or of any land bank, national farm loan association or other institution subject to exami- nation by a farm credit examiner, makes or grants any loan or gra- tuity, to any examiner or assistant examiner who examines or has authority to examine such bank, corporation, or institution, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and may be fined a further sum equal to the money so loaned or gratuity given. Pos, p. 05. The provisions of this section and section 218 of this title shall apply to all public examiners and assistant examiners who examine member banks of the Federal Reserve System or insured banks, or National Agricultural Credit Corporations, whether appointed by the Comp- troller of the Currency, by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, by a Federal Reserve Agent, by a Federal Reserve bank or by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or appointed or elected under the laws of any state; but shall not apply to private
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