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760 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 [62 STAT. that the defendant pay to the Indian owner a sum equal to twice the just value of the property so taken, injured, or destroyed. If such offender shall be unable to pay a sum at least equal to the just value or amount, whatever such payment shall fall short of the same shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States. If such offender cannot be apprehended and brought to trial, the amount of such property shall be paid out of the Treasury. But no Indian shall be entitled to any payment out of the Treasury of the United States, for any such property, if he, or any of the nation to which he belongs, have sought private revenge, or have attempted to obtain satisfaction by any force or violence. CHAPTER 65. -- KID NA PIN G Sec. 1201. Transportation. 1202. Ransom money. § 1201. TRANSPORTATION (a) Whoever knowingly transports in interstate or foreign com- merce, any person who has been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted, or carried away and held for ransom or reward or otherwise, except, in the case of a minor, by a parent thereof, shall be punished (1) by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed, and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend, or (2) by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, if the death penalty is not imposed. (b) The failure to release the victim within seven days after he shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kid- naped abducted, or carried away shall create a rebuttable presump- tion that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. (c) If two or more persons conspire to violate this section and one or more of such persons do any overt act to effect the object of the con- spiracy, each shall be punished as provided in subsection (a). § 1202. RANSOM MONEY Whoever receives, possesses, or disposes of any money or other prop- erty, or any portion thereof, which has at any time been delivered as ransom or reward in connection with a violation of section 1201 of this title, knowing the same to be money or property which has been at any time delivered as such ransom or reward, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. CHAPTE 567. -L AB OB Sec. 1231. Transportation of strikebreakers. 1232 Enticement of workman from armory or arsenal. § 1231. TRANSPORTATION OF STRIKEBREAKERS Whoever willfully transports in interstate or foreign commerce any person who is employed or is to be employed for the purpose of obstruct- mg or interfering by force or threats with (1) peaceful picketing by employees during any labor controversy affecting wages, hours, or con- ditions of labor, or (2) the exercise by employees of any of the rights of self-organization or collective bargaining; or Whoever is knowingly transported in or travels interstate or foreign commerce for any of the purposes enumerated in this section- Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. This section shall not apply to common carriers.