300 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTME^'T OF AGRICULTURE. 



demand or obtain from any person or from the United States, or any 

 Department, or any officer of the Government thereof, any money, 

 paper, document, or other valuable thing, shall be fined not more 

 than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, 

 or both. 



Act Mjirch 4, 15)09. e. 321, s. 32, 35 Stat. 1095. , 



This is a .«i'cti<)U of "'An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 



laws of (he I'nited States." cited above, incorporating therein provisions 



of Rev. St. sec. .543S. and act April 18, 1884, c. 26. 23 Stat. 11. Said Rev. 



St. stH-. MS.s and act April 18, 1884, are expressly repealed l>y sei^ion 341 



of this act. 



Bribery of officer of United States; punishment. 



Sec. 39. lAHioever shall promise, offer, or give, or cause or pro- 

 cure to be promised, offered, or given, any money or other thing of 

 vahie, or shall make or tender any contract, undertaking, obligation, 

 gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or 

 conveyance of anything of value, to any officer of the United States, 

 or to any person acting for or on behalf of the United States in any 

 official function, under or by authority of any department or office of 

 the Government thereof, or to any officer or person acting for or on 

 behalf of either House of Congress, or of any committee of either 

 Hou.se, or both Houses thereof, with intent to influence his decision or 

 action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may at 

 any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before him in 

 his official capacity, or in his place of trust or profit, or with intent to 

 influence him to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in. or 

 allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any 

 fraud, on the United States, or to induce him to do or omit to do any 

 act in violation of his lawful duty, shall be fined not more than three 

 times the amount of money or value of the thing so offered, promised, 

 given, nuule, or tendered, or caused or procured to be so offered, 

 promised, given, made, or tendered, and imprisoned not more than 

 three years. 



Act .March 4. 1909, .\ 321, s. 39, 35 Stat. 1095. 



This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 

 laws (if (ho United States," cited above, incorporating therein the provi- 

 Blnns of Rev. Kt. sec. .'i451, which section is expressly repealed by section 

 341 of this act. 



Extortion by officials: punishment. 



Sec. 85. Every officer, clerk, agent, or employee of the United 

 States, and every person representing himself to be or assuming to 

 act as such officer, clerk, agent, or employee, who. under color of his 

 office, clerkship, agency, or employment, or under color of his pre- 

 tended or assumed office, clerkship, agency, or employment, is guilty 

 of exl()r(iou. and every person who shall nitempt any act which 

 if perfornu'd would make him guilty of extortion, shall be fined not 

 more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one 

 year, or both. 



Act March 4. 1909. c. 321. s. S5, 35 Stat. 1104. 



This is a .section of ",\n act to codify, revise, and amend the jienal 

 laws of the I'liKcd States." cit«'d above, incorporating therein the provl- 

 slotis of Rev. St. s(H\ 5481 as jimended by act .Tune 28. 1900. c. 3574, 34 

 .Stilt. .'V4<5. which siiid s«'ciioii Is e.\|'rossly repealed by se.-tion .'541 of this 

 net. 



