348 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



paitment .^hall l)e nuule by the Treasury Department at Washington, 

 District of Cohinibia, except in cases of public buildings located so 

 remote from the seat of government as to occasion hardship by undue 

 delay in making payments to contractors, in every such exceptional 

 case the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, require the 

 collector of customs at or nearest the place where such building is 

 being constructed to make the disbursement, as provided in hecFion 

 seventeen hundred and .sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of the 

 United States, but in such exceptional cases no additional compensa- 

 tion shall l>e paid to any collector of customs for disbursements made 

 hereunder; and hereafter no compensation or commissions shall be 

 allowed for the disl)ur.sement of any appropriation for the construc- 

 tion, extension, enlargement, remodeling, or repairs of any public 

 building under the control of the Treasury Department, except to 

 disbursing agents heretofore appointed and who ha\e qualified by 

 gi\ing bonds. 



Act Miinli 4. lltll. <•. 2sr>. s. 1, 36 Stat. 1387. 



These ;ire iirovisions of the sundry civil appropriation act for tlie 

 fisciil ye.ir 1912. citetl al)ove. 



Rev. St. sec. ITCi;', mentioned above, is set forth on p. 286, ante, under 

 " (^tficers. Clerks, .•ind Employees." 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 



Forging bonds, bids, public records, etc.. or transmitting same, for the purpose 

 of defrauding the United States; pimishment. 



Sec. 28. Whoever shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, 

 or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counter- 

 feited, or willingly aid, or assist in the false making, altering, forging, 

 or counterfeiting, any bond, bid. proposal, contract, guarantee, secur- 

 ity, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the pur- 

 pose of defrauding the I"'^nited States; or shall utter or publish as true, 

 or cause to be uttefed or published as true, or have in his possession 

 with the intent to utter or publish as true, any .such false, forged, 

 altered, or counterfeited bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, 

 security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing, for 

 the purpose of defrauding the United States, knowing the same to be 

 false, forged, altered, or counterfeited : or shall transmit to, or present 

 at, of cause or procure to be transmitted to, or presented at, the office 

 of any oflicer of the TTnited States, any such false, forged, altered, or 

 counterfeited bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official 

 bond. i)ul)lic record, affidavit, or other writing, knowing the same to be 

 false, forged, altered, or counterfeited, for the purpose of defrauding 

 the United States, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, 

 or im|)risoned not more than ten yeai-s, or both. 



Act March 4, 1009, c. 321, s. 28, 35 Stat. 1094. 



This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, ;ind amend the ixMiai 

 laws of the United St.ntes." cited above. incori»or:itinp: therein the pro- 

 visions of Rev. St. sees. 5418 and 5479, which sections are expressly 

 repealed by section 341 of this act. 



Forging deeds, powers of attorney, etc.. or transmitting same, with intent to 

 defraud the United States; punishment. 



Skc. 20. Whoever shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, 

 or (-au.se or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counter- 

 feited, or willingly aid or assist in the false making, altering, forging, 

 or counterfeiting, any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, 



