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PUBLIC PROPERTY. 355 



ACT MARCH 4. 1911. c. 270. An act to provide punishment for tbe falslflcjitlou 

 of acroiims iind (lio nmkin.ir of fnlso reports l»v persons in the employ of 

 the rniteil Sl.ites. (36 Stat. 1355.) 



False entries in accounts or records, or false reports of public or trust moneys 

 or securities; punishment. 



H I That whoever, bein^ an officer, clerk, aircnt. or otlier jiersoii holdiiifjf 

 iDy any office or emphwment under the Government of the United States 

 tes, and, being charged with the dnt.y of keeping accounts or records of 

 any kind, shall, with intent to deceive, mislead, injure, or defraud the 

 leiitl United States or any person, make in any such account or record any 

 false or fictitious entry or record of any matter relating to oi- con- 

 )re- I nected with his duties, or whoever with like intent shall aid or abet 

 any such officer, clerk, agent, or other person in so doing; or wlio- 

 iro- ! ever, being an officer, clerk, agent, or other person holding any office 

 nej i or emplo5'ment under the Government of the United States and, being 

 in I charged with the duty of receiving, holding, or paying over moneys 

 or securities to, for or on behalf of the United States, or of recei\nng 

 or holding in trust for any person any moneys or securities, shall, with 

 like intent, make a false report of such moneys or securities, or who- 

 ever with like intent shall aid or abet any such officer, clerk, agent, or 

 other person in so doing, shall be fined not more than five thousand 

 dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. 



Act March 4. 1911, c. 270. 36 Stat. 1355. 



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llii 1 PUBLIC PROPERTY. 



^^ ! REV. ST. SEC. 197. 



Inventories of property. 



?^«1 Sec. 107. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 

 the Secretarv of the Interior, the Secretary of War, the Secretary 



"1 of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, the Attorney-General, and 

 Commissioner of Agriculture shall keep, in proper books, a complete 

 inventory of all the property belonging to the United States in the 

 buildings, rooms, offices, and' grounds occupied by them, respectively, 

 and under their charge, adding thereto, from time to time, an account 

 of such property as may be procured subsequently to the taking of 

 .such inventory, as well as an account of the sale or other disposition 

 of any such property, except supplies of stationery and fuel in the 

 public offices * * *. 



Piev. St. sec. 197. as amended by act Febriiarj' 27, 1877, c. 69. s. 1. 

 19 Stat. 241. 



ACT MARCH 29, 1894, c. 49. An act to regulate the making of property returns 



lllii by officers of the Government. (28 Stat. 47.) 



Certificates of loss, instead of returns, of public property, to be furnished. 



'^^ That instead of forwardinc: to the accounting officers of the 



Treasury Department returns ^f public property entrusted to the 

 possession of officers or agents, the Quartermaster-General, the Com- 

 missary-General of Subsistence, the Surgeon-General, the Chiei of 

 Engineers, the Chief of Ordnance, the Chief Signal Officer, the 1 ay- 

 master-Genpral of the Naw, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or 



