2147.) Historical and Revision Notesīased on sections 581 and 592 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking (R.S. Whoever, being an officer acting under the provisions of chapter 2 of Title 12, countersigns or delivers to any national banking association, or to any other company or person, any circulating notes contemplated by that chapter except in strict accordance with its provisions. Whoever, being a Federal Reserve Agent, or an agent or employee of such Federal Reserve Agent, or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, issues or puts in circulation any Federal Reserve notes, without complying with or in violation of the provisions of law regulating the issuance and circulation of such Federal Reserve notes or Issuance of Federal Reserve or national bank notes 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $100". Words "or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System" were inserted because the paper of such banks has almost supplanted national bank currency.ġ994- Pub. 2146.) Historical and Revision Notesīased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §291 ( Mar. Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $10,000". 2147.) Historical and Revision Notesīased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §280 ( Mar. If any of the gold or silver coins struck or coined at any of the mints of the United States shall be debased, or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to law, or if any of the scales or weights used at any of the mints or assay offices of the United States shall be defaced, altered, increased, or diminished through the fault or connivance of any officer or person employed at the said mints or assay offices, with a fraudulent intent or if any such officer or person shall embezzle any of the metals at any time committed to his charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins struck or coined at the said mints, or any medals, coins, or other moneys of said mints or assay offices at any time committed to his charge, or of which he may have assumed the charge, every such officer or person who commits any of the said offenses shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Debasement of coins alteration of official scales, or embezzlement of metals 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $2,000".ġ951-Act July 16, 1951, made section applicable to minor coins (5-cent and 1-cent pieces), and to fraudulent alteration of coins. Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of this title.ġ994- Pub.
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative. 2147.) Historical and Revision Notesīased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §279 ( Mar. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened. Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States or
Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins
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