                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                         CHAPTER 19--CONSPIRACY
 
Sec. 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer

    If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or 
District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any 
person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of 
confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties 
thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to 
leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be 
performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his 
lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the 
lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, 
interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official 
duties, each of such persons shall be fined not more than $5,000 or 
imprisoned not more than six years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 54 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, 
Sec. 21, 35 Stat. 1092).
    Scope of section was enlarged to cover all possessions of the United 
States. When the section was first enacted in 1861 there were no 
possessions, and hence the use of the words ``State or Territory'' was 
sufficient to describe the area then subject to the jurisdiction of the 
United States. The word ``District'' was inserted by the codifiers of 
the 1909 Criminal Code.
