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[CITE: 22USC4218]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
                                GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4218. False certificate as to ownership of property

    If any consul or vice consul falsely and knowingly certifies that 
property belonging to foreigners is property belonging to citizens of 
the United States, he shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more 
than three years, and by a fine of not more than $10,000.

(R.S. Sec. 1737; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, Sec. 3, 34 Stat. 100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1737 derived from act Feb. 22, 1803, ch. 9, Sec. 7, 2 
Stat. 204.
    References to ``commercial agent'' and ``vice-commercial agent'' 
were omitted in view of the abolition of the grade of commercial agent 
by act Apr. 5, 1906.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
which comprises this chapter.
    Section was formerly classified to section 1200 of this title, and 
prior thereto to section 104 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4191 of this title.
