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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 50USC210]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 210. Penalties for unauthorized trading, etc.; jurisdiction 
        of prosecutions
        
    Every officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, and 
every sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who takes, or causes to 
be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or to any other 
point to be thence taken into such State, or who transports or sells, or 
otherwise disposes of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise 
whatsoever, except in pursuance of license and authority of the 
President, as provided in this chapter, or who makes any false statement 
or representation upon which license and authority is granted for such 
transportation, sale, or other disposition, or who, under any license or 
authority obtained, willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or 
otherwise disposes of any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such 
as are in good faith so licensed and authorized, or who willfully and 
knowingly transports, sells, or disposes of the same, or any portion 
thereof, in violation of the terms of such license or authority, or of 
any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury 
concerning the same, or who is guilty of any act of embezzlement, of 
willful misappropriation of public or private money or property, of 
keeping false accounts, or of willfully making any false returns, shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than 
$5,000, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years. 
Violations of this section shall be cognizable before any court, civil 
or military, competent to try the same.

(R.S. Sec. 5306.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5306 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, Sec. 10, 13 
Stat. 377.
