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[CITE: 50USC217]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 217. Trading in captured or abandoned property

    All persons in the military or naval service of the United States 
are prohibited from buying or selling, trading, or in any way dealing in 
captured or abandoned property, whereby they shall receive or expect any 
profit, benefit, or advantage to themselves, or any other person, 
directly or indirectly connected with them; and it shall be the duty of 
such person whenever such property comes into his possession or custody, 
or within his control, to give notice thereof to some agent, appointed 
by virtue of this chapter, and to turn the same over to such agent 
without delay. Any officer of the United States, civil, military, or 
naval, or any sutler, soldier, or marine, or other person who shall 
violate any provision of this section, 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. 5313.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5313 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, Sec. 10, 13 
Stat. 377.


                            Cross References

    Dealing in captured or abandoned property to be punishable as a 
court-martial may direct, see section 903 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
