Volume 4 · 773
Public Law 23–XXXIII
to prescribe the punishments of consuls, commercial agents, and others, in certain cases.
Approved March 3, 1835
Statutory text
An Act
to prescribe the punishments of consuls, commercial agents, and others, in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That if any consul, vice consul,
Fine and imprisonment for giving false certificates.
commercial agent, or vice commercial agent, shall knowingly and falsely certify to any invoice, or other papers to which his certificate is by law authorized or required, he shall, on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, at the like discretion.
Approved, .