Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4218. False certificate as to ownership of property
Statutory text
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 1737
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4218
R.S. § 1737
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 1737
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 1737 derived from act Feb. 22, 1803, ch. 9, § 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 .
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.
Credits
1906 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 1737
- 1906Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.
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(R.S. § 1737; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.)