![]() Letter packet, or newspaper, or pamphlet, or shall draw or break any staple, Or any person in whom his powers are vested in a conveyance of any mail, That, if any person shall rip, cut, tear, burn, or otherwise injure, any valise, portmanteau, or other bag used, or designed to be used, by any person acting under the authority of the postmaster general, evidence thereof, out of a post office, or shall open any letter or packet, which shall have been in a post office, or in custody of a mail carrier, before it shall have been delivered to the person to whom it is directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, to pry into another' s business or secrets or shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy, any such mall, letter, or packet, such offender, upon conviction, shall pay, for every such offence, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months.ģ.-Sec. And if any person shall take any letter, or packet, not containing any article of value, or. Such offender, or offenders, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not less than two, nor exceeding ten years. ![]() Letter, or packet, the same containing any articles of value, or evidence of any debt, due, demand, right, or claim, or any release, receipt,Īcquittance, or discharge, or any other articles, paper, or thing, mentioned and described in the twenty-first section of this act or, if any person shall, by fraud or deception, obtain from any person having custody thereof,Īny mail, letter, or packet, containing any article of value, or evidence thereof, or either of the writings referred to, or next above mentioned, And, if any person shall steal the mail, or shall steal or take from, or out of, any mail, or from, or out of, any post office, any letter or packet or, if any person shall take the mail, or any letter or packet therefrom, or from any post office, whether with or without the consent of the person having custody thereof, and shall open, embezzle, or destroy any such mail, And if any person shall attempt to rob the mail of the United States, by assaulting the person having custody thereof, shooting at him, or his horse or mule, or, threatening him with dangerous weapons, and the robbery is not effected, every such offender, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment, not less than two years, nor exceeding ten years. That if any person shall rob any carrier of the mail of the United States, or other person entrusted, therewith, of such mail, or of part thereof, such offender or offenders shall, on conviction, be imprisoned not less than five years, nor exceeding ten years and, if convicted a second time of a like offence, he or they shall suffer death or if, in effecting such robbery of the mail, the first time, the offender shall wound the person having the custody thereof, or put his life in jeopardy, by the use of dangerous weapons, such offender or offenders shall suffer death. The laws of the United States have provided for the punishment of robberies or willful injuries to the mail the act of March 3, 1825, 3 Story' s Laws U. The things thus carried are also called the mail.Ģ. Under the authority of the United States. Letters, packets, newspapers, pamphlets, and the like, from place to place, ![]() Valise, or other contrivance used in conveying through the post office, This word, derived from the French malle, a trunk, signifies the bag,
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