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offense by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both.

SEC. 45. Any officers, agent or servant of a carrier, who,
with intent to defraud, issues or aids in issuing a bill for
goods, knowing that it contains any false statement, shall be
guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for
each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by a
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.

SEC. 46. Any officer, agent or servant of a carrier who, with
intent to defraud, issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or addi-
tional negotiable bill for goods in violation of the provisions
of Section 7, knowing that a former negotiable bill for the
same goods, or any part of them, is outstanding and uncan-
celled, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall
be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding
live years, or bv a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or
by both.

SEC. 47. Any person who ships goods to which be has not
title, or upon which there is a lien or mortgage, and who takes
for such goods a negotiable bill which he afterwards negoti-
ates for value, with intent to deceive and without disclosing
his want of title, or the existence of the lien or mortgage, shall
be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for
each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by a
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.

SEC. 48. Any person who, with intent to deceive, negoti-
ates or transfers for value a bill, knowing that any or all of
the goods which by the terms of such bill appear to have been
received for transportation by the carrier which issued the
bill, are not in the possession or control of such carrier, or of
a connecting carrier, without disclosing this fact, shall be
guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for
each offense by imprisonment not exceeding jive years, or by a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both.

SEC. 49. Any person who, with intent to defraud, secures
the issue by a carrier of a bill, knowing that at the time of
such issue any or all of the goods described in such bill as re-
ceived for transportation have not been received by such car-
rier, or an agent of such carrier, or a connecting carrier, or are
not under the carrier's control, by inducing an officer, agent or
servant of such carrier falsely to believe that such goods have
been received by such carrier, or are under its control, shall be
guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for
each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both.