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Revised Statutes, § 5419 — 1st ed. (1875), p. 1055
Forty-Third Congress, Session I · Approved June 22, 1874
This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying, of the first edition of the Revised Statutes (1875), which gives the text as enacted on June 22, 1874. Margin notes, case annotations and the revisers’ notes are not transcribed.
1875 Revised Statutes, 1st ed., § 5419 (PDF, 1 page) (opens in a new tab) Unofficial transcription (PDF, 1 page) (opens in a new tab)
Sec. 5419. Every person who forges the signature of any judge, register, or other officer of any court of the United States, or of any Territory thereof, or forges or counterfeits the seal of any such court, or knowingly concurs in using any such forged or counterfeit signature or seal, for the purpose of authenticating any proceeding or document, or tenders in evidence any such proceeding or document with a false or counterfeit signature of any such judge, register, or other officer, or a false or counterfeit seal of the court, subscribed or attached thereto, knowing such signature or seal to be false or counterfeit, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars and not more than five thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not more than five years.