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Revised Statutes, § 5419 — 2d ed. (1878), p. 1050
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 second edition of the Revised Statutes (1878), published under the Act of March 2, 1877, which gives the text as amended and corrected through 1877. Margin notes, case annotations and the revisers’ notes are not transcribed. In the text below, the brackets are the 2d edition’s own: bracketed italic words are the 1875 text struck out, and plain bracketed words are the words that replaced them.
1878 Revised Statutes, 2d 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.