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18 U.S.C. § 1706 — Injury to mail bags
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Whoever tears, cuts, or otherwise injures any mail bag, pouch, or other thing used or designed for use in the conveyance of the mail, or draws or breaks any staple or loosens any part of any lock, chain, or strap attached thereto, with intent to rob or steal any such mail, or to render the same insecure, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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Whoever tears, cuts, or otherwise injures any mail bag, pouch, or other thing used or designed for use in the conveyance of the mail, or draws or breaks any staple or loosens any part of any lock, chain, or strap attached thereto, with intent to rob or steal any such mail, or to render the same insecure, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1708
of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the
same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces
or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than three years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 779; May 24, 1949,
ch. 139, § 38, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
2147; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title III, § 3002(a)(2),
Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1805.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
1948 ACT
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 321 (Mar. 4, 1909,
ch. 321, § 198, 35 Stat. 1126; May 18, 1916, ch. 126, § 10, 39
Stat. 162; July 28, 1916, ch. 261, § 1, 39 Stat. 418; May 7,
1934, ch. 220, § 1, 48 Stat. 667).
Words ‘‘or shall willfully take or steal such mail from
or out of such letter box or other receptacle’’ were
omitted as covered by section 1702 of this title. Pros-
ecutions for theft of mail matter are invariably made
under that section whereas this section is used as basis
for prosecutions for malicious mischief to mail boxes or
receptacles. By Postal Regulations (1928), section 700,
paragraph 2, an ordinary letter box is within this sec-
tion and also section 1702 of this title. Huebner v. United
States (C.C.A. 1928, 28 F. 2d 929).
Reference to persons assisting or aiding was omitted.
Such persons are principals under definitive section 2
of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
1949 ACT
As amended by this section [section 38] of the bill,
section 1705 of title 18, U.S.C., is brought more closely
into conformity with the original statute from which it
was derived by eliminating an inadvertent reference to
a ‘‘conveyance’’ which was not in the original statute.
(See
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