50 U.S.C. § 214 — Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 53, 70A

Page 65 TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE § 216 cerning the same, or who is guilty of any act of embezzlement, of willful misappropriation of public or private money or property, of keeping false accounts, or of willfully making any false returns, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and shall be fined not more than $5,000, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years. Violations of this section shall be cognizable before any court, civil or military, competent to try the same. (R.S. § 5306.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 5306 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 10, 13 Stat. 377. § 211. Investigations to detect and prevent frauds and abuses It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and prevent frauds and abuses in any trade or transactions which may be licensed between in- habitants of loyal States and of States in insur- rection. And the agents making such investiga- tions shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to make examinations on oath. (R.S. § 5307.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 5307 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, § 10, 13 Stat. 377. § 212. Confiscation of property employed to aid insurrection Whenever during any insurrection against the Government of the United States, after the President shall have declared by proclamation that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, by com- binations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals by law, any person, or his agent, attorney, or employee, pur- chases or acquires, sells or gives, any property of whatsoever kind or description, with intent to use or employ the same, or suffers the same to be used or employed in aiding, abetting, or pro- moting such insurrection or resistance to the laws, or any person engaged therein; or being the owner of any such property, knowingly uses or employs, or consents to such use or employ- ment of the same, all such property shall be law- ful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be the duty of the President to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and con- demned. (R.S. § 5308.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 5308 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, § 1, 12 Stat. 319. § 213. Jurisdiction of confiscation proceedings Such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same may be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted. (R.S. § 5309; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 253; Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 291, 36 Stat. 1167.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 5309 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, § 2, 12 Stat. 319. Act Mar. 3, 1911, conferred the powers and duties of the former circuit courts upon the district courts. AMENDMENTS 1877—Act Feb. 27, 1877, inserted ‘‘may’’ after ‘‘any dis- trict in which the same’’. § 214. Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 53, 70A Stat. 641 Section, R.S. § 5310, provided that property taken on inland waters of the United States was not a maritime prize. See section 7651 of Title 10, Armed Forces. § 215. Institution of confiscation proceedings The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for any judicial district in which such property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States; or any person may file an infor- mation with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts. (R.S. § 5311; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 5311 derived from act Aug. 6, 1861, ch. 60, § 3, 12 Stat. 319. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted ‘‘United States attorney’’ for ‘‘attorney of the United States’’. See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judi- cial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder. § 216. Preventing transportation of goods to aid insurrection The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of transportation within the United States, of any property, whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all cases where there are satisfactory reasons to be- lieve that such property is intended for any place in the possession or under the control of insurgents against the United States, or that there is imminent danger that such property will fall into the possession or under the control of such insurgents; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he deems it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given that property shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall