Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 1.djvu/820

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790 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 [62 STAT. kind to graze thereon, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. This section shall not apply to forest rangers and other persons employed by the United States to protect the forest, or to Federal and State officers and employees of the water board of the City of Portland, State of Oregon, in the discharge of their duties. CHAPTER 93.- PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES Sec. 1901. Collecting or disbursing officer trading in public property. 1902. Disclosure of crop information and speculation thereon. 1903. Speculation in stocks or commodities affecting crop insurance. 1904. Disclosure of information or speculation in securities affecting Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. 1905. Disclosure of confidential information generally. 1906. Disclosure of information by bank examiner. 1907. Disclosure of information by farm credit examiner. 1908. Disclosure of information by National Agricultural Credit Corporation examiner. 1909. Examiner performing other services. 1910. Nepotism in appointment of receiver or trustee. 1911. Receiver mismanaging property. 1912. Unauthorized fees for inspection of vessels. 1913. Lobbying with appropriated moneys. 1914. Salary of Government officials and employees payable only by United States. 1915. Compromise of customs liabilities. § 1901. COLLECTING OR DISBURSING OFFICER TRADING IN PUBLIC PROPERTY Whoever, being an officer of the United States concerned in the collection or the disbursement of the revenues thereof, carries on any trade or business in the funds or debts of the United States, or of any State, or in any public property of either, shall be fined not more than $3,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be removed from office, and be incapable of holding any office under the United States. § 1902. DISCLOSURE OF CROP INFORMATION AND SPECULATION THEREON Whoever, being an officer, employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States or any department or agency thereof, and having by virtue of his office, employment or position, become possessed of information which might influence or affect the market value of any product of the soil grown within the United States, which informa- tion is by law or by the rules of such department or agency required to be withheld from publication until a fixed time, willfully imparts, directly or indirectly, such information, or any part thereof, to any person not entitled under the law or the rules of the department or agency to receive the same; or, before such information is made public through regular official channels, directly or indirectly speculates in any such product by buying or selling the same in any quantity, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. No person shall be deemed guilty of a violation of any such rules, unless prior to such alleged violation he shall have had actual knowl- edge thereof. § 1903. SPECULATION IN STOCKS OR COMMODITIES AFFECTING CROP INSURANCE Whoever, while acting in any official capacity in the administration of any Act of Congress relating to crop insurance or to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation speculates in any agricultural commodity or product thereof, to which such enactments apply, or in contracts relating thereto, or in the stock or membership interests of any asso- ciation or corporation engaged in handling, processing, or disposing