Viewing page 120 of 127

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

36
receipts so deposited.
"SECTION 1574. EXPENDITURES INCURRED BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
"The Postmaster General shall at least once a month transfer to the Treasury, together with the receipts required to be deposited under section 1573, a statement of the additional expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of the additional expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere incurred by the Post Office Department in performing the duties imposed upon said Department by the subchapter, and the Secretary shall be authorized and directed to advance from time to time to the credit of the Post Office Department from appropriations made for the collection of the taxes imposed by this subchapter, such sums as may be required for such additional expenditures incurred by the Post Office Department.
"SECTION 1575. PENALTIES RELATING TO STAMPS AND OTHER COLLECTION DEVICES.
"(a) UNAUTHORIZED USE, SALE, ETC.-- Whoever buys, sells, offers for sale, uses, transfers, takes or gives in exchange, or pledges or gives in pledge, except as authorized in this subchapter or in regulations made pursuant thereto, any stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device, prescribed by the Commissioner under section 1570 (c) for the collection or payment of any tax imposed by this subchapter, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
"(b) COUNTERFEITING, ETC.--Whoever, with intent to defraud, alters, forges, makes, or counterfeits any stamp, coupon, ticket, book, or other device prescribed by the Commissioner under section 1570 (c) for the collection or payment of any tax imposed by this subchapter, or uses, sells, lends, or has in his possession any such altered, forged, or counterfeited