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Message:: <p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1366492, member: 22004"]The law is fairly clear on this:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><ul> <li> United States Code</li> <li> ** TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE<ul> <li> *** PART I - CRIMES<ul> <li> **** CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right"><i>U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04</i></p><p>  <b>Section 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations</b> </p><p> </p><p>         Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or</p><p>    unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank</p><p>    bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national</p><p>    banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal</p><p>    Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,</p><p>    or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined</p><p>    under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">United States Code</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">TITLE 18</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">PART I</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">CHAPTER 17 </span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">§ 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes,</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">falsifies,  scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United  States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in  actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or whoever  fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts  to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any  such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated,  impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened Shall be fined  under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black">Why isn't the law being enforced?  </span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span style="color: black"><br /></span></font></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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