An Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States.

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§21, printed page 117 (PDF page 6). This is an expressly defined bribery offense, not a general offense covering all constitutional violations. Use the PDF whose filename ends Pg112-2; Pg112 alone is a different act on the same printed page. Archival links: Original statutory text in collected printing: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-1/pdf/STATUTE-1-Pg112-2.pdf GovInfo identifier: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/STATUTE-1/STATUTE-1-Pg112-2

Date

1790-04-30 (approved)

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First Congress of the United States; approved by George Washington

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Archival identity, document boundaries and provenance reviewed; generated text PDF pages visually checked for layout and continuous source coverage. No independent human proofreading. Complete eight-page statutory scan, printed pages 112–119, preserved unchanged. Editorial notes and adjoining material are present on shared pages; embedded OCR is retained as supplied, not represented as a checked transcription. Follow-up: Complete 33-section enacted text, 1 Stat. 112–119. AI visual comparison against the preserved statutory scans; no independent human proofreading. Historical wording retained; spacing and headings regularized. Marginal summaries, running headers, later editorial notes, reference markers and adjacent enactments omitted.

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