said waters, in any manner desired, fish of any kind for scientific purposes or for purposes of propagation, and that nothing herein contained shall apply to persons employed in catching young catfish, smelt, chub, bull minnows, and crayfish for use as bait in fishing with hook and line: Provided further, That any person engaged in taking such catfish, smelt, chub, bull minnows, and crayfish shall first have procured a written permit from the said Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to take such bait for hook-and-line fishing.

Sec. 897. BASS.-That no person shall catch or kill in the waters of the Potomac River or its tributaries within the District of Columbia any black bass (otherwise known as green bass and chub), crappie (otherwise known as calico bass and strawberry bass), between the first day of April and the twenty-ninth of May of each year, nor have in possession or expose for sale any of said species of fish at any other time during the year except by angling, nor catch nor kill any of the aforesaid species by what are known as out lines or trot lines, having a succession of hooks or devices.-Act of June 30, 1902.

[Sec. 897. BASS.-No person shall catch or kill in the waters of the Potomac River or its tributaries within the District of Columbia any black bass (otherwise known as green bass and chub) or crappie (otherwise known as calico bass and strawberry bass), between the first day of April and the first day of June of each year, nor have in possession nor expose for sale any of said species between the dates aforesaid, nor catch or kill any of said species of fish at any other time during the year except by angling, nor catch nor kill any of the aforesaid species by what are known as out lines or trot lines having a succession of hooks or devices.]

Sec. 898. SHAD OR HERRING.-It shall be unlawful for any person to have in possession or expose for sale in the District of Columbia after the tenth day of June in any year any fresh fish of the shad or herring species.

Sec. 899. SMALL FISH.-It shall be unlawful for any person to expose for sale in the District of Columbia at any time during the year any striped bass or rockfish or black bass having a length of less than nine inches.

Sec. 900. USE OF EXPLOSIVES, AND SO FORTH.— -It shall be unlawful for any person to catch or kill in the waters of the Potomac River or its tributaries within the District of Columbia any fish by means of explosives, drugs, or poisons.

Sec. 901. DEPOSITS OF DELETERIOUS MATTER.-No person shall allow any tar, oil, ammoniacal liquor, or other waste products of any gas works or works engaged in using such products, or any waste product whatever of any mechanical, chemical, manufacturing, or refining establishment to flow into or be deposited in Rock Creek or the Potomac River or any of its tributaries within the District of Columbia or into any pipe or conduit leading to the same.

Sec. 902. PENALTIES.-Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the six next preceding sections shall be fined for each and every such offense not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment of fine shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months; and any officer or other person securing such conviction shall be entitled to and receive one-half of any fine or fines imposed upon and paid by the party or parties adjudged guilty.

Sec. 903. That all nets, boats, or other contrivances, the property of any person or persons convicted under the provisions of this Act,

shall be confiscated to the District of Columbia, and the same shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, by the property clerk of said District, and the proceeds therefrom be deposited with the collector of taxes, as are other District revenues. -Act of June 30, 1902.

[Sec. 903. All nets, boats, or other contrivances the property of any person convicted under the provisions of the preceding sections shall be returned to the property clerk of the Metropolitan police department, to be delivered to the owner upon the order of the court, and if not called for within six months by the claimant the same shall be treated as other abandoned property coming into the hands of the police.]

Subchapter VIII.-GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Sec. 904. DEFINITION OF TERMS.-Except where such a construction would be unreasonable, the words "writing" and "paper," wherever mentioned in this chapter, are to be taken to include instruments wholly in writing or wholly printed, or partly printed and partly in writing.

Sec. 905. The words "anything of value," wherever they occur in this chapter, shall be held to include not only things possessing intrinsic value, but bank notes and other forms of paper money, and commercial paper and other writings which represent value.

Sec. 906. ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT CRIME. -Whoever shall attempt to commit any crime, which attempt is not otherwise made punishable by this chapter, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

Sec. 907. SECOND CONVICTION.-Every person upon his second conviction of any criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment or both may be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding fifty per centum greater, and to suffer imprisonment for a period not more than onehalf longer than the maximum fine and imprisonment for the first offense.

Sec. 908. PERSONS ADVISING, INCITING, OR CONNIVING AT CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO BE CHARGED AS PRINCIPALS. In prosecutions for any criminal offense all persons advising, inciting, or conniving at the offense, or aiding or abetting the principal offender, shall be charged as principals and not as accessories, the intent of this section being that as to all accessories before the fact the law heretofore applicable in cases of misdemeanor only shall apply to all crimes, whatever the punishment may be.

Sec. 909. ACCESSORIES.-Whoever shall be convicted of being an accessory after the fact to any crime punishable by death shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years. Whoever shall be convicted of being accessory after the fact to any crime punishable by imprisonment shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment, or both, as the case may be, not more than one-half the maximum fine or imprisonment, or both, to which the principal offender may be subjected.

Sec. 910. PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENSES NOT COVERED BY PROVISIONS OF CODE.-Whoever shall be convicted of any criminal offense not covered by the provisions of any section of this code, or of any general law of the United States not locally inapplicable in the District of Columbia, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.

CHAPTER XX.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Sec. 911. SEARCHES.-Upon complaint, under oath, before the police court, or a justice of the peace, setting forth that the affiant believes and has good cause to believe that there are concealed in any house or place articles stolen, taken by robbers, embezzled, or obtained by false pretenses, forged or counterfeited coin, stamps, labels, bank bills or other instruments, or dies, plates, stamps, or brands for making the same, books or printed papers, drawings, engravings, photographs, or pictures of an indecent or obscene character, or instruments for immoral use, or any gaming table, device, or apparatus kept for the purpose of unlawful gaming, or any lottery tickets or lottery policies, particularly describing the house or place to be searched, the things to be seized, substantially alieging the offense in relation thereto and describing the person to be seized, the said court or justice may issue a warrant to the marshal or any officer of the police commanding him to search such house or place for the property or other things, and, if found, to bring the same, together with the person to be seized, before the police court.

The said warrant shall have annexed to it or inserted therein a copy of the affidavit upon which it is issued, and may be substantially in the form following:

Whereas there has been filed before

... an affidavit, of which the following is a copy

(here insert): These are therefore to command you to enter (here describe the place) and there difigently search for the said articles, goods or chattels in the said affidavit described, and that you bring the same, or any part thereof, found on said search and also the body of before the police court, to be dealt with and disposed of according to law.

Sec. 912. When the warrant is executed by the seizure of the property or things described therein, the said property or things shall be delivered to the marshal, and shall be safely kept to be used as evidence.

Sec. 913. If upon the examination the court is satisfied that the offense charged with reference to the things seized has been committed, the party accused shall be committed for trial or held to bail, and said things shall remain in the custody of the marshal until the accused is tried or the right of the claimant to said things is otherwise ascertained.

Sec. 914. If the accused be discharged, the property or other things seized shall be returned to the person in whose possession they were found. If he be convicted, the property stolen, embezzled, or obtained by false pretenses shall be returned to its owner, and the other articles before described shall be destroyed, under direction of the court.

Sec. 915. OFFENSES THAT MAY BE JOINED. -An indictment for larceny may contain a count for obtaining the same property by false

pretenses, a count for embezzlement thereof, and a count for receiving or concealing the same property, knowing it to be stolen or embezzled, or any of such counts, and the jury may convict of any of such offenses, and may find any or all of the persons indicted guilty of any of said offenses.

Sec. 916. DESCRIPTION OF MONEY.-In every indictment, except for forgery, in which it is necessary to make an averment as to any money or bank bill or notes, United States Treasury notes, postal and fractional currency, or other bills, bonds, or notes, issued by lawful authority and intended to pass and circulate as money, it shall be sufficient to describe such money, bills, notes, currency, or bonds simply as money, without specifying any particular coin, note, bill, or bond; and such allegation shall be sustained by proof that the accused has stolen or embezzled any amount of coin, or any such note, bill, currency, or bond, although the particular amount or species of such coin, note, bill, currency, or bond be not proved.

Sec. 917. INTENT TO DEFRAUD. -In an indictment in which it is necessary to allege an intent to defraud, it shall be sufficient to allege that the party accused did the act complained of with intent to defraud, without alleging an intent to defraud any particular person or body corporate; and on the trial of such an indictment it shall not be necessary to prove an intent to defraud any particular person, but it shall be sufficient to prove a general intent to defraud.

Sec. 918. PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES.-In all trials for capital offenses the accused and the United States shall each be entitled to twenty peremptory challenges. In trials for offenses punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary the accused and the United States shall each be entitled to ten peremptory challenges. In all other cases, civil as well as criminal, in which the plaintiff is the United States or the District of Columbia, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges; and if there are several defendants, they shall be treated as one person in the allowance of such challenges.-Act of June 30, 1902.

[Sec. 918. PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES.-In all trials for capital offenses the accused and the United States shall each be entitled to twenty peremptory challenges. In trials for offenses punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary the accused and the United States shall each be entitled to ten peremptory challenges. In all other cases, civil as well as criminal, in which the plaintiff is the United States, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges; and if there are several defendants, they shall be treated as one person in the allowance of such challenges.]

Sec. 919. CAUSE OF CHALLENGE NOT AVAILABLE AFTER VERDICT.-No

verdict shall be set aside for any cause which might be alleged as ground for challenge of a juror before the jury are sworn, except when the objection to the juror is that he had a bias against the defendant such as would have disqualified him, and such disqualification was not known to or suspected by the defendant or his counsel before the juror was sworn.

Sec. 920. WITNESSES FOR DEFENSE.-In any criminal trial the justice trying the case may allow such number of witnesses on behalf of the defendant as may appear to be necessary, the fees of such witnesses to be paid in the same manner as the fees of the witnesses for the Government: Provided, That the defendant makes application under oath before the trial, or, in cases of manifest necessity, during the trial, setting forth that he is not possessed of sufficient means and is actually

unable to pay the fees of such witnesses, and setting forth also the names of such witnesses and what he expects to prove by them, in order that the court may be advised whether or not the testimony be material to the issue.

Sec. 921. DISCHARGING DEFENDANTS DURING TRIAL.-When two or more persons are jointly indicted the court may, before a defendant has gone into his defense, direct any such defendant to be discharged, that he may be a witness for the United States. An accused party may also, when there is not sufficient evidence to put him upon his defense, be discharged by the court, or, if not discharged by the court, shall be entitled to the immediate verdict of the jury for the purpose of giving evidence for the other parties accused with him; and such order of discharge, in either case, equally with the verdict of acquittal, shall be a bar to another prosecution for the same offense.

Sec. 922. DEPOSITIONS.-If a material witness for the defendant resides [more than a hundred miles from the city of Washington] beyond the District of Columbia, or is sick or infirm, or about to leave the District, the defendant may apply in writing to the court for a commission to examine such witness upon interrogatories thereto annexed when the deposition is to be taken beyond the District of Columbia, and orally in other cases, and the court may grant the same and pass an order stating for what length of time notice shall be given to the district attorney before said witness shall be examined. At or before the time fixed in said notice, when the examination is upon written interrogatories, the district attorney may file cross-interrogatories; but if he fail to do so the clerk shall file the following:

First. Are all your statements in the foregoing answers made from your own personal knowledge? And if not, show what is stated upon information and give its source.

Second. State everything you know in addition to what is stated in your above answers concerning this case favorable to either the United States or the defendant.

For good cause shown the court may order in any case that the examination be conducted orally.

Sec. 923. The commission shall issue from the clerk's office, the examination of the witnesses shall be made and certified, and the return thereof made in the same manner as in civil cases, and unimportant irregularities or errors in the proceedings under said commission shall not cause the deposition to be excluded where no substantial prejudice can be wrought to the Government by such irregularities

or errors.

Sec. 924. SENTENCE.-If a new trial be not granted nor the judg ment arrested the court may pronounce sentence upon the party convicted; but the execution of such sentence shall be postponed for a sufficient time to enable the defendant to prosecute an appeal, on the application of the defendant, if he shall give notice of his intention to appeal from the judgment to the court of appeals.

Sec. 925. Whenever the punishment shall be imprisonment for more than one year, it shall be sufficient for the court to sentence the defendant to imprisonment in the penitentiary without specifying the particular prison, and the imprisonment shall be in such penitentiary as the Attorney-General shall from time to time designate.