actor, agent, paymaster,
quartermaster, or other person whatsoever in said forces or service
having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other
public property used or to be used in the military or naval service of
the United States, who shall, with intent to defraud the United States,
or willfully to conceal such money or other property, deliver or cause
to be delivered to any other person having authority to receive the same
any amount of such money or other public property less than that for
which he shall receive a certificate or receipt; any person in said
forces or service who is or shall be authorized to make or deliver any
certificate, voucher, or receipt, or other paper certifying the receipt
of arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing, or other public property so
used or to be used, who shall make or deliver the same to any person
without having full knowledge of the truth of the facts stated therein,
and with intent to cheat, defraud, or injure the United States; any
person in said forces or service who shall knowingly purchase or
receive, in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness, from any soldier,
officer, or other person called into or employed in said forces or
service, any arms, equipments, ammunition, clothes, or military stores,
or other public property, such soldier, officer, or other person not
having the lawful right to pledge or sell the same, shall be deemed
guilty of a criminal offense, and shall be subject to the rules and
regulations made for the government of the military and naval forces of
the United States, and of the militia when called into and employed in
the actual service of the United States in time of war, and to the
provisions of this act. And every person so offending may be arrested
and held for trial by a court-martial, and if found guilty shall be
punished by fine and imprisonment, or such other punishment as the
court-martial may adjudge, save the punishment of death.

SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That any person heretofore called
or hereafter to be called into or employed in such forces or service who
shall commit any violation of this act, and shall afterwards receive his
discharge or be dismissed from the service, shall, notwithstanding such
discharge or dismissal, continue to be liable to be arrested and held
for trial and sentence by a court-martial in the same manner and to the