...set forth in the margin. 1 1 SEC. 5440. If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offence against the United States, or to defraud the United...more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than...

...United States. That section provides: "If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United...any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of 215 US Syllabus. such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to...

...violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy." WHITE,...

...commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000...

...statute is the agreement or confederation of the conspirators to commit one or more unlawful acts "where one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." The overt act, without proof of which a charge of conspiracy cannot be submitted...

...upon § 37 of the Criminal Code, Act of March 4, 1909, c. 321; 35 Stat. 1088, punishing conspiracy " to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose." A demurrer to all the counts was sustained by the District Court on the grounds that the Act of 1918...

...further enacted, That if two or more persons conspire either to commit any offence against the laws of the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner whatever, and one or more of said parties to said conspiracy shall do any act to effect the object...

...more conspiring- to persons conspire either to commit any ofi'enee against the nfdefraut &c. laws of the United States, or to defraud the united States in any manner whatever, and one or more of said parties to said conspiracy shall do any act to effect the object...

...commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof In any manner or for any purpose and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than •10,000...

...congress of Feb. 3, 1867, where there is a conspiracy " to commit any offence against the government of the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner whatever, and one or more of the parties to said conspiracy shall do any act to effect the object thereof,...