{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1692","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1692.","heading":"Foreign mail as United States mail","status":null,"guid":"idbd152c3e-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.)","seq_in_title":608,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch83","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch83","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 83—","heading":"POSTAL SERVICE","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id83fdb1c9-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1692\"><num value=\"1692\">§ 1692.</num><heading> Foreign mail as United States mail</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Every foreign mail, while being transported across the territory of the United States under authority of law, is mail of the United States, and any depredation thereon, or offense in respect thereto, shall be punishable as though it were United States mail.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id83fdb1ca-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/776\">62 Stat. 776</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id83fdb1cb-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id83fdb1cc-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 359 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s229\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 229</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1134\">35 Stat. 1134</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Minor changes were made in phraseology and obvious surplusage omitted.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-47","currency_date":"2013-10-31","congress":113,"law_num":47,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":6,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","31"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}