
      If any person authorized and required by title 48 of the Revised
    Statutes to perform, as an officer, any act or thing, willfully
    neglects to do or perform the same according to the true intent and
    meaning of title 48 of the Revised Statutes, he shall, if not
    subject to the penalty and disqualification prescribed in section
    4187 of the Revised Statutes, be punishable by a fine of $500 for
    the first offense, and by a like fine for the second offense, and
    shall thenceforth be rendered incapable of holding any office of
    trust or profit under the United States.

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