...the defendants were indicted for the violation of an Act of Congress providing 'that if any person shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction...

...laws should receive a sensible construction," where in a federal statute punishing any person who " shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the same," was held inapplicable to...

...chapter 9, section 3995, which says [reading] : Obstructin9 the mail — Penalties. — Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any carriage, horse, driver, or carrier carrying the stune, shall, for every such offense be puuishable...

...US v. Beaty, Fed. Case No. 14,555. Section 324. (Criminal Code, section 201.) Obstructing the mail. Whoever shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any carriage, horse, driver, or carrier, or car, steamboat, or other conveyance or vessel carrying the...

...proceedings. The Act of Congress referring to obstructing the passage of mails, provides that 'any person who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any carriage, horse, driver or carrier carrying the same, shall be punishable by fine.' Ferrymen refusing...

...v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, in which an act of Congress, providing for the punishment of any person who 'shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any driver or carrier,' was held not to apply to a state officer who had a warrant of arrest against a...

...statute: The 9th section of the act of congress of the 3d of March, 13Ü5, provides, that, "if any person shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any driver or carrier thereof, or of auj horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction...

...STATES MAHS— REV. ST. f 3995.— Section 3995 of the Revised Statutes provides that " any person who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or any carriage, horse, driver, or carrier carrying the same, shall, for every such offence, be punishable...

...two years, or both." OBSTRUCTION OF MAILS. 03. Amend section 1622 to read as follows : " SEC. 1022. Whoever shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mall, or any carriage, horse, driver, or carrier, or car, steamboat, or other conveyance or vessel...