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# 18 U.S.C. § 3361 - Form and contents—(Rule)

## Text

See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Contents and form; striking surplusage, Rule 7(a), (c), (d).

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 830.)