83. Power of Postmaster General to compound certain offences

Whenever any person shall admit that he is guilty of an offence against this Act or any rule made thereunder, the punishment of which is a fine not exceeding $500, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to accept payment on behalf of the Government from the offender of such sum of money as may to the Postmaster General seem fit, not exceeding the highest amount of fine to which the offender would have been liable on conviction and no person having made such payment shall be thereafter prosecuted for the same offence.