''Any reference to a place belonging to [the State]1 includes a place occupied by any department oi the Government, whether the place is or is not actually vested in [the State] expressions referring to communicating or receiving include any communicating or receiving, whether in whole or in part, and whether the sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, or information itself or the substance, effect or description thereof only be communicated or received ; expressions referring to obtaining or retaining any sketch, plan, model, article, note, or document include the copying or causing to be copied of the whole or any part of any sketch, plan, model, article, note, or document ; and expressions referring to the communication of any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document include the transfer or transmission of the sketch, plan, model, article, note or document...''