Chapter LXIII. to amend the twenty-eighth Section of the Act of Congress approved the thirtieth of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled “An Act to provide Revenue from Imports and to change and modify existing Laws imposing Duties on Imports and for other Purposes,”—prohibiting the Importation
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Chap. LXIII.— An Act to amend the twenty-eighth Section of the Act of Congress approved the thirtieth of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled “An Act to provide Revenue from Imports and to change and modify existing Laws imposing Duties on Imports and for other Purposes,”—prohibiting the Importation of obscene and indecent Articles, so as more effectually to accomplish the Purposes for which that Provision was enacted. March 2, 1857.1842, ch. 270. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the twenty-eighth section of the act of Congress approved the thirtieth of August, one thousand Importation of obscene, &c., books prohibited.eight hundred and forty-two, and entitled “An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,” be amended as follows: 1842, ch. 270, § 28.Vol. v. p. 566.The importation of all indecent or obscene articles, prints, paintings, lithographs, engravings, images, figures, daguerreotypes, photographs, and transparencies, is hereby prohibited, and no invoice or package whatever, or any part thereof, in which any such articles are contained, shall beTHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 90. 1857.169 admitted to entry; and all invoices and packages whereof any such articlesPackages, &c., of which they are a part, to be forfeited. shall compose a part, are hereby declared to be liable to be proceeded against, seized, and forfeited by due course of law, and the said articles shall be forthwith destroyed. Approved, March 2, 1857.