Chapter 2539. To amend sections one, two, and three of an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit shanghaiing in the United States,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 2539.— An Act To amend sections one, two, and three of an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit shanghaiing in the United States,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 25190](/us/bill/34/hr/25190).] [[Public, No. 198](/us/pl/34/198).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That sections one, two, andShipping.Shanghaiing prohibitions. three of an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit shanghaiing in the United States,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so as to read as follows:
" “Whoever, with intent that any person shall perform service orPunishment for, extended to high seas and navigable waters.*Ante,* p. 551, amended. labor of any kind on board of any vessel engaged in trade and commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or on board of any vessel of the United States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable water of the United States, shall procure or induce, or attempt to procure or induce, another, by force or threats or by representations which he knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person so procured or induced is intoxicated or under the influence of any drug, to go on board of any such vessel, or to sign or in any wise enter into any agreement to go on board of any such vessel to perform service or labor thereon, or whoever shall knowingly detain on board of any such vessel any person so procured or induced to go on board thereof or to enter into any agreement to go on board thereof by any means herein defined, or whoever shall knowingly aid or abet in the doing of any of the things herein made unlawful shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
” " Sec. 2. That sections one, two, and three of the Act hereby amendedRepeal. are repealed. Approved, March 2, 1907.