Chapter 404. In relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof
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CHAP. 404.— An Act In relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 17744](/us/bill/61/hr/17744).][[Public, No. 286](/us/pl/61/286).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That any person who, by District of Columbia. Pandering. Punishment for inveigling female into house of prostitution, etc. threats by himself, or through another, induces, or by any device or scheme inveigles, any female into a house of prostitution, or of assignation, in the District of Columbia, against her will, or by any threats or duress detains her against her will, for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, or takes or detains a female against her will with intent to compel her by force, threats, menace, or duress to marry him, or to marry any other person, or if any parent, guardian, or other person having legal custody of the person of a female consents to her taking or detention by any person for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, is guilty of pandering, and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than one nor more than five years and fined not more than one thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That any person who, against her will, shall place any female Punishment for placing female in house of prostitution, etc. in the charge or custody of any other person or persons or in a house of prostitution with the intent that she shall live a life of prostitution, or any person who shall compel any female, against her will, to reside with him or with any other person for the purposes of prostitution, or compel her against her will to live a life of prostitution, is guilty of pandering and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.
Sec. 3. That any person who shall receive any money or other valuable Punishment for receiving money, etc., for causing illegal cohabitation of female. thing for or on account of procuring for or placing in a house of prostitution or elsewhere any female for the purpose of causing her illegally, to cohabit with any male person or persons shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years. Sec. 4. That any person who by force, fraud, intimidation, or threats Punishment for causing a wife to live in prostitution, etc. places or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave, his wife in a house of prostitution, or to lead a life of prostitution, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned not less than one nor more than ten years.
Sec. 5. That any person or persons who attempt to detain any girl Punishment for detaining inmate in disorderly house for debt there contracted. or woman in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts she has contracted, or is said to have contracted, while living in said house of prostitution or disorderly house shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof be imprisoned for a term not less than one nor more than five years. Approved, June 25, 1910.