Chapter 40. To amend section seventy-three and section seventy-six of the Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes.”February 12, 1913.[[H
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CHAP. 40.— An Act To amend section seventy-three and section seventy-six of the Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes.”February 12, 1913.[[H. R. 25002](/us/bill/62/hr/25002).][[Public, No. 370](/us/pl//).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Antitrust provisions.Vol. 28, p. 670, amended.
That section seventy-three anti section seventy-six of the Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 73. That every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement,Trusts, etc., in restraint of import trade declared void. or contract is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy, illegal, and void when the same is made by or between two or more persons or corporations either of whom, as agent or principal, is engaged inAgent or principal added. importing any article from any foreign country into the United States, and when such combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is intended to operate in restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade or commerce, or to increase the market price in any part of the United States of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported into the United States, or of any manufacture into which such imported article enters or is intended to enter.
Every person who is or shall hereafter be engaged in thePenalty. importation of goods or any commodity from any foreign country in violation of this section of this Act, or who shall combine or conspire with another to violate the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States such person shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars and not exceeding five thousand dollars, and shall be further punished by imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for a term not less than three months nor exceeding twelve months.
” “Sec. 76. That any property owned under any contract or by anyForfeiture of property if landed, transported, etc. combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy, and being the subject668 thereof, mentioned in section seventy-three of this Act, imported into and being within the United States or being in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to or from a Territory or the District of Columbia, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.
” " Approved, February 12, 1913.