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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · March 4, 1909 · Chapter 196

Chapter 196. To amend section 217 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909

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CHAP. 196.— An Act To amend section 217 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909. May 25, 1920. [[H. R. 9781](/us/bill/66/hr/9781).] [[Public, No. 216](/us/pl/66/216).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Criminal Code.Vol. 35, p. 1131, amended. That section 217 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 1131), is hereby amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 217. Postal offenses.Poisons, explosives, disease germs, etc., nonmailable. That all kinds of poison, and all articles and compositions containing poison, and all poisonous animals, insects, and reptiles, and explosives of all kinds, and inflammable materials, and infernal machines, and mechanical, chemical, or other devices or compositions which may ignite or explode, and all disease germs621or scabs, and all other natural or artificial articles, compositions, or materials, of whatever kind, which may kill or in anywise hurt, harm, or injure another or damage, deface, or otherwise injure the mails or other property, whether sealed as first-class matter or not, are hereby declared to be nonmailable matter, and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or station thereof, nor by any letter carrier; but the Postmaster General may permitTransmission to licensed physicians, etc., permitted. the transmission in the mails, from the manufacturer thereof or dealer therein to licensed physicians, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists, druggists, and veterinarians, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, of any articles hereinbefore described which are not outwardly or of their own force dangerous or injurious to life, health, or property: *Provided*, That all spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented,*Proviso*.Intoxicating liquors nonmailable. or other intoxicating liquors of any kind are hereby declared to be nonmailable, and shall not be deposited in or carried through the mails.
Whoever shall knowingly deposit or cause to be depositedPunishment for unauthorized mailing. for mailing or delivery, or shall knowingly cause to be delivered by mail, according to the direction thereon or at any place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable, unless in accordance with the rules and regulations hereby authorized to be prescribed by the Postmaster General, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; and whoeverPunishment for mailing articles with injurious intent. shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, or shall knowingly cause to be delivered by mail, according to the direction thereon or at any place to which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable, whether transmitted in accordance with the rules and regulations authorized to be prescribed by the Postmaster General or not, with the design, intent, or purpose to kill or in anywise hurt, harm, or injure another, or damage, deface, or otherwise injure the mails or other property, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
” " Approved, May 25, 1920.
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