Chapter 218. To allow the printing and publishing of illustrations of foreign postage and revenue stamps from defaced plates
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CHAP. 218.— An Act To allow the printing and publishing of illustrations of foreign postage and revenue stamps from defaced plates. March 3, 1923.[[S. 2703](/us/bill/67/s/2703).][[Public, No. 479](/us/pl/67/479).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That nothing inPostage and revenue stamps.Printing in black and white of foreign, from defaced plates no violation of Criminal Code.Vol. 35, pp, 1118, 1121, 1132. sections 161, 172, and 220 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, at pages 1118, 1121, and 1132), shall be construed to forbid or prevent the printing or publishing of illustrations in black and white of foreign postage or revenue stamps from plates so defaced as to indicate that the illustrations are not adapted or intended for use as stamps, or toMaking plates for albums, etc. prevent or forbid the making of necessary plates therefor for use in philatelic or historical articles, books, journals, or albums, or the circulars of legitimate publishers or dealers in such stamps, books, journals, or albums.
Nothing in said sections shall be construed toBorders of United States stamps for illustrations, etc. forbid or prevent similar illustrations, in black and white only, in philatelic or historical articles, books, journals, albums, or the circulars of legitimate publishers or dealers in such stamps, books, journals, albums, or circulars, of such portion of the border of a stamp of the United States as may be necessary to show minor differences in the stamp so illustrated, but all such illustrations shall be atIncreased size required. least four times as large as the portion of the original United States stamp so illustrated.
Approved, March 3, 1923.