Chapter 102. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish the unlawful breaking of seals of railroad cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, the unlawful entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express packages or baggage or articles in process of transportation in interstate shipment, and the
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CHAP. 102.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to punish the unlawful breaking of seals of railroad cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, the unlawful entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express packages or baggage or articles in process of transportation in interstate shipment, and the felonious asportation of such freight or express packages or baggage or articles therefrom into another district of the United States, and the felonious possession or reception of the same,” approved February 13, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 670).
January 28, 1925.[[H. R. 4168](/us/bill/68/hr/4168).][[Public, No. 341](/us/pl/68/341).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Act Interstate commerce.Unlawful acts connected with transportation of goods in.Vol. 37, p. 670, amended.entitled “An Act to punish the unlawful breaking of seals of railroad cars containing interstate or foreign shipments, the unlawful entering of such cars, the stealing of freight and express packages or baggage or articles in process of transportation in interstate shipment, and the felonious asportation of such freight or express packages or baggage or articles therefrom into another district of the United States, and the felonious possession or reception of the same,” approved February 13, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 670), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Section 1. That whoever shall unlawfully break the seal of Larceny, etc., of goods from cars, station houses, trucks, vessels, etc.any railroad car containing interstate or foreign shipments of freight or express, or shall enter any such car with intent in either case to commit larceny therein; or whoever shall steal or unlawfully take, carry away, or conceal, or by fraud or deception obtain from any railroad car, station house, platform, depot, wagon, automobile, truck, or other vehicle, or from any steamboat, vessel, or wharf, with intent to convert to his own use. any goods or chattels moving as or which are a part of or which constitute an interstate or foreign shipment of freight or express, or shall buy or receive or have in Receiving stolen property.his possession any such goods or chattels, knowing the same to have been stolen; or whoever shall steal or shall unlawfully take, carryFraudulently taking, etc., baggage. away, or by fraud or deception obtain with intent to convert to his own use any baggage which shall have come into the possession of any common carrier for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia or to a foreign country, or from a foreign country to any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or shall break into, steal, take, carry away, or conceal any of the contents of such baggage, or shall buy, receive, or have in his Receiving, etc., stolen baggage.possession any such baggage or any article therefrom of whatever 794Punishment.Prosecution in district courts.nature, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall in each case be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, and prosecutions therefor may be instituted in any A sporting goods, etc., a separate offense.district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
The carrying or transporting of any such freight, express, baggage, goods, or chattels from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall constitute a separate offense and subject the offender to the penalties above described for unlawful Prosecution in district courts.taking, and prosecutions therefor may be instituted in any district into which such freight, express, baggage, goods, or chattels shall have been removed or into which they shall have been brought by Extension to goods, etc., moving as part of shipments.such offender.
The words ‘station house,’ ‘platform,’ ‘depot,’ ‘wagon,’ ‘automobile,’ ‘truck,’ ‘or other vehicle,’ as used in this section shall include any station house, platform, depot, wagon, automobile, truck, or other vehicle of any person, firm, association, or corporation having in his or its custody therein or thereon any freight, express, goods, chattels, shipments, or baggage moving as or which are a part of or which constitute an interstate or foreign shipment. “Sec. 2. Jurisdiction of State courts not impaired.
That nothing in this Act shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several States under the laws thereof; and a judgment of conviction or acquittal on the merits under the laws of any State shall be a bar to any prosecution hereunder for the same act or acts. “Sec. 3. Waybill prima facie evidence of interstate, etc., shipment. That to establish the interstate or foreign commerce character of any shipment in any prosecution under this Act the waybill of such shipment shall be prima facie evidence of the place from which and to which such shipment was made.
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