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Chap. 53: To amend section 217, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909. 1929-01-11 53 Chapter 45 Stat. 1072 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 53.— An Act To amend section 217, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909.
January 11, 1929.[[S. 3127](/us/bill/70/s/3127).][[Public, No. 649](/us/pl/70/649).] *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.[U. S. Code, p. 407](/us/usc/p407). That section 217, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March 4, 1909, be Postal offenses.amended to read as follows: " Poisons, explosives, disease germs, etc., nonmailable.“All kinds of poison, and all articles and compositions containing poison, and all poisonous animals, insects, and reptiles, and explosives of a,11 kinds, and inflammable materials, and infernal machines, and Vol. 41, p. 620, amended.mechanical, chemical, or other devices or compositions which may ignite or explode, and all disease germs or scabs, and all other natural or artificial articles, compositions, or material, 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 Transmission permitted of articles not outwardly dangerous, etc.carrier; but the Postmaster General may permit the transmission in the mails, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe as to preparation and packing, of any articles hereinbefore described which are not outwardly or of their own force dangerous or injurious to *Provisos*.Limitation of shipments to physicians, etc.life, health, or property: *Provided*, That the transmission in the mails of poisonous drugs and medicines may be limited by the Postmaster General to shipments of such articles from the manufacturer thereof or dealer therein to licensed physicians, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists, druggists, and veterinarians, under such rules and regulations Intoxicating liquors nonmailable.as he shall prescribe: *Provided further*, That all spiritous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquors of any kind are hereby declared to be nonmailable and shall not be deposited in Punishment for unauthorized mailings, etc.or carried through the mails.
Whoever 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 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, Punishment for mailing articles with injurious intent.or both; and whoever 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 authorized1073to be prescribed by the Postmaster General or not, with the design, intent, or purpose to kill or in any wise 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.
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