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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · July 24, 1935 · Public Law 216

Public Law 216.

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(/us/pl/74/215).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Prison-made products.Interstate transportation, etc., of, in certain cases, forbidden. That it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to transport or cause to be transported, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for or in transporting any goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners (except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation), or in any penal or reformatory institution, from one State, Territory, Puerto Pico, Virgin Islands, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country, into any State, Territory, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous but subject to Federal use of.the jurisdiction thereof, where said goods, wares, and merchandise are intended by any person interested therein to be received, possessed, sold, or m any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise in violation of any law of such State, Territory, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
Nothing herein shall apply to commodities manufactured in Federal penal and correctional institutions for use by the Federal Government. Sec. 2. Marking requirements. All packages containing any goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation, or in any penal or reformatory institution, when shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and address of the shipper, the name and address of the consignee, the nature of the contents, and the name 495and location of the penal or reformatory institution where produced wholly or in part may be readily ascertained on an inspection of the outside of such package.
Sec. 3. Any person violating any provision of this Act shall for Punishment for violation.each offense, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, and such goods, wares, and merchandise shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the seizure and forfeiture of property imported into the United States contrary to law. Sec. 4. Any violation of this Act shall be prosecuted in any court Jurisdiction of courts.having jurisdiction of crime within the district in which said violation was committed, or from, or into which any such goods, wares, or merchandise may have been carried or transported, or in any Territory, Puerto Kico, Virgin Islands, or the District of Columbia, contrary to the provisions of this Act.
Approved, July 24, 1935. To amend section 114 of the Judicial Code to provide for terms of District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin to be held at Wausau, Wisconsin, and for other purposes. 1935-07-24 413 Chapter 49 Stat. 495 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 413.] AN ACT To amend section 114 of the Judicial Code to provide for terms of District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin to be held at Wausau, Wisconsin, and for other purposes.
July 24, 1935.[[S. 1309](/us/bill/74/s/1309).][[Public, No. 216](/us/pl/74/216).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 114 United States courts.Vol. 36, p. 1129.[U. S. C., p. 1256](/us/usc/1256).of the Judicial Code (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 195) is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 114. The State of Wisconsin is divided into two districts, Wisconsin judicial districts.to be known as the eastern and western districts of Wisconsin.
Eastern district.The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Brown, Calumet, Dodge, Door, Florence, Fond du Lac, Forest, Green Lake, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Langlade, Manitowoc, Marinette, Marquette, Milwaukee, Oconto, Outagamie, Ozaukee, Racine, Shawano, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago. Terms of the district Terms.court for said district shall be held in Milwaukee on the first Mondays in January and October, at Oshkosh on the second Tuesday in June, and at Green Bay on the first Tuesday in April.
The western Western district.district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Grant, Green, Iowa, Iron, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, La Crosse, Lafayette, Lincoln, Marathon, Monroe, Oneida, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Portage, Price, Richland, Rock, Rusk, Saint Croix, Sauk, Sawyer, Taylor, Trempealeau, Vernon, Vilas, Washburn, and Wood.
Terms of the district court for said district shall Terms.be held at Madison on the first Tuesday in December, at Eau Claire on the first Tuesday in June, at La Crosse on the third Tuesday in September, at Wausau on the second Tuesday in April, and at Superior on the fourth Tuesday in January and the second Tuesday in July. The district court for each of said districts Admiralty, etc., jurisdiction.shall be open at all times for the purpose of hearing and deciding causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction so far as the same can be done without a jury.
The clerk of the court for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Madison, at La Crosse, at Wausau, and at Superior, which shall be kept open at all times for the transactions of the business of the court. The marshal for the western district shall appoint a deputy 496Return of process at Superior.marshal who shall reside and keep his office at Superior. All writs and other process, except criminal warrants, issued at Superior, may be made returnable at Superior; and the clerk at that place shall keep in his office the original records of all actions, prosecutions, and special proceedings so commenced and pending therein.
Criminal warrants.Criminal warrants may be returned at any place within the district where court is held. Whenever warrants issued at Superior shall be returned at any other place the clerk of the court wherein the warrant is returned shall certify the same under the seal of the court, together with the plea and other proceedings had thereon and the determination of the court upon such plea or proceedings, with all papers and orders filed in reference thereto, to the clerk of the court at Superior; and the clerk at Superior shall enter upon his records a minute of the proceedings had upon the return of said warrant, certified as aforesaid.
All causes and proceedings instituted in the court at Superior shall be tried therein, unless by consent of the parties, or upon the order of the court, they are transferred to another place for trial”. " Approved, July 24, 1935. To amend an Act entitled “An Act setting aside Rice Lake and contiguous lands in Minnesota for the exclusive use and benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota”, approved June 23, 1926, and for other purposes. 1935-07-24 414 Chapter 49 Stat. 496 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 414.] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act setting aside Rice Lake and contiguous lands in Minnesota for the exclusive use and benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota”, approved June 23, 1926, and for other purposes. July 24, 1935.[[S. 2532](/us/bill/74/s/2532).][
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