Federal Penal Code.
Whoever shall bring or cause to be brought into the United States or
any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof from any foreign country
or shall therein knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited with any
express company or other common carrier for carriage from one State,
territory or district of the United States, or in place non-contiguous
to, but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any place in or
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States through a foreign
country to any place in or subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States, any obscene, lewd or lascivious or any filthy book, pamphlet,
picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent
character, of any drug, medicine, article or thing designed, adapted
or intended for [preventing conception or] producing abortion, or for
any indecent or immoral use, or any written or printed card, letter,
circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement or notice of any kind, giving
information directly or indirectly, where, how, or of whom, or by what
means any of the hereinbefore-mentioned articles, matters, or things
may be obtained or made, or whoever shall knowingly take or cause to
be taken from such express company or common carrier, any matter or
thing, the depositing of which for carriage is herein made unlawful,
shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not
more than five years or both. _But no book, pamphlet, paper, letter,
writing, circular, advertisement, notice or print is obscene, lewd,
lascivious or filthy, by reason of the fact that it mentions, discusses
or recommends prevention of conception, or gives information concerning
methods or means for the prevention of conception: or tells how, where,
or in what manner such information or such means can be obtained: and
no drug, medicine, article or thing shall be for indecent or immoral
use because it is designed, adapted or intended for the prevention of
conception._
(Matter in brackets omitted; matter in italics new.)
NEW YORK STATUTES
PENAL LAW.