Volume 45
Public Law 70–79
To divest goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined by convicts or prisoners of their interstate character in certain cases.
Approved January 19, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
To divest goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined by convicts or prisoners of their interstate character in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all 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 and/or reformatory institutions,
Exceptions.
except commodities manufactured in Federal penal and correctional institutions for use by the Federal Government, transported into any State or Territory of the United States and remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage, shall upon arrival and delivery in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory to the same extent and in the same manner as though such goods, wares, and merchandise had been manufactured,
Original packages not exempt.
produced, or mined in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced in the original package or otherwise.
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect five years after the date of its approval.
Approved, January 19, 1929.