Volume 49
Public Law 74–29
To amend the Act entitled “An Act forbidding the transportation of any person in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped, or otherwise unlawfully detained, and making such Act a felony”, as amended.
Approved January 24, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act forbidding the transportation of any person in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped, or otherwise unlawfully detained, and making such Act a felony”, as amended.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act
Federal Kidnaping Act, amendment.
Vol. 48, p. 781; U. S. C., p. 756.
entitled “An Act forbidding the transportation of any person in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped, or otherwise unlawfully detained, and making such act a felony”, as amended (48 Stat. 781; U. S. C., title 18, secs. 408a, 408b, and 408c, be, and it is hereby, amended by the addition of the following section:
“Sec. 4.
Whoever receives, possesses, or disposes of any money or
Knowingly handling ransom money, etc.
other property, or any portion thereof, which has at any time been delivered as ransom or reward in connection with a violation of section 1 of this Act, knowing the same to be money or property which has been at any time delivered as such ransom or reward, shall be
Punishment.
punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than ten years, or both.”
Approved, January 24, 1936.