Comstock Act

An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, . . .

Sec. 2. That section one hundred and forty-eight of the act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating ot the Post-office Department, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 148. That no obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, pamphlet, picture, paper, print, or other publication of an indecent character, or any article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortion, nor any article or thing intended or adapted for any indecent or immoral use or nature, nor any written or printed card, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement or notice of any kind giving information, directly or indeirectly, where, or how, or of whom, or by what means either of the things before mentioned may be obtained or made . . . shall be carried in the mail . . ."

Sec. 3. That all persons are prohibited from importing into the United States, from any foreign country, any of the hereinbefore-mentioned articles or things . . .