The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-07
Federal Law on Shipping Alcoholic
i.iQuOrS

The following extract from an act
passed March 1909 on the shipment
of liquor may not only be of interest
but it may prove helpful to the Off
GERS whose duty it is to enforce
the law, and who are trying to en-
force it:
Section 23S. Any officer, agent or
employee of any railroad company,
express company or other common
carrier, who shall knowingly deliver
or cause to be delivered to any per-
son other than the person to whom
it has been consigned, unless upon
the bona fide consignee, or to any
fictitious person or to any person
under a fictitious name, any spiritu-
Gus, vinous, matted, fermented, or
other intoxicating liquor of any kind,
which has been shipped from one
State, Territory or district Of the
United States, or place non-contigu-
Gus to but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof into any other State, Terri
tory or district of the United States
or place non-contiguous to but sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, or
from any foreign country into any
State, Territory or district of the
United States, or place non-contigu-
GUS to but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, shall be fined not more than
five thousand dollars, or imprisoned
not more than two years, or both.
Section 239. Any railroad COM
pany, express company, or other
common carrier, or any person who
in connection with the transporta-
ton of any spirituous, vinous, malt
ed, fermented or other intoxicating
liquor of any kind from one State,
Territory or district Of the United
States or place non-contiguous to but
subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
into any other State, Territory or
district of the United States, or place
non-contiguous to, but subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, or from any for
eign country into any State, Terri
tory or district of the United States,
or place non-contiguous to, but sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall
collect the purchase price or any
part thereof, before, on, or after de-
any other person, or shall in any
manner act as the agent of the buyer
or seller of any such liquor for the
purpose of buying or selling or COM
pleting the sale thereof, saving only
in the actual transportation and de-
livery of the same, shall be fined not
more than five thousand dollars.
Section 240. Whoever shall know
ingly ship or cause to be shipped,
from one State, Territory or district
of the United States, or place non
contiguous to but subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, into any other
State, Territory or district of the
United States, or place non-contlgu-
Gus to but subject 70 the jurisdiction
thereof, or from any foreign country
into any State, Territory or district
of the United States or, place non
contiguous to, but subject to the ju-
risdiction thereof, any package or
packages containing any spirituous,
vinous, matted, fermented or other
intoxicating liquor of any kind, un-
less such package be so labelled on
the outside cover as to plainly show
the name of the consignee, the ma
ture of it's contents, and the quantity
contained therein, shall be fined not
more than five thousand dollars; and
such liquor 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