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 1291 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG, 1ST SESS.-CHS. 617, 618-AUG. 9, 1939 [CHAPTER 617] ATJ A(rT August 9, 1939 To repeal the minimum-price limitation on sale of the Akron, Ohio, old post-office [H. R . 6021] building and site. [Public, No. 35i] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following parts of Acts regulating sale of the Akron, Ohio, old post-office build- ing and site are hereby repealed: (a) The proviso limiting the last sentence of section 13 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public build- ings**, approved March 4, 1913 (Public, Numbered 432, Sixty-second Congress; 37 Stat. 882), reading as follows: "Provided, That said building and site shall not be sold for any sum less than $100,000."; (b) The last clause of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the sale of the Government property acquired for a post-office site in Akron, Ohio", approved May 13, 1930 (Public, Numbered 206, Seventy-first Congress; 46 Stat. 274), reading as follows: "and to sell the remainder of the site upon the terms and conditions provided in the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1913, authorizing the sale of the above old post-office property in Akron, Ohio." Approved, August 9, 1939. [CHAPTER 618] AN ACT To provide for the seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used to transport narcotic drugs, firearms, and counterfeit coins, obligations, securities, and paraphernalia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) it shall be unlawful (1) to transport, carry, or convey any contraband article in, upon, or by means of any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft; (2) to con- ceal or possess any contraband article in or upon any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft, or upon the person of anyone in or upon any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft; or (3) to use any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft to facilitate the transportation, carriage, conveyance, conceallment, receipt, possession, purchase, sale, barter, exchange, or giving away of any contraband article. (b) As used in this section, the term "contraband article" means- (1) Any narcotic drug which has been or is possessed with intent to sell or offer for sale in violation of any laws or regulations of the United States dealing therewith, or which is sold or offered for sale in violation thereof, or which does not bear appropriate tax-paid internal-revenue stamps as required by law or regulations; (2) Any firearm, with respect to which there has been committed any violation of any provision of the National Firearms Act, as now or hereafter amended, or any regulation issued pursuant thereto; or (3) Any falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeit coin or obli- gation or other security of the United States or of any foreign gov- ernment; or any material or apparatus, or paraphernalia fitted or intended to be used, or which shall have been used, in the making of any such falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeit coin or obli- gation or other security. SEC. 2. Any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft which has been or is being used in violation of any provision of section 1, or in, upon, or by means of which any violation of section 1 has taken or is taking Akron, Ohio, old post-office building and site. Minimum price lim- itation on sale of, repealed. 37 Stat. 882. Clause authorizing sale of remainder of site repealed. 46 Stat. 274. August 9, 1939 [H. R. 6556] [Public, No. 357] Transportation, etc., of contraband articles by vessels, vehicles. or aircrfit, unlawful. "Contraband arti- cle" defined. Narcotic drug. Firearm. 48 Stat. 1236 . 26U.S.C.i§1132- 1132q; Supp. IV, ch. 15A. Counterfeit coin, obligation, etc. Seizure and forfei- ture of vessels, etc., transporting contra- band. 98907° - 39--PT 2 -50

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