tion of the morals of youth, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 2231 Rev. Statutes, Delaware, 1915.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Forbids "obscene books, pamphlets, etc., and "articles of indecent or immoral use or any drug, etc., intended to produce abortion." Sec. 872, Code of March 3, 1901, Dist. of Columbia.

FLORIDA. Whoever knowingly advertises, prints, publishes, distributes or circulates, books, papers, etc., . . "for the purpose of causing or procuring the miscarriage of any woman pregnant with child," punishable in state prison up to one year, or fine to $1,000. Sec. 3539 Compiled Laws of Fla., 1914.

Sec. 3540. Whoever imports, prints, publishes, sells, or distributes any book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing containing obscene language, or any obscene prints, figures, pictures or descriptions manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth, or introduces into any family, school or place of education, or buys, procures, receives or has in his possession any such book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing, either for the purpose of sale, exhibition, loan, or circulation, or with the intent to introduce the same into any family, school or place of education, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison," etc.

GEORGIA. (Parks' Annotated Code of Georgia, 1914, seems to contain nothing relating to birth control, directly or indirectly.)

HAWAII. The importing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, putting into circulation, distributing, lending, exhibiting publicly, or introducing into any family, school or place of education, any obscene picture, or pamphlet, sheet or other thing, containing obscene language, obscene prints, figures, descriptions, or representations, manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth, or of morals generally; or buying, procuring, receiving or having in possession, any such picture, book, pamphlet, sheet, or other thing, with intent to sell, circulate, distribute, lend or exhibit the same, or to introduce the same into any family, school, or place of education, is a common nuisance. Section 4129, Revised Laws of Hawaii, 1915; Penal Code, 1869, ch. 36. Section 4130 provides for seizure of such things upon warrant.

IDAHO. Idaho Revised Codes of 1908, sec. 7695 (same in Rev. Stat., 1887), provides that in proceeding in court against this class of offenses, the complaint "need not set forth any portion of the language," etc.

Idaho Rev. Code, sec. 6840, of 1908 (same as R. S. 1887), is the same as California Penal Code of 1872, and Arizona Code, except that clause 4, after “or,” omits the provision about miscarriage.

Idaho Code, 1908, sec. 6841, provides how officials "may seize any obscene or indecent writing, paper, book, picture, print, or figure, found in the possession of, or under the control of a person so arrested (for violation of the preceding section), and to deliver same to the magistrate before whom the person so arrested is taken."

Idaho Code, 1908, sec. 6843, is like R. S. Arizona, sec. 318. ILLINOIS. Forbids to "bring in or sell, etc., any book, pamphlet, etc., instrument, or article of indecent or immoral use (states) where such indecent or obscene articles and things may be pur

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chased or otherwise obtained or (to) manufacture ticles."-Illinois Statutes Annotated, 1913, sec. 3861. Sec. 3862, ibid., forbids to "deposit (such) in postoffice or in express office or with a common carrier or other person."

INDIANA. Whoever sells or lends, or offers to sell or lend, or gives away, or offers to give away, or in any manner exhibits, or has in his possession with or without intent to sell, lend or give away, any obscene, lewd, indecent or lascivious book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, engraving, picture, daguerreotype, photo, stereoscopic picture, model, cast, instrument or article or indecent or immoral use, or instrument or article for procuring abortion, or for self-pollution, or medicine for procuring abortion or preventing conception, or advertising the same, or any of them for sale, or writes or prints any letter, circular, handbill, card, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating when, how, where, or by what means or of whom any of the obscene, lewd, indecent or lascivious articles or things hereinbefore mentioned can be purchased, borrowed, presented, or otherwise obtained, or are manufactured; or whoever manufactures, draws, prints," etc. (such things), shall be fined $10 to $5,000, and may be further imprisoned ten days to six months, "but this shall not affect teaching in regularly chartered medical colleges," etc.-Burns' Annotated Indiana Statutes, 1914, section 2359.

Sec. 2360, ibid., forbids depositing any of the things denounced in section 2359, in postoffice or express office, or in charge of any person or corporation to be carried or conveyed.

Sec. 2362 is the same as sec. 13034 of Ohio.

IOWA. "Whoever sells, or offers to sell, or gives away, or has in his possession with intent to sell or give away any obscene, lewd book, etc., or any instrument or article of indecent or immoral use, or any medicine or thing designed or intended for procuring abortion or preventing conception, or advertising the same" shall be fined $50 to $1,000, or sentenced to jail not over one year, or both fine and jail.-Code of Iowa, 1897, sec. 4952, being act 21 General Assembly, ch. 177, sec. 1, amended by ch. 170 of 34 G. A. 1911.

Sec. 4953, Code Iowa, forbids depositing such things in the postoffice, or in charge of any one to be carried or conveyed, as are forbidden in the preceding section, 4952.

KANSAS. "If any publisher or other person shall, by printing, writing, or in any other way, publish, or cause to be published, or expose to sale any obscene pictures; an account, advertisement or description of any drug, medicine, instrument or apparatus used or recommended to be used, for the purpose of preventing conception, or procuring abortion or miscarriage; or shall by writing or printing in any circular, newspaper, pamphlet, or book, or in any way, publish or circulate any advertisement or obscene notice herein recited; or shall within the state of Kansas keep for sale or for gratuitous distribution any newspaper, circular, book or pamphlet containing such notice, or advertisement of such drugs, medicines, instrument or apparatus; or shall keep for sale any secret nostrum, drug, medicine, instrument or apparatus named; such publisher or other person

shall be fined $50 to $1,000 or 30 days to six months in jail, or both. Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the publication and sale of standard medical works.-General Statutes of Kansas, 1915, sec. 3676, being laws of 1874, chapter 89, section one.

"Every person or persons who shall bring or cause to be brought into the state, or shall buy, sell, or cause to be sold, or shall advertise, lend, give away, offer, show, exhibit, or have in his possession, with the intent to sell, lend, give away, offer, show, exhibit, distribute, or cause to be distributed, or shall design, copy, draw, photograph, print, etch, or engrave, cut, carve, make, publish, or otherwise prepare or assist in preparing, or shall receive subscriptions for any indecent or obscene book, pamphlet, paper, picture, print, drawing, figure, image, or other engraved, printed or written matter, or any article or instrument of immoral use, or any book, pamphlet, magazine, or paper devoted principally or wholly to the publication of criminal news or pictures; or stories of deeds of bloodshed or crime, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor (penalty, $5 to 300, or not over 30 days in jail, or both).-Sec. 3677 Gen. Stat., 1915, being chapter 101, section 1, laws of 1886.

KENTUCKY. Section 1352 of Carroll's Kentucky Statutes, 1915, forbids the sale, etc., . . . of any immoral or obscene book, etc., "or any article or instrument of indecent or immoral use" allusion is made to the purpose of such article or instrument.-Act of Jan. 27, 1894.

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Sec. 1355 provides that the preceding sections do not apply to works of a scientific character, or on anatomy, surgery and obstetrics, or other scientific publications, nor prevent issuing and selling such books.

LOUISIANA. If any person shall bring or cause to be brought into this state, for sale or exhibition or shall sell or offer to sell, or shall give away or offer to give away, or, having possession thereof, shall knowingly exhibit to another, any indecent pictorial newspaper, tending to debauch the morals, or any indecent or obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, engraving, daguerreotype, photograph, picture, or any model, cast, instrument or article of indecent and obscene use, or shall advertise any of said articles or things for sale, by any form of notice, printed, written, or verbal, or shall manufacture, draw or print any of said articles, with intent to sell or expose, or to circulate the same, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Revised Statutes of Louisiana, 1915, Marr's annot., vol. 1, sec. 2088; Laws, 1884, p. 148, act 111.

MAINE. Revised Statutes of Maine, 1916, chapter 126, section 23, forbids publications tending to corruption of the morals of youth. The same as Florida, sec. 3540. Section 24 authorizes seizure of such when an arrest is made.

MASSACHUSETTS. Chapter 212, section 20, Revised Statutes of Massachusetts, 1902, penalizes "whoever imports, prints, etc., paper, pamphlet, etc.,

The same as Florida, sec. 3540.

any book,

tending to corrupt the morals of youth."

Chap. 212, sec. 26, penalizes "whoever sells, lends, gives away, exhibits or offers to sell, lend or give away an instrument or other article intended to be used for self-abuse, or any drug for self-abuse, or any drug, medi

cine, instrument or article whatever for prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or advertises the same, or writes, prints, or causes to be written or printed a card, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement or notice of any kind stating when, where, how, of whom or by what means such article can be purchased or obtained, or manufactures or makes any such article, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison," etc.

MARYLAND. Public General Laws of Maryland, 1914, Bagby, vol. 3, article 27, sec. 372, forbids to "bring into the state, sell, lend, etc., obscene or indecent books, etc., or any article or instrument of indecent or immoral use, or shall design . . article, or prepare such or shall (give) written information or orally, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means such a lewd, indecent, or obscene article or thing can be purchased, seen, or obtained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor

.; provided that this section shall not apply to any person committing the acts thereby prohibited with intent to prevent violations of this subtitle, or to procure the punishment of offenses against the same. (No specific purpose is mentioned.)

MICHIGAN. Howell's Michigan Statutes, 1913, chapter 406, section 14785, prohibits anyone to "import, print, etc. (matter), tending to corrupt the morals of youth." The same as Florida, sec. 3540.

Section 14786 authorizes a search warrant to seek such. Section 14787 refers to "prints, articles, instruments," etc., but no specific purpose thereof is denounced.

MINNESOTA.

Section 8705, General Statutes, Minnesota, 1913, is the same as California, section 311.

Sec. 8706 makes it a crime to "sell, lend, etc., have in possession to sell, advertise to sell, or distribute, any instrument or article, or any drug or medicine for the prevention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion, . . ." or to give oral information where such can be obtained or who manufactures such articles, etc.

MISSISSIPPI. Hemingway's Annotated Code of Mississippi of 1917, section 1025, forbids persons to sell, lend, etc., articles, etc., of indecent or obscene use, but names no specific purpose of such articles, etc.

Section 1026 is the same as Section 8706 of Minnesota.

MISSOURI. Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, section 4737, forbids anyone to manufacture, print, publish, buy, sell, etc., indecent or immoral articles, etc. (but names no specific purpose of such articles).

Section 4738 penalizes the deposit of any such forbidden things in the postoffice, or placing them in charge of any person to be carried or conveyed. MONTANA. Section 8399 of the Revised Statutes of Montana, 1907,

is the same as Arizona, § 318, and California, § 317.

NEBRASKA. Whoever sells, etc., things of obscene or immoral nature is punishable, but no special purpose of such articles is named.-Revised Statutes of Nebraska, 1913, sec. 8787. Sec. 8788 is the same as sec. 4738 of Missouri.

NEVADA. Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, section 6461, is the same as section 313 of Arizona and section 311 of California.

Section 7069 provides that in prosecuting the exact language used by the defendant need not be set out in the complaint, etc.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Public Statutes of New Hampshire, 1901, Supplement of 1913 and Laws of 1915 and 1917, appear to contain nothing relating to birth control.

NEW JERSEY. "Any person who, without just cause, shall utter or expose to view of another, or have in his possession (with such intent) or to sell, any obscene or indecent book, pamphlet, etc., or any instrument, medicine, or other thing designed or purporting to be designed for the prevention of conception or the procuring of abortion, or shall in anywise advertise the same or in any manner by recommendation against its use or otherwise, give or cause to be given, or aid in giving any information, how or where any of the same may be had or seen or bought or sold, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."--Compiled Statutes of New Jersey, 1910, vol. 2, p. 1762, sec. 53; P. L. 1898, p. 808.

NEW MEXICO. New Mexico Annotated Statutes, 1915, and Laws, 1917 and 1918, appear to contain no enactment relating to Birth Control, or kindred matters.

NEW YORK. Section 1141, of the Penal Law of New York, Laws of 1909, ch. 88, forbids anyone to sell, lend, etc., . anything immoral,

etc., but names no especial purpose of such thing forbidden.

Section 1142, same statute of New York: “A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any manner exhibits or offers to sell, lend or give away, or has in his possession with intent to sell, lend or give away, or advertises, or offers for sale, loan or distribution, any instrument or article, or any recipe, drug or medicine for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or purporting to be for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or advertises, or holds out representations that it can be so used or applied, or any such description as will be calculated to lead another to so use or apply any such article, recipe, drug, medicine or instrument, or who writes or prints, or causes to be written or printed a card, circular, pamphlet, advertisement or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating when, where, how, of whom or by what means such an instrument, article, recipe, drug or medicine can be purchased or obtained, or who manufactures any such instrument, article, recipe, drug or medicine, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to the same penalties," etc.

Sec. 1143 penalizes depositing any such thing, etc., in a post office, express office, or with a common carrier, or other person for transportation.

Sec. 1145. "An article or instrument, used or applied by physicians lawfully practising, or by their direction and prescription, for the cure or prevention of disease, is not an article of indecent or immoral nature or use within this article. The supplying of such articles to such physicians, or by their direction or prescription, is not an offense under this article.

NORTH CAROLINA. Pell's Revisal of North Carolina Statute Laws, 1908, Gregory's Supplement, 1913, and Laws, 1915 and 1917, appear to contain no law on matters like Birth Control.