_General Statutes, Section 6390. Use of Drugs or Instruments to Prevent Conception._ Every person who shall use any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than $50.00 or imprisoned not less than 60 days nor more than one year or both. The proposed bill would repeal the above section, and enact the following new section. The giving by a physician licensed to practice or by a duly registered nurse to any person applying to him or her, of information or advice in regard to, or the supplying by such physician or nurse, or on a prescription signed legibly by him or her, of any article or medicine for the prevention of conception shall not be a violation of the statutes of this State. APPENDIX NO. 8 NEW JERSEY LAW AND _Amendment Proposed by the American Birth Control League_ AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act for the punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898), approved June Fourteenth, one thousand and eight hundred and ninety-eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section fifty-three of the act to which this act is amendatory be and hereby is amended so as to read as follows: 53. Any person who without just cause, shall utter or expose to the view of another, or to have in his possession, with intent so to utter or expose to view, or to sell the same, any obscene or indecent book, pamphlet, picture, or other representation, however made; or any instrument, medicine, or other thing, designed or purporting to be designed for the prevention of conception, or the procuring of abortion, or who shall in any wise advertise, or aid, or assist in advertising the same, or in any manner, whether 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, bought or sold, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, _THE CONTRACEPTIVE TREATMENT OF MARRIED PERSONS BY DULY PRACTICING PHYSICIANS, OR UPON THEIR WRITTEN PRESCRIPTION, shall be deemed a just cause hereunder_. The underlined clause is the amendment desired by the American Birth Control League. APPENDIX NO. 9 CALIFORNIA LAW AND _Amendment Introduced in 1917 by Senator Chamberlain and Assemblyman Wishard_ The California law is Section 317 of the Penal Code under the Chapter Heading, “INDECENT EXPOSURE, OBSCENE EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS AND PRINTS, AND BAWDY AND OTHER DISORDERLY HOUSES.” The bill introduced by Senator Chamberlain and Assemblyman Wishard amended the Section by striking out the words “or for the prevention of conception.” The wording of the Section is as follows: