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Webb-Kenyon Act

In force

Codified at27 U.S.C. § 122

Enacted March 1, 1913 · ch. 90, 37 Stat. 699

Enacted over President Taft’s veto.

The Webb-Kenyon Act of 1913 prohibits shipping intoxicating liquor into a State to be received, possessed, or sold in violation of that State’s laws — closing the gap the Wilson Act left for direct-to-consumer shipments. Passed over President Taft’s veto, it was upheld in Clark Distilling Co. v. Western Maryland Railway (1917) and is codified at 27 U.S.C. § 122.