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forfeitures. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be
paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of
the United States.
Any officer or employee of the commission who shall make
public any information obtained by the commission without its
authority, unless directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a
disdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $ 5000, or by imprisonment not exceeding
one year, or by fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court.

See. 11, Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to
prevent or interfere with the enforcement of the provisions of
the anti-trust Acts or Acts to regulate commerce, nor shall anything
contained in the Act be construed to alter, modify, or repeal the
said anti-trust Acts or Acts to regulate commerce or any part
or parts thereof.

IV. COMBINATIONS IN IMPORT TRADE.

Act of August 27, 1894, Chap. 349. (Wilson tarriffact) as
amended by Act of February 12, 1913, Chap. 40.

Sec. 73. Every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or
contract is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy,
illegal and void, when the same is made by or between two or
more persons or corporations either of whom, as agent or principal,
is engaded in importing any article from any foreign country
into the United States, and when such combination, conspiracy,
trust, agreement, or contract is intended to operate in restraint
of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade or commerce,
or to increase the market price in any part of the United States
of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported
into the United States, or of any manufacture into which such
imported article enters or is intended to enter. Every person, who
is or shall hereafter be engaged in the importation of goods or
any commodity fromany foreign country in violation of this section