The Jones Act increased the penalties this act laid out, while a supplementary act of 1921 extended the law to Hawaii and the Virgin Islands and limited use by medical prescription.
The Jones Act increased the penalties this act laid out, while a supplementary act of 1921 extended the law to Hawaii and the Virgin Islands and limited use by medical prescription. Passed over a veto on October 28, 1919, it went into effect the nex  t January, entrusting the Bureau of Internal Revenue with administration and defining any beverage containing more than one half of one percent alcohol as liquor. FTP, give the common name of this act, which enforced the 18th Amendment, and which was off  icially known as the National Prohibition Enforcement Act.
The Jones Act increased the penalties this act laid out, while a supplementary act of 1921 extended the law to Hawaii and the Virgin Islands and limited use by medical prescription.
{Volstead} act (prompt on early National Prohibition Enforcement Act)