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Comstock Lode. 1. the most valuable deposit of silver ore ever recorded, discovered in 1859 by Henry T. P. Comstock near Virginia City, Nevada.
The Comstock Law is a federal act passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1873, as the Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. The Act criminalized usage of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:1  erotica,2  contraceptives,nder the Comstock laws, postal inspectors can bar obscene content from the mails at any time, thus having a huge impact on publishers of magazines. Publications addressing homosexuality were deemed obscene under the Comstock Act until 1958.