This law designated that a special agent be appointed by the postal service to enforce its dictates, and Comstock was the first to serve in this post. Through this position and through the Society for the Suppression of Vice which he created, he and his colleagues rigorously enforced the Comstock Law, making it very difficult for late 19th and early 20th century advocates of birth control to send out birth control information. Near the end of his career Comstock bragged that: (quote, Cirillo, p. 265].