The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-18


Washington, IN the District Of Columbia, on
Monday the second day Of December, A. d. 1861,
and snded on Thursday the nth day Of July,
| A. d. 1862.
PUBLIC ACTS.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. President HANNIBAL HAM
| LIN Vice President, and President OF the Sen
ate. SOLOMON FooTE was elected PRESIDENT
| day of July. and continued so to act until the
close of the session. GALUsHA A: GROW,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SPIRITS, ALE, BEER AND PORTER.
Sec 80. And he it further enacted, That
shall be the duty of the collectors, within
their respective districts, to grant licenses
for distiiling, which licenses shall contain
the date thereof, the sum paid, and the time
when the same will expire, and shall be
granted to any person being a resident OF
the United States who shall desire the same
by application, in writing, to such collector,
upon payment of the sum or duty payable
by this act upon each license requested
And at the time of applying for said license,
and before the same is issued, the person so
applying shall give bond to the United
States in such sum as shall be required by
| the collector, with one or more SuretleS, to
be approved by said collector, conditioned
that in case any additional still or stills, or
other implements to be used as aforesaid,
shall be erected by him, his agent or super
intendent, he will, before using, or causing
or permitting the same to be used, report i'll
writing to the said collector the capacity
| thereof and information from time to time
of any change in the form, capacity, owner
| ship, agency or superintendent, which all
or either of the said stills or other impe-
ments may undergo; and that he will, from
day to day, enter or caused to be entered, in
a book to be kept for that purpose, the num-
| hprO of of baf ~
| by said still or stills, other implements
and also of the quantities of grain or other
vegetable productions other substances
! put into the mash-tub, or otherwise used by
| him, his agent, superintendent. for the
purpose of producing spirits, which said
book shall be open at all times during the
day (Sundays excepted) to the inspection of
the said collector, who may make any mem
orandums or transcripts therefrom and that
! he will render to the said collector on the
! first, tenth and twentieth days of each and
every month, or within five days thereafter,
during the continuance of said license, an
exact account, in writing, taken from his
| books, of the number of gallons of spirits
distilled and sold, or removed for consump-
| tion or sale, by him, his agent or superin-
| tenClent, and the proof thereof, and also OF
| the quantities of grain or other vegetable
| productions. or other substances, put into
! the nlash-tub, or otherwise used by him, his
| agent superintendent. for the purpose of
producing spirits, for the period or fraction
| al part of month then next preceding the
date of said report, which said report shall
be verified by affidavit in the manner pre-
scribed by this act; and that he will not
sell or permit to be sold or removed for con-
sumption or sale, any spirits distilled by him
under and virtue of his said license, until
the same shall have been inspected, gagged
and proved and the quantity thereof duly
anita off
that he will at the time of rendering said
account, pay to the said collector the duties
which by this act are imposed on the spirits
so distilled; and the said bond may he re-
newed or changed, from time to time. in re-
gard 20 the amount and sureties thereof, ac
cording to the discretion of the collector.
Sec. 40. And be it further enacted, That |
the application in writing made by any per |
son for a license for distiling as aforesaid |
shall state the place of distilling, the number |
and capacity of the still or stills boiler or !
boilers, and the name of the person, firm, |
company or corporation using the same !; and |
any person making a false statement in any
of the said particulars shall forfeit and pay !
the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recov- |
cred with costs of suit.
Sec Al And he it further enacted, That |
in addition to the duties payable for licenses
herein provided, there shall be paid on all |
spirits that may be distilled and sold, re- !
moved for consumption or sale, of first proof |
on and after the first day of August. eighteen |
hundred and siXty-two, the duty of twenty |
cents on each and every gallon which shall |
be paid by the owner, agent or superinten- |
dent of the still or other vessel in which the |
said spirituous liquors shall have been dis |
titled which duty shall be paid at the time |
of rendering the accounts of spirituous liq- |
uors so chargeable with duty, required to be !
rendered by this act: Provided, That the |
duty on spirituous liquors and all other spir-
ituous beverages enumerated in this act shall
be collected at no lower rate than the basis
of first proof, and shall be increased in pro-
portion for any greater strength than the
strength of proof.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted, That
the term first proof used in this act and in
section six of the act of March second, eigh-
teen hundred and siXty-one, entitled IAN act
to provide for the payment of outstanding
treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regu-
late and fix the duties on imports, and for
other purposes" shall be construed and is
hereby declared to mean, that proof of Ii
quor which corresponds to fifty degrees of
Tralles' centesimal hydr0meter, adopted by
regulation of the Treasury Department. of
August twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty,
at the temperature of sixty degrees of Fab
renheit's thermometer; and that in reducing
the temperatures to the standard of sixty, |
and III levylng duties on liquors above and
below proof the table of commetcial values,
contained in the manual for inspectors of spi- |
rits, prepared by Professor MeCalloh, under
the superintendeuce of Professor Baehe, and
adopted by the-Treasury Department, shall
be used and taken as giving the proportions
of absolute alcohol in the liz quids gagged and
proved according to which duties shall be
levied.
Sec. 49, And be it further enacted That
there shall be designated by the collector in
every assessment district where the same may
be necessary one or more inspectors, who
shall take an oath faithfully to perform their |
duties in such form as .he Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shall prescribe, and who |
shall be entitled to receive such fees as may !
be fixed and prescribed by said commission |
er And all spirits distilled as afOmsaid by |
any person licensed as aforesaid shall, before !
the same is used, OR removed for eonsump- |
ton or sale, be inspected, gagged, and prov
ed by some person SO aforesaid .designat- |