Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-10-06
Important to Dealers I'm spirituous Liquors,
MANUFACTURERS OF MALT LIQUORS, AND DEAL
ERs IN PLAYING CARDS, CANNED MEATS. &c

| 1mpOrtan to DeeAerS In SpifttuOUg ora.
] MANUFACTURERS OF MALT LIQUORS, AND DEAL
ERs IN PLAYING CARDS, CANNED MEATS. &e
| Mr. Norcross, Federal Collector for this conn.
ty, has handed a copy of the new laws relat-
ing to Internal Revenue, passed at the last sea.
sion of Congress. There are some important
changes which it is proper that business men
should be aware Of and which We print for their
benefit. The first is in relation to distilled sn;r-
its, and reads:
Sec. l42.-Any person owning any distilled
spirits intended for sale, manufactured prior tn
| the time when this act takes effect, exceeding
fifty gallons altogether, shall notify in writing
the collector of the district wherein such spirits
may be stored, held, or owned, within sixty days
| thereafter, to gauge and prove the same; and
upon the receipt of said notice the collector shall
cause said spirits to be gauged and proved and
the casks or packages containing the same to be
marked by the inspector And no spirits so man.
ufactured, held, or owned, shall be eauged.
proved, or marked in any cstern or other sta.
tionary vessel, but shall be gauged, proved. and
marked only in barrels, casks, or packages in
which the same shall have been placed and the
quantity held in leach-tubs shall be estimated
by the inspector, and when drawn off into pack
ages shall be gauged and marked as herein pro-
vided. Upon the receipt of the return the collect
or shall Immediately forward to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue copy thereof; and any
person holding or owning such spirits, and refu-
sing or neglecting to notify the collector, as in
this section provided, shall forfeit the same and
pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be collect
ed in the manner provided by law for the collec-
tion of other penalties No distilled spirits on
which the tax has been paid shall be stored or
allowed to remain on any distillery premises,
under the penalty of forfeiture of all spirits so
found. And all spirits, after being removed from
the original package in which they were inspec-
ted and gauged into other packages for purposes
of rectifcation redistillaton or change Of proof,
shall again be inspected and gauged and proper
ly branded and the absence of an Inspectors
brand shall be taken and held sufficient cause
or evidence upon which any spirits so found may
be forfeited. And any person who shall change
the character of any spirits, either by rectifca-
ton, mixing, or otherwise, after they have been
duly inspected and marked, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and place the same in other packages for
consumption sale without first stamping or
branding upon such package, in such manner as
the Commissioners of Internal Revenue may pre-
scribe, the word " Rectifed,' shall forfeit such
Spirits and the same may be seized by the col
lector or deputy collector of the district where
such spirits may be found, by such other col
lector or deputy collector as may be specially
authorized by the Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue for that purpose. And any person who
shall 80 brand any package containing spirits
knowing the taxes thereon have not been paid,
shall forfeit such spirits, and be deemed guilty
of a msdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be
imprisoned for not more than two years, at the
discretion of the court.
The above act went into effect on the lst day
of September, but sixty days from that date No
vember lst) will be allowed dealers to have Ii
bon tod IL I'd all
packages of liquors not so inspected and marked
after Nov. lst will be liable to seizure.
Another section Of the revised law prorides
that all receptaces in which any fermented IL
quors, such lager beer, ale, porter, &C., shall
be contained must be stamped on the spigot-hole
or tap with stamp denoting the amount of tax
on such package of fermented liquor, in such a
manner that when the liquor is withdrawn the
stamp will be destroyed. The attention of brew
ers is further called to the following section of
the new law, which went into effect October lst
Sec. l54-That every person who shall with
draw any fermented liquor from any hogshead,
barrel keg or other vessel upon which the prop
er stamp or stamps shall not have been affixed,
for the purpose of bottling the same, or who
shall carry on, attempt to carry on, the busi-
ness of bottling fermented liquor in any brewery
or place in which fermented liquor is made or
upon any premises having communication with
such brewery or any warehouse, shall be liable
to fine of five hundred dollars, and the property
used in such bottling or business shall be liable
to forfeiture.
The punishment for evasion of the require
ments of Sec. 2O6 of the revised law, which took
effect Oct. lst, is forfeiture and penalty. That
Section is an important one to merchants and
traders, and reads as follows:
PLAYING CARDs.-For and upon every pack,
not exceeding ffty-two cards in number, irres-
pectve of price value, five cents.
CANNED MEATS, &c.-For and upon every can,
bottle, or other single package, containing meats,
fish, shell-fsh, fruits vegetables sauces, sirups,
mustard jams jellies contained there
in and packed or sealed, made, prepared, and
sold or offered for sale, removed for consump-
ton in the United States, on and after the first
day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
when such can, bottle, or other single package,
with its contents, shall not exceed two pounds in
weight, the sum of one cent. When such can,
bottle or other single package, with its contents
shall exceed two pounds in weight, for every ad-
ditional pound or fractional part thereof, one
cent.
THE MARTYRS OF THE SoUTH.-The New York
Independent concludes fine article in the follow
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