Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-07-08
information f0r EsssstEEera OF
Brandy.

The regulations concerning the manufac-
ture of brandy have been materially chang
ed since last year. The bond required is
not SO large az before, being proporhoned to
the producing power of the distillery. The
distiller is also relieved from the per diem
tax and several other requirements. The
following is synopsis of the more i'npor-
tant Of the present regulations
Every Still in the possession of any per
son must be registered either as being for
use or not for use Omission to register in
ours a penalty of five hundred dollars.
Notice Cd form 81 must be given before
commencing. The form can be obtained Of
the Assistant Assessor. After this notice
is given the stills to be used will be survey
ed After the survey the distiler must give
bond in amount not less than double the
amount Of the tax on the spirits that can be
distilled in his distillery in thirty days, but
in no case to be less than five hundred dol
lars. This bond will expire on the last
day of April, 1871. Heretofore tie amount
of the bond was five thousand dollars.
The special tax is the same as before, fifty
dollars per year for persons producing less
than one hundred and fifty barrels. The
tax year begins with the first of May and IS
estimated for the unexpired part of the year.
Thus person commencing in September,
when eight months of the special tax year
are to succeed. will pay eight twclfths of the
whole tag, or 1913, SO. A distiller paying
fifty dollars special tax, has one hundred
barrels exempt from barrel tax. One dis
filling but six months and paying but TWEEN
ty-fve dollars special tax would have but
fifty barrels exempt, and in the same pro-
portion for other amounts. The distiller
must pay barrel tag CT four dollars on eve
nv barrel in excess Of the number exempt.
4 barrel is considered to be forty proof gal
Ions, whether in one package or more.
E very distiller must provide himself with
and keep the book prescribed, and this book
must be kept open to the inspection of any
revenue officer and preserved at least two
years.
All the foregoing requirements must be
complied Eith before the bond of the distil-
Ter can be approved, apa any distiller com
mencing work before he is notified that his
bond is approved is subject to all the liab:l;
tics of an Illicit distiller.
The distiller may designate any suitable
place other than his distilery if he chooses,
where he desires 20 keep his brandy before
it is guaged and stamped. TIE penalty for
removing it from that place is severe.
On or before the Oath of each month the
distiller shall notify the collector, on pre-.
scribed form, Of the probable number Of
| packages and gallons q brandy produced,
in the month 1t will then be gpaged. IS
soon as guag. d. and on or before the tenth
Of the month, the distillss shall make re-
turn to the Assistant Assessor Of his opera
tons the previous month,
On the receipt, by the distlller, of the
taxpaid stamps, he must afix them to the
Barrel on which they belong himself. Brandy
retained by the distilicr for his own use
1 must be stamped the same as if for sale
I Distillcrs may sell packages as originally
gagged and stamped, when the ga le is made
/ from the slacc of manufacture, without any
liability to an additional tax /; but if pack
ages are changed in any way, liability to
additional tax accrues.
No assessment of the per diem tax of two
/ dollars pcr day will hereafter be made
against brandy aiatlllers' nor Will they be
required to give NOTICE Of commencement
and suspension of work.
Jetcr Phillips, the hard to-die man. who
has been imprisoned in The Richmond Jail
for some two or three years under sentence
of death for the murder Of bis wife, and WHO
has been rcspited some dozen timee, has
again been respited until the 22nd inst. lie
has seen his scafod being built ST yeral
times. 1t is said that this will be his last
respite, as there is no longer any reason for
Executive clcmency.