Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-31
A Warming to Tobaeee DeaIers.

A correspondent telegraphs the New
| York Journal of Commerce from Wash
ington under date Of July ~, thas by the
act Of June 9, 1872, the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue is directed to prescribe
| canceling stamps for tobacco, snuff and ci-
| gars, and to furnish them free OF charge to
| persons Using the stamp to be cancelled.
The commissioner was directed to prepare
| regulations for their use, and be prescribed
and had prepared steel die for use in can
ceiling Stamps on wooden or part wooden
packages containing tobacco. Iii adyisa-
bic Just at this time that the regulations on
this point be read with care by those inter.
| ested, as after the 1,t day of August all to-
bacco not so stamped and cancelled viii be
siezed by the Government. The Depart
ment officials did not issue any special cir
cular about it, as they should have done,
but trusted TO early dissemination of the
regulations, which were too long for any
newspaper TO print in full. But they or
dered 900 dies for loaning by collectors,
and although there are only four days of
the month left, less than ten collectors have
applied for the dies. The regulations COW
eriDg this point read as follows: ID
These dies will be furnished to the seve-
raj Collectors Of Internal Revenue, and viii
be loaned by them to manufacturers of to-
bacco upon application therefor. -
Collectors will keep an account of all
dies intrusted to them, and record of the
names Of all persons to whom they are fur
nished furnishing them only to legally au-
thoriZed manufacturers), and the date of
their delivery. Whenever any die shall
have become broken or damaged In the
hands of any manufacturer, so as to be I'M
fit for use, or whenever any person receiving
such Government die shall have no longer
any legitimate use for the same, it must be
returned to the collector and the person &C
credited therefor.
As soon as sufficient time mas elapsed for
supplying manufacturers with this die,
lrtich ecilI not be longer than until the first
of august pr01anO, it is hereby made i'm
perative upon every manufacturer of tehac-
CO putting up his tobacco in packages as
heretofore described to use this die, and no
stamps on such packages will BE- regarded
as properly cancelled, and the packages will
be liable to seizure whenever found, unless
the stamps are Cancelled with Govern
ment die, and in the manner hereinafter
named, tO-wit: The stamp must be so can
celed that a portion OF every stamp shall be
drioea into and lodged toithin the Dood of
the package. @ I
In effecting such cancellation, the die viii
be required to be applied twice to every
stamp upon the package, once in the place
on the stamp marked Preserved for cancel
latiOD," and a second time over and upon
the vignette of the stamp.
The importance to be attached to pro-
per cancellation of all stamps has already
been shewn by the Sc ere fines and penal
ties imposed upon any person who shall re-
move from any mandatory, or place where
tobacco, snuff, or cigars are made, any such
goods without stamps affixed and properly
cancelled, and also the fines and penalties
imposed upon any person who shall sell, or
offer for sale, or have in his possession any
tobacco, snuff, or cigars the stamps upon
which are not property cancelled. The law
demands a proper cancellation, and saws
the commissioner shall prescribe the mode.
When, therefore, the commissioner has
prescribed such mode, it has all the force
and authority of law, and no person is at
liberty to disregard such prescribed mode,
or substitute some other therefor. The in
terest Of the Government, and the safety
ana protection of all who deal in tobacco,
snuff, or cigars, require that manufacturers
should properly atfix ant cancel all stamps.
And local revenue officers of every grade
will see to it that these regulations, in this
respect particularly, shall be enforced, as
heretofore gross and palpable neglect to
properly cancel stamps has prevailed
throughout the country.