The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-02-08
Important 90 LIqasr and Tobacco
Dealers.
LIQUOR rAcKAoEs-sEc. 1924.

1mportant 20 Ltquor and Tobacco
LIQUOR PAcKAGEs-sEc. 1924.
Every person who empties, or draws
of, or causes to be emptied or drawn OFF,
any distilled spirits from cssk or
package, bearing any mark, brand, or
stamp required by law, shall, at the
time OF femptying such cask or package,
efface and obliterate said mark, stamp,
or brand. Every such cask or package
from which said mark, stamp or brand
is not effaced and obliterated, as here
in required, shall be forfeited TO the
United States, and may be seized by
any officer of internal revenue wherever
found. And every railroad company
or other transportation company, or
person who receives or transports, or
has in possession with intent to
transport, or with intent to cause
or procure 10 be transported, any such
empty cask OF package, or any part
thereof, having thereon any brand,
mark, or stamp, required by law to
be placed on any cask or package
containing distilled spirits, shall for
felt three hundred dollars for each such
cask or package, or any part thereof. so
received or transported, or had in pos
session with the intent aforesaid; and
every boat, railroad car, cart, dray, wag-
on, or other vehicle, and all horses and
other animals used in carrying or trans
porting the same, shall be forfeited to
the United States. Every person who
fails to efface and obliterate said mark,
stamp or brand, at the time OF emptying
such cask or package, or who receives
any such cask or package, or any part
thereof, with the intent aforesaid, or
who transports the same, or knowingly
aids or assists therein, or who removes
any stamp provided by law from any
cask or package containing-or which
had contained. distilled spirits, with
out defacing and destroying the same st
the time OF such removal, or who aids
or assists therein, or who has in his
possession any such stamp so removed
as aforesaid, or has in his possession
any cancelled stamp, or any stamp
which has been used, or which pur-
ports to have been used, upon any cask
or package OF distilled spirits, shall be
deemed guilty OF q felony, and shall be
fined not less than five hundred dollars
nor more than ten thousand dollars,
and imprisoned not less than one year
ner more than five years.
SEC. 3325.-Wheneve any person
knowingly purchases or sells, with in
spection- marks thereon, any cask or
package, after the same has been used
FOR distilled spirits, he shall forfeit and
pay the sum Of two hundred dollars
Tor every such cask so purchased or
sold.
TOBACCO PAcKAGEs-sEc. 1876.
Whenever any stamped box, bag.
vessel, wrapper, or envelope OF any
kind. containing tobacco or snuff, is
emptied, the stamp or stamps thereon
shall be destroyed by the person in
whose hands the same may be. And
every person who wilfully neglects or
refuses so to do shall, for each such
offense, be fined fifty dollars, and i'm
prisoned not less than ten days nor
more than six months. And every per-
son who sells or gives away, or who
buys or accepts from another any such
empty stamped box, bag, vessel, wrap
per, or envelope of any kind, or the
stamp or stamps taken from any such
empty box, bag. vessel, wrapper, or en-
velope OF any kind, shall, for each such
offense, be fined one hundred dollars
and imprisoned for not less than TWEEN
ty days and not moro than one year. =
And every manufacturer or other per-
son who puts tobacco or snuff into any
such box, bag, vessel, wrapper or enve'
lope, the same having been either emp
tied or partially emptisd, or who has
in his possession, or affixes TO any bo,
or other package, any stamp which
has been previously used. or who sells
or offers for sale any box or other pack
age of tobacco, snuff, or cigars, having
affixed thereto, any fraudulent, spuri
Gus. imitation, or counterfeit stamp, ol
stamp that has been previously used
or sells from any such frsudulen
stamped box or package, or has in hi
possession any box or package as afore
said. knowing the same TO be fraudu
! lentiy stamped, shall, for each suct
! offense, be fined not less than ono hun
dred dollars nor more than five hun
dred dollars, and imprisoned for no
less than one year nor more than thre'
years. -
CIGAR PAcKAoRs-sEc. 3iO6.
Whenever any stamped box contain
ing cigars, cheroots, or cigarettes, 1
' emptied, il shall be the duty OF tn
! person in whose hands the same is 4
/ destroy utterly the stamps thereon.
. And any person who wilfully neglect
! or refuses so 10 do shall, for each sucl
I offsnse, be fined not exceeding tift
. dollars and imprisoned not less thai
r ten days nor more than six months
/ And any person who fraudulently give
( away or accepts from another, or VIII
: sells. buys, or uses for packing cigars
|. cheroots, OF cigarettes, any such stamF
ed box, shall Tor each such offense b
|. fined not exceeding one hundred dollar
q and be imprisoned not more than on
q year. Any revenue officer may destro
q any emptied cigar box upon which
a cigar stamp is found.
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