, 1890-10-11

July | Of each wear, with the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue a notice of the place of
production, with a general description of the
machinery and methods to be employed by
him, with an estimate of the amount of sugar
proposed to be produced in tile current or
next ensuing year, including the number Of
maple trees to be tapped, and an application
for a license to so produce, to be accompanied
by a bond in a penalty, ana with ~sureties to
be approved by the Commissioner of Internal
R9venuH, conditioned that he will faithfully
observe all rules and regulations that shall be
prescribed for such manufacture AM ptoluc-
ton of sugar.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
upon receiving the application and bond here
inbefore provided for, shall issue to the ap-
plicant a license to produce sugar from sor-
ghum, beetS, or sugar cane grown within the
United States, or from maple sap produced
within the United States, at the place and
with the machinery and by the methods des-
cribed in the application; but said license
shall not extend beyond one year from the
date thereof.
No bounty shall be paid to any person en-
gagged in refining sugars which have been
imported into the United States, or produced
in the United States upon Which the bounty
herein provided for has already been paid {
applied for, nor to any person unless he shall
have first been licensed as herein provided,
and only upon sugar produced by such person
from sorghum, beets or sugar cane grown
within the United States, or from maple sap
produced within the United States. The
Commissioners of Internal Revenue, with the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury
shall from time to time make all n9edful
wu1oo ool ,o1r1o+;one Gov. tba r,1pl1fa at1ra
OF sugar from sorghum, beets or sugar cane
grown within the United States, or from ma.
pie sap produced within the United SGateS,
and shall under the direction Of the Sacre-
tary of the Treasury, exercise supervision anu
inspection of the manufacture thereof.
And for the pawn mt OF these bounties the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorised to
draw warrants on the Treasurer ofthe United
States for such sums as shall be necessary,
which sums shall be certified to him by tn
Commissioned of Internal Revenue, by whom
the bounties shall be disours91, au1 no
bounty shall be allowed or paid to any person
licensed as aforesaid in any one year upon
any Quantity Of sugar less than five hundred
pounds.
That any person who shall knowingly re-
fine or all in tho ref ing of sugar imported
into the United States upon which tho boun-
ty herein provided for has already been paid
or applied for, at the place described IN tbs
license issued by the Com n.s5iol9 of 1nrer-
nal Revenue, and any person not en- tied to
the bounty herein provided for who shall ap-
ply for or receive the same, shall be guilty OF
a misdemeGnor, and upon conviction thereof
shall pay a fine not exceeding $5 900, or
be imprisoned for a period not exceeding
FIVE years, or both, in the discretion Of thu
court.
All sugars above No. Ii Dutch standard
in color shall be classified by the DItch
standard of color AMI shall pay DUTY as fol-
lows, namely =
All sugars above No. Is Dutch standard
in color shall pay one-tenth Of one cent per
pound in addition to the rate herein provided
for, when exported from, or the product Of
any country when and so long as such coun-
try pays, or shall hereafter pay, directly or.
indirectly, a bounty on the expectation of
any such sugar which may be included
in this grade, which is greater than is
paid on raw sugars Of q lower saccha
rine strength; and the Secretary Of the
Treasury shall prescribe suitable rules
and regulations to carry this provision into
effect and provided further, that all mashi-
merry purchased abroad and erected in a beet
sugar factory and used in the production of
raw sugar in the United States from beets
produced therein shall be admitted duty free
until the 1st day of July, 1892. Prov i1ed,
that any duty collected on any of the above
described machinery purchased abroad and
imported into the United States for the uses
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