The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-06-05
BOUNTY ON MAPLE SUGAR.
Summary of the Regulations--HOw PrOduc-
ers Must Proceed.

| Summary of the Regulations How Produc-
ers Must Proceed.
Producers of maple sugar should remember
that 1t Is necessary to tie their bonds and get
licences before July l, next, In order to Sc
cure the bounty on next years product. APP
pllcation for iceGse should be made to Depu
ty Collector c. S. Forbes. st. Adams, VT.
There Is no bounty on syrup, nor on sugar
testing less than so degrees OF pure sugar |;
above so and less than 80, one and 81 cents
per pound; above 80, two cents; no bounty
will be paid on any amount less than 800
pounds. A summary of the regulations fol.
low:
All producers OF sugar who intend to ap.
ply for the bounty on sugar produced during
the year from July 1, 1891, to July 1, 1892 .
In order to entite themselves thereto must,
after April 1, and prior to July /, 1891, file a
notice and make application for license.
This notice should be In duplicate, and be
filed with the collector Of internal revenue
Of the proper district, who will retain one
copy and forward the other to the commits.
sioner of internal revenue.
: Producers of sugar from maple sap IN Civ.
Ing their notice and making their application
for license will use form No. 2ss.
The blanks In these forms should be pro-
perly filed, and In case of any change In the
method of manufacture, location, or other
wise occurring subsequently to the date Of
the notice, a supplemental notice should be
Immediately given to the collector of the dis
trict or the deputy collector of the division.
The notice and application for license will
be required annually hereafter, prior to the
first day of July.
BONDS.
A bond must be executed by every person
or firm intending to manufacture and produce
sugar under the bounty provisions of said
act prior to July first of each year, on the
prescribed form (No. 27S), which must ac-
company the notice ana application for II.
cense The bond will be executed in accord
ance with the instructions printed on the
form.
individual surities must reside In the same
collection district with the principal, except
In cases where the collector Is otherwise
specially instructed.
The collector Is to be the Judge Of the suf-
ficiency of the surities. If a guarantee CON-
pany. authorized bv law to become surety on
bonds and undertakings, should be rendered
as one of the sureties on sugar producers
bona, the collector can accept the same II the
company Is within the jurisdiction of the
United States court of the district In which
the collectors Office Is located, or has resi-
dent agent there, duly authorized to accept
service. or upon whom service may be made
In case of suit, and has money or property
subject to execution or process sufficient In
amount to meet all probable demands upon it.
A copy of the charter and bylaws OF such
company, If accepted as surety, should be
filed IN the office of the commissioner.
The penal sum of the bond will be fixed by
the collector or internal revenue. and will be
equal to at least one-haf of the bounty on
the amount of sugar proposed to be produced
during the year, reckoned at two cents per
pound, but will not in any case be less than
5000.
If In any case the collector Is OF the opinion
that the location of the factory IL such as
would enable the producer to defraud the
government he will report the facts to the
of internal revenue in forward.
ing the bond, and In such cases approval will
be withheld until all required conditions are
A new bond will be required In case of the
death or insolvency Of the sureties, or In any
other contingency, at the discretion OF the
of internal revenue.
DrOENsE.
Upon receipt of the notice and application
for license and the bond. II the same upon eX-
animation are In due form and approved by
the commissioner, license will be issued
without charge through the collector of in
ternal revenue, which must be kept conspic-
uously displayed In the place or establish
ment where the sugar Is produced.
The licenses will be numbered consecutive
ly in each district, commencing with No. l,
and each factory will be designated by the
same number
There is no provision In the law for trans.
ferring license.
Operations must begin under the first II. |
,ense given under the law, with no m0lasses, |
syrup, or sugar on hand from the previous
season.
All sugar or material for making sugar |
from the previous season should De removed,
Or the manufacture thereof should be COM
pleted and the product removed from the fac.
.Ory before operations are commenced under
he liceuse.
The law provides that no bounty shall be
paid to any person engaged In refining sugars
which have been imported into the United
States or produced In the United States upon
which the bounty has already been paid or
applied for, nor TO any person unless he shall
nave hrst been licensed, and oniy upon sugar
produced by such person from sorghum,
)eets, or sugar-cane grown within the Unit.
I'd States, or from maple sap produced with.
n the United States.
If planter or farmer sells the cane which
ln has raised, or the syrup which he has pro-
iuced, at any period before the manufacture
" sugar Is completed, be viii have no right
o the bounty on the completed product
There Is no bounty on syrup which Is not
made into sugar.
Sugar. to be entitled to the bounty, must
re made from the cane or other raw mate
ials after July /, 1891. No wagon sugars
emaining over from the previous seasons
productions, or sugar In process OF manufac.
ure made from cane or syrup before July
1891, will be entitled to the bounty, al
hough the process is completed and the
ugar made after July |.
1t will be necessary under the law to
LASTLY the sugar for payment or the bounty |
ccerding to the pOlariscopic test a
The blanks for application for license call b
DR. answers to the following: Description of t
Machinery and kind of evaporators; number b
nd kind of kettles and open pans and capac'
y of each, In gallons; methods 10 be en- 3
loyed, manner of boiling, whether by Q
cam or furnace heat; number of maple d
'ees to be tapped; location OF trees. eleva-
on and INCLINATION OF ground and kind of .
III, whether warm or cold sugar place; !,
lumber OF pounds Of sugar proposed to be !,
reduced during the year; statement OF the u
tai quantity Of sugar annually made for
le last two sugar seasons.