Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-11
THE BOUNTY ON SUGAR.

The Internal Revenue Department
has issued a circular pamphlet, giving
the sugar bounty law and rules and
regulations which the producer of su-
gar will conform to in case he applies
for the sugar bounty:
THE LAW.
The law provides, Section 231, ''That
on and after July first, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-One, and until July
first, nineteen hundred and five, there
shall be paid, from any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
under the provisions Of section three
thousand six hundred and eighty nine
of the revised statutes, to the produc-
er of sugar testing not less than nine
ty degrees by the pOlariscope, from
beets, sorghum or sugar cane grown
within the United States, or from ma
pie sap produced within the United
States, a bounty of two cents per
pound; and upon such sugar testing
less than ninety degrees by the polari-
scope, and not less than eighty de-
grees, a bounty of one and three
fourths cents per pound, under such
rules and regulations as the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, with the
approval of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, shall prescribe.
Section 232, F"The producer of said
sugar to be entitled to said bounty
shall have first filed prior to July first
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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 the cur
rent or next ensuing year, including
the number of maple trees to be tap
ped, and an application for license
to so produce, to be accompanied by
a bond in a penalty, and with sureties
to be approved by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, conditioned that
he will faithfully observe all rules and
regulations that shall be prescribed
for such manufacture and production
of sugar.
Section 233, ''The Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, upon receiving the
application and bond hereinbefore pro-
vided for, shall issue the applicant a
license to produce sugar from
sorghum, beets, or sugar-cane grown
within the United States, or from ma
pie sap produced within the United
States at the place and with the ma
chinery and by the methods described
in the application; but said license
shall not extend beyond one year from
the date thereof
WHEN THE ACT TAKES EFFECT.
The act states that the provisions
thereof providing terms for the pay
ment of the bounty shall take effect
on the first day of April, 1891.
By this expression it is understood
that April first is the date fixed when
applications for licenses may be made
and the notices and bonds filed, and
the law becomes operative so far as
authorizing the issuing of licenses by
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ties should be paid on sugar produced
prior to July 1, 1891.
| The words "current or next ensuing
year, in paragraph 232 are under
stood to mean the fiscal year, or the
bounty year, commencing July 1.
NOTICE AND APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.
All producers of sugar who intend
to apply for the bounty on sugar pro
1891, to July 1, 1892, in order to entitle
themselves thereto must, after April
and prior to July /, 1891, file notice
and make application for a license.
This notice should be in duplicate,
and be filed with the Collector of In
ternal Revenue.
The application for license will be
on the same form as the notice.
| Producers of sugar from maple sap
in giving their notice and making their
application for license will use form
No. 298.
The blanks in these forms should be
properly filed, and in case of any
change in the method of manufacture,
! location, or otherwise occurring subse-
quently to the date of the notice, a
supplemental notice should be imme
diately given to the Collector of the
district or the deputy collector of the
division.
The notice and the application for
| license will be required annually here
after, prior to the first day of July.
BONDS.
A bond must executed by every
person or firm intending to manufac-
ture and produce sugar under the
bounty provisions of said act prior to
July first of each year, on the pres
cribed form (No. 278,) which must ac-
company the notice and application
for a license. The bond will be ex
ecuted in accordance with the instruc
| tions printed on the form.
These bonds, after the sufficiency of
| the sureties has been certified by the
collector of the district, must be trans
mitted to the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue for approval. The affi
davits of the sureties on Form 33 will
be filed with the bonds.
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