Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-11
THE SUGAR BOUNTY.
synopsis of the Regulations Defining
Its Collection.

I -
lations defining the duties of collectors
Of internal revenue TO sugar producers,
and of sugar weighers, chemists and
sugar producers under the sugar boun.
ty law -
Duties of Internal Revenue Collectors
First-Collectors will inform maple
sugar producers that sugar containing
80 per cent or more of real sugar is ell
igible to bounty.
Second-They VIII, upon request,
furnish blank forms TO sugar producers
and instruct them IN the steps neces-
sary to be taken for obtaining bounty.
Third-They will subdivide their
districts to meet the requirements ofap-
plicants for bounty, and station a sug-
ar weigher at some convenient point in
each subdivision.
Fourth-They will provide weiehers
with blank returns, triers or sampling
instruments, sample boxes, stencil
plates, blank books and, when necessa-
ry, with scales.
Fifth-They VII examine produc-
ers' applications and daily records,
weighers' returns and chemists classiti-
cations, find the amount due the pro-
ducer, and, when received, transmit
checks in payment of bounty to the
producers entitled thereto.
Duties OF weighers.
First-Weighers will see that IL
censed applicants for bounty make re-
turns at the beginning of the sugar sea-
son Of all sugar and syrup on hand.
Second-They will, during the sug-
ar season, weigh at their stations all
sugar presented to them in packages of
ten pounds or more, by licensed appli-
cants, and mark each package weighed
with the weigher's name, gross weight,
tare and net weight, entering the weights
in book, No. "A, provided for the pur-
pose.
Third-They will, at the close ofthe
sugar season, beginning on the date
designated by the collector, visit each
factory in their respective subdivisions,
aud weigh, mark and record in like
manner all the sugar left on hand.
Fourth-Thev wi II make as many
subdivisions of the different lots pre-
seuted for weighing as there are differ
ent kinds of grades IN the lot, and draw
one sample of three ounces from each
subdivision, the sample to be so drawn
as to fairly represent the lot subdivision
from which it is taken.
Fifh-The samples viii be put in
the boxes provided, covered immedi-
ately and the blank label on the box
filed out.
Sixth-A certificate viii be filed out
in duplicate for each lot subdivision,
with the data contained on the box la
bel, one copy of which will be imme-
diately sent, in the envelope with the
box, by mail, TO the collector, and the
other retained until the close of the
sugar season and forwarded with the
sugar producers record to the collect
or.
Seventh-They will receive the pro-
ducer's record on his premises, at the
close of the season, take acknowledge |
ment of the affidavit thereon aud see
that it is in due form.
Eight-They will receive no fee for
taking such acknowledgment or admin
istering oaths.
Ninth-They will take care that no
fraudulent claims are presented against
the government.
Chemists or Inspectors Duties.
First-Chemists will examine and
classify The samples of sugar received
fiom the weigher and fill the blank
form provided.
Second-Theyw make polariscope
tests Of samples only when there is a
doubt in regard to the class
to which they belong.
Sugar Producers Duties.
First-Bounty will be paid only to
those licensed applicants producing 800
pounds or more, testing at least 80 per
cent OF pure sugar.
Second-Sugar producers will make
application for bounty, in duplicate, on
blank form No. 2SS, furnished on re-
quest BY the revenue officers.
Third-They will keep on form No.
22l, in duplicate, simple daily record
of trees tapped and sugar produced.
The form should be filed out, sworn to
before the weigher and handed to him
when he visits the producers premises
at the close Of the season.
Fourth-The application must be in
the hands of the officers before the first
day of July. 1t will not do TO mail it
on the 30th of June, expecting it to be
Fiffh-They must put all sugar up
Do which bounty is claimed in pack
ages of 10 pounds each or more.