The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
The Maple Sugar Bounty.
MANY MATTERS OF INTEREST TO VERMONT
FARMERS.

The sugar season is rapidly approaching.
Unusual interest is manifested in this years
production, as it Is the first under the law
giving bounty on sugar of specified stand
ard of excellence. Throughout the United
States some four thousand sugar makers
complied with the legal requirements to
draw the bounty. OF this number more
than one-half (some 5000 were in Vermont,
and probably this number does not COM
prise half the sugar-makers of the state.
So the Vermont farmer feels lively and
genuine interest in all matters relating to
the bounty. AS a matter of curiosity, we
will state here that New Hampshire and
New York furnish about 140 applicants each
Ohio and Pennsylvania 200 each, and West
Virginia IS.
Timely and important information will be
found in the following brief synopsis OF the
regulations issued by the commissioner Of
internal revenue in regard to the require
ments OF maple sugar producers and OF rev.
enue officers under the law relative to
bounty. First, as to
DUTIES OF COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL
REVENUE.
Q) Collectors will inform maple sugar
producers of the law relative to bounty on
sugar.
(2) They will, upon request, furnish blank
| forms to sugar producers, and instruct them
| in the steps necessary to be taken for OBJ
tanning bounty.
| (3) They will sub.divide their districts to
meet the requirements OF applicants for
bounty when necessary, and station
| weigher at some convenient point in each
| subdivision.
| (4) They will provide weghers with blank
returns, triers or other sampling instru-
ments, sample boxes, stencil-pates, blank
! books, and when necessary, with scales.
| (5) They will examine the producers APP
plications and records, weighers' and in
! spectors' returns, find the amount of bounty
| ha nrn ffN hn tnf la
commissioner of internal revenue, and,
| when drafts are received from the commits
sioner in payment, transmit the same to the
| producer, if he is not indebted to the United
States.
DUTIES OF DEPUTY COLLECTORS ACTING
AS wEIGHERs.
% Deputy collectors acting as weighers
will require licensed producers to make re-
turn at the beginning of the sugar season OF
all sugar and syrup on hand.
(2) They will, during the sugar season,
weigh at designated stations all sugar pre-
sented to them in packages of ten pounds
or more by licensed applicants, and mark
each package weighed with the weigher's
name and the net weight, entering the gross
| weight, tare and net weights in book No
"a, provided for the purpose.
(3) They will, at the close of the season,
under the instructions from the collector,
visit, il necessary, the factories in their re-
spective subdivisions and weigh the sugar
produced during the season which is left on
hand
(4) They will make as many subdivisions
of the different lots presented for weighing
as there are different kinds or grades in the
lot fill one sample box from each lot or sub
division, the sample to be so drawn as to
fairly represent the lot or sub division from
which it is taken.
() The samples will be put in boxes pro-
vided for the purpose, covered Immediately
and the blank label on the box filled out.
(6) A certificate will be filled out, in
duplicate, for each lot or subdivision, with
the data contained on the box label, one
copy of which will be Immediately sent, in
the envelope with the box, to the collector,
and the other retained until the close of the
sugar season and forwarded with the
sugar producers record to the collector.
"a If they receive the producers record
at the close of the season and take acknowl-
edgment of the affidavit thereon, they will
see that it is in due form.
(8) They will receive no fee for taking
such acknowledgment or administering
oaths.
(O They will take care that no fraudulent
claims are presented against the govern
ment.
DUTIES OF INSPECTORS OR EXPERTS.
% Inspectors or experts will examine and
classify the samples of sugar received from
the weighers and make returns as provided.
(2) They will make polariscope tests of
samples when necessary. III there is rea-
sonable doubt in regard TO the class to
which samples belong, polariscopic tests
will be made
DUTIES OF sUGAR-PRoDUCERs.
ID Only licensed applicants who produce
800 pounds or more of sugar testing at least
eighty degrees by the polariscope will be
entitled to bounty.
(2) Sugar-producers will make application
for bounty, in duplicate, on the same form
upon which they keep their daily record
form No, 32l,
(3) They will keep on form No. 32l, in du.
plicate, daily record of trees tapped and
sugar produced. The form should be filled
out, sworn to before person authorized to
administer oaths and transmitted to the
collector at the close of the season.
4) The application for license for the
next ensuing year must be in the hands OF
the collector before the LIST day of July. II
will not do to mail it on the 30th day OF
June, expecting it to be received.
(5) They must put all sugar upon which
bounty is claimed in packages of ten pounds
or more.
90 They must number packages serially
beginning with No. l.
"a They must leave covers of packages
unfastened until samples have been drawn
(8) They must mark each package with
the producers name.
(O They must mark each package, before
it is rilled, with its weight, TO be deducted
as tare.
Q0) They must not claim bounty on sugar
made from trees other than those included
in the application for license on form No
28S, or a supplemental notice.
QD They must not claim bounty on adul
terated sugar, or sugar made elsewhere than
at the location for which license has been
issued.
40 They must not claim bounty on sugar
, made prior TO July /, 1891 or upon sugar
made after July from syrup made before
J that date.
PENALTIES.
Any person not entitled to the bounty
who shall apply for or receive the same, be
comes guilty OF misdemeanor and liable Il
) a fine not exceeding four thousand dollars
or Imprisonment not exceeding five years
or both.
REMARKS
: The mode of operation under the bounty
law is indicated with sufficient detail ant
l clearness by the above synopsis. DIR. H. III
Mcintyre of West Randolph is the deput,
in charge of the sugar bounty for the dis
;, trict of New England. After March 10 hi
! office will be at Montpelier in the new
Z federal building. The details of arrange
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