The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1907-01-24
THE ALCOHOL BILL.
Congressman Marshall viii Make Alcohol
Bill Good by Amendment.

Congressman Marshall Will Make Alcohol
Bill Good by Amendment.
To amend an "Act entitled for the
withdrawal from bond, tax free, of
domestic alcohol when rendered unfit
for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by
mixture with suitable denaturing mate
rials," approved June seventh, nineteen
hundred six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
HOUSE of Representatives Of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled: That notwithstanding any
thing contained, in the act entitled can
act for the withdrawal from bond, tax
free, of domestic alcohol when rendered
unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal
uses by mixture with suitable denat-
urihg Materials" approved June
seventh, nineteen hundred and six,
domestic alcohol, when suitably denat-
ured, may be withdrawn from bond
without the payment of internal-rev-
enue tax and used in the manufacture
of ether and chloroform and other def
mite chemical substances where said
alcohol is changed into some other chem
ical substance and does not appear in
the finished product.
That in lieu of denaturing bonded
warehouses the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury, may permit
in connection with distilleries manufac-
turing only alcohol to be denatured,
the use of distillery cisterns or tanks,
Of such size as he may deem expedient,
designed to be locked and sealed by an
authorized government officer; and he
may prescribe the time which alcohol
may remain in such locked and sealed
cisterns or tanks, and the manner and
process of denaturing on the distillery
premises the alcohol contained in such
tanks, or the manner of transportation
of such alcohol from said cisterns or
tanks, to some denaturing bonded ware
house, there to be denatured.
That denaturing bonded warehouses
may be designated and set apart for
denaturing purposes under conditions
prescribed by the commissioner of
internal revenue, with the approval Of
the secretary of the treasury, upon
the application Of any registered distil-
Ter, any manufacturer licensed to use
denatured alcohol, any licensed whole
sale dealer in denatured alcohol, or any
other person, in the discretion of the
commissioner of Internal revenue.
That the commissioner of internal
revenue, with the approval of the Sec
retary Of treasury, m y prescribe reg
ulation fixing the kind and capacity of
the packages, including tank car and
other methods of transportation, for de-
natured alcohol withdrawn for consump-
tion without payment of internalrev-
enue tax under the provisions of said
Act approved June seventh, nineteen
and six, and also for the transfer in
bond of domestic alcohol direct from
distillery cisterns or locked tanks to
authorized denaturing bonded ware
houses.
That the commissioner of internal
revenue, with the approval of the sec
retary of the treasury, may prescribe
regulations authorizing the conveyance
of alcohol through suitable pipes, de-
signed to be locked and sealed by an
authorized government officer, from
distillery cisterns to closed iron, steel,
or other metal tanks of suitable capa-
city situated in distillery bonded ware
houses, and from such tanks to mixing
tanks in denaturing bonded warehouses,
or direct from locked and sealed cisterns
or tanks used in lieu of bonded ware
houses.