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 .336 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 125. 1879. forfeiture of the vinegar, iluid, or material containing such proof spirits, and shall subject the person or persons guilty of removing the same to R. S. 3276. the punishment provided for any violation of this section. And all the R- S- 3277- provisions of sections thirty-two hundred and seventy-six, thirty-two R· S· 3Q7S' hundred and seventy-seven, and thirty-two hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby extended and made applicable to all premises whereon vinegar is manufactured, to all manufacturers of vinegar and their workmen or other persons employed by them." Exemptions of The Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Sec- ‘¤m¤·U diS*m°¥“i<*¤· retary of the Treasury, may exempt distiilers whose distilleries have a daily spirit-producing capacity of thirty gallons of proof spirits, or less, from such of the provisions of existing law in regard to grain distilleries which require the processes of distillation to be carried on through. continuous closed vessels and pipes, or which require the cisterns to be connected with the outlet of the worm or condenser by suitable pipes or other apparatus or which require certain clear spaces about the cistems and other vessels of the distillery, or which require the distillers to have or finnish a plan of the distillery, as he may deem proper. R. S. 3287, Amend section thirty-two hundred and ei ghty-seven (Revised Statutes Amended- of the United States) by striking out all after said ninnber, and substituting therefor the following: Distiusd spirits. “All distilled spirits shall be drawn from the receiving-cisterns into easks, each of not less capacity than twenty gallons wine measure, and Marking. shall thereupon be gauged, proved, and marked by an internal-revenue gauger, by cutting on the cask containing such spirits, in a mamier to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the quantity in wine-gallons and in proof gallons of the contents of such easks, and by branding or burning into the head of such cask in letters of not less than one inch in length; and such brand shall distinctly indicate the particular name of such distilled spirits as known to the trade, i. e., high! wines, alcohol, or spirits, as the ease may be, and shall be immediately removed into the distillery warehouse, and the gauger shall, in the presence of the storekeeper of the warehouse, place upon the head of the Stamping. cask an engraved stamp, which shall be signed by the collector of the district and the storekeeper and gauger; and shall have written thereon the number of proof-gallons contained therein, the name of the distiller, the date of the receipt in the warehouse and the serial number of each cask, in progressive order, as the same are received from the distillery. Such serial number for every distillery shall be in regular sequence of the serial number thereof, beginning with number one (N0. 1) with the first cask deposited therein after July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and no two or more easks warehoused at the same distillery shall be marked with the same number. The said stamp shall be as follows: Form of stamp. “Distillery-warehouse stamp No. -. Issued by -—-—-, collector, — ——— district State of —-———, distillery warehouse of -——- ——-, 18-. Cask Nye. —; contents —- gallons proof spirits. " muted States Storekéeper. “Attest: " United States Ga.ziger.” R. S. 3293, That section thirty-two hundred and ninety-three as amended by joint 52:2; *3;, 16» resolution approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy- A_m8;,dc({_ eight be amended by inserting, after the words “State of —--" in the eleventh line, the words "during the month ending"; by striking out the words "and proof gallons" in the fifteenth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "proof gallons and taxable gallons"; by inserting, after the word "shall" and before the word “give" in the eighteenth line, the words “ at the time of making said entry"; by striking out the