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 six·1·Y-F11·*T11 ooivensss. Sess. III. os. 18. 1919. 1109 The Commissioner, with the approval of the Secreta is author- "X °” ”“E”*°”· ized to discontinue the use of thepfollowing stamps whréyiiever in his Smmpsdis°°mm¤°d` judgment the interests of the Government will be subserved thereby: Distillery warehouse, special bonded Warehouse, special bonded D<>Sis¤¤¤»d· rewarehouse, general bon ed Warehouse, general bonded retransfer, transfer brandy, export tobacco, export cigars, export oleomargarine, and export fermented-liquor stamps. M t ta ks t Sec. 607. That the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secre- ¢¤‘i»$ :Sr€asuSi1¤d. ° °" tary, is hereby authorized to require at distilleries, breweries, rectif - ing houses, and wherever else 111 his 'udgment such action may lie deemed advisable, the installation of] meters, tanks, pipes, or an other apparatus for the p se of protecting the revenue, and such E,,,.,,,,,,_ meters, tanks, and pipes and all necessary labor incident thereto shall be at the expense of the person on whose premises the installation is required. Any such person refusingkor neglecting to install such n0l;'g;*;1¤¤;m*;'c*;_¤°d *0* apparatus when so required by the mmissioner shall not be per- P mitted to conduct business on such premises. _ Sec. 608. That there shall be levied and collected on all beer, lager ·i~`§§‘{,$‘$,,{§?“°'“‘ beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liquor, containing one- ,,5f*m§éng°0g 3*”°» P· half of one per centum, or more, of alcohol, brewed or manufactured im, p.31l. and hereafter sold, or removed for consumption or sale, within the United States, by whatever name such liquors may be called, in lieu of the internal-revenue taxes now imposed thereon by law, a tax of $6.00 for every barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional plarts of a barrel authorized and deined by law, to be collected under e pro- °°“°”“°”- visions of existing law. Rm { New Sec. 609. That from and after the rpassage of this Act taxable fer- mu, a§’Y{;.,'§‘..¥'§,; dbi mented liquors mai be conveyed wi out payment of tax from the ‘“'¤"°°'****°°*'·‘* brewery premises w ere produced to a contiguous industrial distillery of either class established under the Act entitled "An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for Um other purposes," approved October 3, 1913, to be used as distilling material, and the residue from such distillation, containingbless than one·half of 1 per centum of alcohol by volume, which is to e used in making beverages, mary be manipulated by cooling, flavoring, carbonating, settling, an filtering on the distillery premises or elsewhere. The removal of the taxable fermented licglior from the brewe to m.dR°§`"°°°°’ *° b° the distillery and the operation of the dist ery and removal olfythe residue therefrom shall be under the supervision of such officer or ofiicers as the Commissioner shall deem proper, and the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, is hereby authorized to make such revulations from time to time as may be necessary to give force and efflect to this section and to safeguard the revenue. Natural wm. Srzc. 610. That natural wine within the meaning of this Act shall ${,‘jf*gQ*,§l°§*,,_’;f’d· be deemed to be the product made from the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound, ripe grapes, without addition or abstraction, except such as ma occur in the usual cellar treatment P,,,,.,_,,,_,_ · of clarifying and aginvz Pmmkllzd, however, That the product made “»_*i<;¤i¤i¤¤ ¤f,,;;*¤r from the 'uice of sound, ripe grapes by complete fermentation of the www ’ must undler proper cellar treatment and corrected by the addition (under the supervision of a gauger or storekeeper-gauger in the capacity of gauger) of a solution of water and pure cane, beet, or dextrose sugar (conta', respectively, not less than 95 per centum of actual sugar, calculated on a dry basis) to the must or to the wine, to correct natural deficiencies, when such addition shall not increase n•S1g¤S¢1¤¤S Sithe volume of the resultant product more than 35 per centum, and ‘°"°d~ the resultant product does not contain less than five parts per thousand of acid efore fermentation and not more than 13 per centum