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 74 TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 740. AU GUST 27, 1935 . "Spirits of less proof than one hundred and sixty degrees may, unde r regulati ons, be de emed to b e alcohol for the p urpose of denaturation, under the provisions of this title . "Alcohol may be withdrawn, under regulations, from any indus- trial plant or bonded warehouse tax free by the United States or any government al agency thereof, or by the several S tates and Territories or any municipal subdivision thereof or by the District of Columbia, or for the use of any scientific university or colle ge of learning, any laboratory for use exclusively in scientific research, or for use in any hospital or sanitarium. "But any person permitted to obtain alcohol tax free, except the United States and the several States and Territories and subdivi- sio ns th ereof, and the D istri ct of Colum bia, shall first appl y for and secure a permit to purch ase the same and give the bonds pr escribed under section 6 of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act, but alcohol withdrawn for nonbeverage purposes for use of the United States and the several States, Territories and subdivisions thereof, and the District of Columbia may be purchased and withdrawn subject only io such regulations as may be prescribed ." TITLE II With drawa ls by Uni ted State s, etc. Per mi ts required. SECTION 201. An y officer, agent, or employee of the United States engaged in the enforcement of any law of the United States who shall search any private dwelling used and occupie d as such dwell- ing without a warran t directing such search, or who, w hile engaged in such enforcement, shall without a search warrant maliciously and without reasonable cause search any other building or property, sha ll be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction t hereof shall be fined for a first offense not more than $1,000, and for a subsequent offense not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to any officer, agent, or employee of the United States serving a warrant of arrest, or arresting or attempting to arrest any person committing or attempting to commit an offense in the presence of such officer, agent, or employee, or who has committed, or who is suspected on reasonable grounds of having committed, a felony. Whoever not being an officer, agent, or employee of the United States shall falsely represent himself to be such officer, agent, or emp loyee, and in suc h assumed charact er shall arrest o r detain any person or shall in any manner search the person, buildings, or other property of any person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and u on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more Penalty. than 1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or by bo th such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 202 (a) The Act of March 22, 1933 (48 Stat . 16), entitled "An Act to provide revenue by the taxation of certain nonintoxi- eating liquors, and for other purposes ", is hereby repealed. (b) The shipment or transportation, in any man ner orb an shipment of intoxi- y y y eating liquor into State mea ns whatsoever, of any spirituous, vinous, malted, f ermented, or i n vi ol ati on o f i ts l aw s, prohibited . other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, Territory, or Vol.37,p.699;U. S. District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject C., p.1223. to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place non- contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor Illegal sea rches pri vate dwel lings. 877 Spirits of less proof than 160 degrees. of Penalty. Precise. Exemptions. Searches and ar res ts by person falsely rep- resenting himself as officer. Vol.48,p.16 U.5. C.,p.1167.