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 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS SEC. 2011. REGISTRATION. Every manufacturer of tobacco shall register with the collector of the district his name, or style, place of residence, trade, or business, and the place where such trade or business is to be carried on. SEC. 2012. STATEMENT. Every person before commencing the manufacture of tobacco or snuff, shall furnish, without previous demand therefor, to the col- lector of the district where the manufacture is to be carried on, a statement in duplicate, subscribed under oath, setting forth the place, and if in a city, the street and number of the street, where the manu- facture is to be carried on; the number of cutting-machines, presses, snuff-mills, hand-mills, or other machines; the name, kind, and qual- ity of the article manufactured or proposed to be manufactured; and when the same is manufactured by him as agent for any other person, or to be sold and delivered to any other person under a special con- tract, the name and residence and business or occupation of the person for whom the said article is to be manufactured, or to whom it is to be delivered. SEC. 2013. BOND. Every person, before commencing the manufacture of tobacco or snuff, shall give a bond, to be approved by the collector of the dis- trict, in the sum of not less than $2,000 nor more than $20,000, to be fixed by the collector of the district, according to the quantum of business proposed to be done by the manufacturer, with right of appeal by the manufacturer to the Commissioner in respect to the amount of said bond, conditioned that he shall not engage in any attempt, by himself or by collusion with others, to defraud the Gov- ernment of any tax on his manufactures; that he shall render truly and completely all the returns, statements, and inventories prescribed by law or regulations; that whenever he adds to the number of cutting-machines, presses, snuff-mills, hand-mills, or other mills or machines enumerated in the statement required under section 2012, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the collector of the dis- trict; that he shall stamp, in accordance with law, all tobacco and snuff manufactured by him before he removes any part thereof from the place of manufacture; that he shall not knowingly sell, purchase, expose, or receive for sale, any manufactured tobacco or snuff which has not been stamped as required by law; and that he shall comply with all the requirements of law relating to the manufacture of tobacco or snuff. Additional sureties may be required by the col- lector from time to time. SEC. 2014. CERTIFICATE. Every manufacturer of tobacco shall obtain a certificate from the collector of the district, who is directed to issue the same, setting forth the kind and number of machines, presses, snuff-mills, hand- mills, or other mills and machines enumerated in the statement re- quired under section 2012; which certificate shall be posted in a con- spicuous place within the manufactory. SEC. 2015. SIGN. Every manufacturer of tobacco shall place and keep on the side or end of the building wherein his business is carried on, so that it can be distinctly seen, a sign, with letters thereon not less than three inches in length, painted in oil-colors or gilded, giving his full name and business. SEC. 2016. FACTORY NUMBER. Every collector shall cause the several manufactories of tobacco or snuff in his district to be numbered consecutively, which numbers shall not be thereafter changed, except for reasons satisfactory to himself and approved by the Commissioner. 222

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