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 228 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS SUBCHAPTER C-PACKING, STAMPING, AND SELLING REQUIREMENTS Part I-Tobacco and Snuff SEC. 2100. PACKAGES. All manufactured tobacco shall be put up and prepared by the manufacturer for sale, or removal for sale or consumption, in pack- ages of the following description and in no other manner: (a) SIZE. - (1) SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO AND SNUF'. - All smoking tobacco, snuff, fine-cut chewing tobacco, all cut and granulated to- bacco, all shorts, the refuse of fine-cut chewing, which has passed through a riddle of thirty-six meshes to the square inch, and all refuse, scraps, clippings, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco, and all other kinds of tobacco not otherwise provided for, in pack- ages containing one-eighth of an ounce, three-eighths of an ounce, and further packages with a difference between each package and the one next smaller of one-eighth of an ounce up to and including two ounces, and further packages with a difference between each package and the one next smaller of one-fourth of an ounce up to and including four ounces, and further packages with a difference between each package and the one next smaller of one ounce up to and including sixteen ounces: Provided, That snuff may, at the option of the manufacturer, be put up in bladders and in jars con- taining not exceeding twenty pounds. (2) CAVENDISH, PLUG, AND TWIST TOBACCO. - All cavendish, plug and twist tobacco, in wooden packages not exceeding two hundred pounds net weight. And every such wooden package shall have printed or marked thereon the manufacturer's name and place of manufacture, the registered number of the manufactory, and the gross weight, the tare and the net weight of the tobacco in each package. (b) MATERIAL.-Wood, metal, paper, or other materials may be used separately or in combination for packing tobacco and snuff under such regulations as the Commissioner may establish. (c) EXCEPTIONS. - (1) EXPORT PACKAGES. -T he limitations and descriptions of packages contained in subsection (a) shall not apply to tobacco and snuff transported in bond for exportation and actually exported. (2) LEAF TOBACCO SOLD BY PERSONS REGARDED AS MANUTFArITUERS.- All tobacco sold in the manner described in section 2010 (a) (2) by persons defined as manufacturers of tobacco thereunder shall be regarded as manufactured tobacco and shall be put up and pre- pared by such manufacturer in such packages only as the Com- missioner, with the approval of the Secretary, shall prescribe. (d) ENCLOSURES AND DESIGNS.-No packages of manufactured to- bacco or snuff, prescribed by law, shall be permitted to have packed in, or attached to, or connected with them, nor affixed to, branded, stamped, marked, written, or printed upon them, any paper, certifi- cate, or instrument purporting to be or represent a ticket, chance, share or interest in, or dependent upon, the event of a lottery, nor any indecent or immoral picture, representation, print, or words; and any violation of the provisions of this subsection shall subject the offender to the penalties and punishment provided by section 2161 (m). (e) LABEL-Every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall, in addi- tion to all other requirements of this title relating to tobacco, print on each package, or securely affix by pasting on each package con-

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