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 LIQUOR 309 not more than one year, or both. As used in this section, (a) the term "distilled spirits" has the same meaning as that in which it is used in section 2803; (b) the term "person" includes individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, trusts, and other incorpo- rated and unincorporated organizations; and (c) the term "substance of the character used in the manufacture of distilled spirits" includes, but not by way of limitation, molasses, corn sugar, cane sugar, and malt sugar. SEC. 2812. NOTICE OF BUSINESS OF DISTILLER OR RECTIFIER. (a) REQUIREMENTS.- Every person engaged in, or intending to be engaged in, the business of a distiller or rectifier, shall give notice in writing, subscribed by him, to the collector of the district wherein such business is to be carried on, stating his name and residence, and if a company or firm, the name and residence of each member thereof, the name and residence of every person interested or to be interested in the business, the precise place where said business is to be carried on, and whether of distilling or rectifying; and if such business is carried on in a city, the residence and place of business shall be indi- cated by the name of the street and number of the building. In case of a distiller, the notice shall also state the kind of stills and the cubic contents thereof, the number and kind of boilers, the number of mash tubs and fermenting tubs, the cubic contents of each tub, the number of receiving cisterns, the cubic contents of each cistern, the number of hours in which the distillery will ferment each tub of mash or beer, the estimated quantity of distilled spirits which the apparatus is capable of distilling every twenty-four hours, a particu- lar description of the lot or tract of land on which the distillery is situated, and of the buildings thereon, including their size, ma- terial, and construction; and that said distillery premises are not within six hundred feet (or the distance permitted by the Secretary pursuant to law), in a direct line, of any premises authorized to be used for rectifying or refining distilled spirits by any process. In case of a rectifier, the notice shall state the precise place where such business is to be carried on, the name and residence of every person interested or to be interested in the business, the process by which the applicant intends to rectify, purify, or refine distilled spirits, the kind and cubic contents of any still used or to be used' for such purpose, the estimated quantity of spirits which can be rectified, purified, or refined every twenty-four hours in such estab- lishment, and that said rectifying establishment is not within six hundred feet (or the distance permitted by the Secretary pursuant to law) in a direct line, of the premises of any distillery registered for the distillation of spirits. In case of any change in the location, form, capacity, ownership, agency, superintendency, or in the persons interested in the business of such distillery or rectifying establishment, or in the time of fer- menting the mash or beer, notice thereof, in writing, shall be given to the said collector or proper deputy collector, of the district within twenty-four hours after such change; and any deputy collector receiving such notice shall immediately transmit the same to the collector of the district. Every notice required by this section shall be in such form, and shall contain such additional particulars, as the Commissioner may, from time to time, prescribe. Every person who fails or refuses to give such notice shall pay a penalty of $1,000, and shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $2,000; and every person who gives a false or fraudulent notice shall, in addition to such penalty or fine, be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. (b) TRANSFER or DUTIEs.- For transfer of powers and duties of Commissioner and his agents, see section 3170.

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