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 LIQUOR 319 SEC. 2832. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CARRYING ON BUSINESS OF DISTILLING. It shall not be lawful for any distiller to commence the business of distilling, until he has given the bond required by law, and com- plied with the provisions of law relating to the registration and sur- vey of distilleries, and the arrangement and construction of distil- leries and the premises connected therewith; nor shall it be lawful for any person to engage in the business of distilling on any prem- ises distant less than six hundred feet in a direct line from any premises used for rectifying; nor shall the processes of distillation and rectification both be carried on within the distance of six hundred feet in a direct line; except that the Secretary is authorized to per- mit such business of distilling or process of distillation to be carried on at such lesser distance than six hundred feet as he prescribes, in any case in which he deems that such permission may be granted without danger to the revenue. SEC. 2833. DISTILLING WITHOUT GIVING BOND. (a) PENALTY AND FonEErruR .- Any person who shall carry on the business of a distiller without having given bond as required by law, or who shall engage in or carry on the business of a distiller with in- tent to defraud the United States of the tax on the spirits distilled by him, or any part thereof, shall, for every such offense, be fined not less than $100 nor more than $5,000 and imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than two years. And all distilled spirits or wines, and all stills or other apparatus, fit or intended to be used for the distillation or rectification of spirits, or for the compounding of liquors, owned by such person, wherever found, and all distilled spirits or wines and personal property found in the distillery or in any building, room, yard, or inclosure connected therewith, and used with or constituting a part of the premises, and all the right, title, and interest of such person in the lot or tract of land on which such distillery is situated, and all right, title, and interest therein of every person, who knowingly has suffered or permitted the business of a dis- tiller to be there carried on, or has connived at the same; and all per- sonal property owned by or in possession of any person who has per- mitted or suffered any building, yard, or inclosure, or any part thereof, to be used for purposes of ingress or egress to or from such distillery, which shall be found in any such building, yard, or inclosure, and all the right, title, and interest of every person in any premises used for ingress or egress to or from such distillery, who has knowingly suf- fered or permitted such premises to be used for such ingress or egress, shall be forfeited to the United States. (b) TRANSFER OF DUTIES. For transfer of powers and duties of Commissioner and his agents, see section 3170. SEC. 2834. MASH, WORT, AND VINEGAR; VINEGAR FACTORIES. No mash, wort, or wash, fit for distillation or for the production of spirits or alcohol, shall be made or fermented in any building or on any premises other than a distillery duly authorized according to law; and no mash, wort, or wash so made and fermented shall be sold or removed from any distillery before being distilled; and no person, other than an authorized distiller, shall, by distillation, or by any other process, separate the alcoholic spirits from any fermented mash, wort, or wash; and no person shall use spirits or alcohol in manufac- turing vinegar or any other article, or in any process of manufacture whatever, unless the spirits or alcohol so used shall have been pro- duced in an authorized distillery and (except in the case of vinegar) the tax thereon paid. Every person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined for each offense not less than $500 nor more than $5,000. and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to fer-

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