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 320 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS mented liquors, or to fermented liquids used for the manufacture of vinegar exclusively. But no worm, goose-neck, pipe, conductor, or contrivance of any description whatsoever whereby vapor might in any manner be conveyed away and converted into distilled spirits, shall be used or employed or be fastened to or connected with any vaporizing apparatus used for the manufacture of vinegar; nor shall any worm be permitted on or near the premises where such vaporizing process is carried on. Nor shall any vinegar factory, for the manufacture of vinegar as aforesaid, be permitted, except as provided in section 2835, within six hundred feet of any distillery or rectifying house. But it shall be lawful for manufacturers of vinegar to separate, by a vaporizing process, the alcoholic property from the mash produced by them, and condense the same by introducing it into the water or other liquid used in making vinegar. No person, however, shall remove, or cause to be removed, from any vinegar factory or place where vinegar is made, any vinegar or other fluid or material containing a greater proportion than 2 per centum of proof spirits. Any violation of this provision shall incur a for- feiture of the vinegar, fluid, or material containing such proof spirits, and shall subject the person or persons guilty of removing the same to the punishment provided for any violation of this section. And sections 2827, 2828, and 2830 shall apply to all premises whereon vinegar is manufactured, to all manufacturers of vinegar and their workmen or other persons employed by them. SEC. 2835. VINEGAR FACTORIES OPERATED PRIOR TO MARCH 1, 1879. (a) REGLATmoNs. - Any vinegar factory for the manufacture of vinegar, established and operated vinegainegar factory prior to March 1, 1879, may be operated for the manufacture of vinegar by the use of alcoholic vapor within such distance less than six hundred feet of any distillery or rectifying house under such regulations as the Com- missioner may prescribe with the approval of the Secretary. (b) TRANSFER OF DUTIS. - For transfer of powers and duties of Commissioner and his agents, see section 3170. SEC. 2836 PROHIBITED HOURS FOR DISTILLING. Except as provided in section 2837, no malt, corn, grain, or other material shall be mashed, nor any mash, wort, or beer brewed or made, nor any still used by a distiller, at any time between the hour of eleven in the afternoon of any Saturday and the hour of one in the forenoon of the next succeeding Monday; and every person who violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of $1,000. SEC. 2837. EXEMPTION OF ALCOHOL FROM RESTRICTIONS OF SECTION 2836 .(a) POWER OF CoMMISSIONER. -Under such regulations as the Com- missioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may prescribe, the manufacture, warehousing, withdrawal, and shipment of ethyl alcohol for other than (1) beverage purposes or (2) use in the manufacture or production of any article used or intended for use as a beverage, and denatured alcohol, may be exempted from the provisions of section 2836. (b) TRANSFER OF DUTIES. - For transfer of powers and duties of Commissioner and his agents, see section 3170. SEC. 2838. PENALTY FOR USING MATERIAL OR REMOVING SPIRITS IN ABSENCE OF STOREKEEPER-GAUGER. Every distiller or person employed in any distillery who, in the absence of the storekeeper-gauger, or person designated to act as storekeeper-gauger, uses, or causes or permits to be used, any material for the purpose of making mash, wort, or beer, or for the production

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