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 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS SEa. 4. All intoxicating liquor involved in any violation of this Act, the containers of such intoxicating liquor, and every vehicle or vessel used in the transportation thereof, shall be seized and forfeited. Such seizure and for- feiture, and the disposition of such property subsequent to seizure and for- feiture, or the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of such property, shall be in accordance with existing laws or those hereafter in existence relat- ing to seizures, forfeitures, and dispositions of property or proceeds, for violation of the internal-revenue laws. (U. S. C ., Title 27, § 224.) SEa. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury shall enforce the provisions of this Act and of sections 238, 239, and 240 of the Criminal Code (U. S . C ., 1934 ed., Title 18, secs. 388-390), as herein amended. (Second paragraph codified in Title 26, Internal Revenue.) Regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. (U. S . C ., Title 27, § 225.) SaE. 10. Nothing contained in this Act shall repeal any other provisions of existing laws except such provisions of such laws as are directly in conflict with this Act and nothing in this Act shall apply to the Canal Zone. (U. S . C ., Title 27, § 226.) Sac. 11. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby. (U. S. C., Title 27, § 227.) SEC. 12. This Act shall be effective as of the thirtieth day following the date of its enactment. (U. S. C ., Title 27, § 228.) LIQUOR TAX ADMINISTRATION ACT (Act of June 26, 1936, c. 830, Title V, 49 Stat. 1964, etc.) Trmi V SECTIO 501. (a) The Federal Alcohol Administration created as a division in the Treasury Department by section 2 (a) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, approved August 29, 1935 (Public Numbered 401, Seventy-fourth Congress), is hereby made an independent establishment of the Government. The office of Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration is abolished, and hereafter the Federal Alcohol Administration shall be composed of three members, ap- pointed as provided in section 502 of this title. (b) All rights, privileges, powers, and duties conferred or imposed upon the Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration are conferred and imposed upon the Federal Alcohol Administration. All papers, records, and property of the Administrator and the Federal Alcohol Administration, as a division of the Treasury Department, are transferred to the Federal Alcohol Administra- tion as an independent establishment of the Government. (c) The Federal Alcohol Administration is authorized, without regard to the civil-service laws, to appoint such attorneys and experts, and, subject to the civil-service laws, to appoint such other officers and employees, as it deems necessary to carry out its powers and duties; and the compensation of all such attorneys, experts, and other officers and employees shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. All officers and employees appointed by the Administrator and engaged in carrying out his powers and duties shall be officers and employees of the Federal Alcohol Admin- istration: Provided, That no such officer or employee who does not already possess a competitive classified civil-service status shall thereby acquire such status, except upon recommendation by the Federal Alcohol Administration to the Civil Service Commission, subject to such noncompetitive tests of fitness as the Commission may prescribe; and no such officer or employee, except attorneys and experts, may be retained in the Federal Alcohol Administration without appropriate civil-service status for a period longer than sixty days from the effective date of this section. (d) All provisions of law applicable to the Administrator shall be applicable in the same manner and to the same extent to the Federal Alcohol Adminis- tration. (U. S . C., Title 27, § 202 (a).) SEC. 502. (a) The members of the Federal Alcohol Administration shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Not more than two members of the Administration shall be members of the same political party. The terms of office of the members first taking office shall expire, as designated by the President at the time of nomination, one at the end of the first year, one at the end of the second year, and one at the end of the third year after the date of the enactment of this Act. A successor shall have a term of office expiring three years from the date of expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, except that a person appointed CLXX

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