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PUBLIC LAW 363-AUG. 11, 1955

United States relating to narcotic drugs and marihuana, the Secretary of the Treasury is empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, subpena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of any records (including books, papers, documents, and tangible things which constitute or contain evidence) which the Secretary of the Treasury finds relevant or material to the investigation. The attendance of witnesses and the production of records may be required from any place in any State or in any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at any designated place of hearing: Provided, That a witness shall not be required to appear at any hearing distant more than one hundred miles from the place where he was served with subpena. Witnesses summoned by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States. SEC. 2. A subpena of the Secretary of the Treasury may be served by any person designated in the subpena to serve it. Service upon a natural person may be made by personal delivery of the subpena to him. Service may be made upon a domestic or foreign corporation or upon a partnership or other unincorporated association which is subject to suit under a common name, by delivering the subpena to an officer, a managing or general agent, or to any other agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process. The affidavit of the person serving the subpena entered on a true copy thereof by the person serving it shall be proof of service. SEC. 3. In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena issued to, any person, the Secretary of the Treasury may^ invoke the aid of any court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which the investigation is carried on or of which the subpenaed person is an inhabftant, carries on business or may be found, to compel compliance with the subpena of the Secretary of the Treasury. The court may issue an order requiring the subpenaed person to appear before the Secretary of the Treasury there to produce records, if so ordered, or to give testimony touching the matter under investigation. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof the subpenaed person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found. Approved August 11, 1955.

Public Law 363

Witness f e e s.

CHAPTER 801

AN ACT To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for refund or credit of internal revenue taxes and customs duties paid on distilled spirits and wines lost, rendered unmarketable, or condemned by health authorities as a result of the hurricanes of 1954..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to make refund, or allow credit in the case of a distiller, winemaker, or rectifier if he so elects, in the amount of the internal revenue tax and customs duties paid on distilled spirits and wines previously withdrawn, and lost or rendered unmarketable or condemned by a duly authorized health official of the United States or of a State by reason of the hurricanes of 1954 while such spirits or wines were in the possession of (1) the person originally paying such tax, cfr such tax and duty, on such spirits or

August 11, 1955 [H.R. 5249]

Spirits and wine s l o s t in 1954 hunicanes. Tax refunds.

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