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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 186. 1868. 185 sumed in said distillery, which fact shall be immediately reported to the '¤°'° f¤¤*°¤l¤S•• assessor of the district, and by him transmitted to the commissioner of g:g°Q§;r°p°rH° internal revenue. Any distiller, after the time fixed in said notice de- _Penulty upon claring his intention to suspend work, who shall carry on the business of at E‘i2;}i)‘;1g’;1;’;"' distiller on said premises, or shall have mash, wort, or beer in his distil- ¤%i,s°&m;· timL levy, or on any premises connected therewith, or who shall have in his stated in notice possession or under his control any mash, wort, or beer, with intent to °° °° S°°P°°dmg' distil the same on said premises, shall incur the forfeitures and be subject to the same punishment as provided for persons who carry on the business of a distiller without having paid the special tax. Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That all distilled spirits shall be Distilled spirits drawn from the receiving cisterns into casks, each of not less capacity than ;°;s€;r‘;;“¥,&f'°m twenty gallons wine measure, and shall thereupon be gauged, proved, and cnsks, &¤.am1 marked by an internal-revenue gauger, by cutting on the cask containing S*“8?d· such spirits, in a manner to be prescribed by the commissioner of inter- c,,:;?? ty ° nal revenue, the quantity in wine gallons, and in proof gallons, of the t b d contents of such cask, and shall be immediately removed into the distillery to gisgliziglcvs warehouse, and the gauger shall, in presence of the storekeeper of the warehouse; warehouse, place upon the head of the cask an engraved Stamp, which engraved shall be signed by the collector of the district and the storekeeper and g??;,;" hm gauger, and shall have written thereon the number of proof gallons contained therein, the name of the distiller, the date of the receipt in the warehouse, and the serial number of each cask, in progressive order, as the same shall be received from the distillery. Such serial number for b S6'? ¤‘L¤}· every distillery shall begin with number one (No. 1) with the era cask °§§ @,;},**,,5,,, deposited therein after this act takes effect, and no two or more casks number one. warehcuscd at the same distillery shall be marked with the same number. The said stamp shall be as follows : — Distillery warehouse stamp No. --—. Form ofstamp. Issued by -————- —--———, collector, —-——-· district, State of ————·. Distillel·y warehouse of -·-—, 18-. Cask No. —— —-, contents -—·-— gallons, proof spirit. °-°`1`-r-_—-_-! United States Storekeeper. Attest: Y- _-___;) United States Guuger. And the distiller or owner of all spirits so removed to the distillery Sl>l1g*;=_*°dl>° warehouse shall on the first, eleventh, and twenty—iirst days of each month, °2;?{:,.i_;fO¤€g_ or within five days thereafter, enter the same for deposit in such ware- §;, and on what house, under such rules and regulations, not inconsistent herewith, as the Y“· commissioner of internal revenue may prescribe; and said entry sha1l_ Entry to be be in triplicate, and shall contain the name of the person making the en- m mPh°”·‘*°· try, the designation of the warehouse in which the deposit is made, and the date thereof, and [shall] be in form as follows : — Entry for deposit in distillery warehouse. Form or entry Entry of distilled spirits deposited by -—-—— —-—·——, in distillery warehouse ——, in the———-district, State of ———-—, on the --- day of -——-, anno Domini --—-. And the entry shall specify the kind of spirits, the whole number of S ilcfgfyvfgah casks, the marks and serial numbers thereon, the number of gauge or wine ,%,1 bg ,.,,,,,,,1 gallons and of proof gallons, and the amount of the tax on’the spirits con- by oath. tained in them; all of which shall be verified by the oath or athrmation of the distiller or owner of the same attached to the entry; and the said