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objects enumerated in schedule marked C, subject to stamp duties, and apply to the provisions in relation thereto.

Penalty for making, selling, &c., certain articles without affixing stamps. Sec. 165. And be it further enacted, That if any person, firm, company, or corporation shall make, prepare, and sell, or remove for consumption or sale, drugs, medicines, preparations, compositions, articles, or things, including perfumery, cosmetics, lucifer or friction matches, cigar-lights, or wax tapers, photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, or other sun-pictures of any description, and playing-cards, upon which a duty is imposed by law, as enumerated and mentioned in schedule C, without affixing thereto an adhesive stamp or label denoting the duty before mentioned, he or they shall incur a penalty of ten dollars for every omission to affix such stamp: Provided,Proviso. That nothing in this act contained shall apply to any uncompounded medicinal drug or chemical, nor to any medicinePost, p. 482. compounded according to the United States or other national pharmacopœia, nor of which the full and proper formula is published in either of the dispensatories, formularies, or text-books in common use among physicians and apothecaries, including homœopathic and eclectic, or in any pharmaceutical journal now used by any incorporated college of pharmacy, and not sold or offered for sale, or advertised under any other name, form, or guise, than that under which they may be severally denominated and laid down in said pharmacopœias, dispensatories, text-books, or journals, as aforesaid, nor to medicines sold to, or for the use of, any person, which may be mixed and compounded specially for said persons, according to the written recipe or prescription of any physician or surgeon.

Penalty for removing stamps once affixed to evade duty; Sec. 166. And be it further enacted, That every manufacturer or maker of any of the articles for sale mentioned in schedule C, after the same shall have been so made, and the particulars hereinbefore required as to stamps have been complied with, who shall take off, remove, or detach, or cause, or permit, or suffer to be taken off, or removed, or detached, any stamp, or who shall use any stamp, or any wrapper or cover to which any stamp is affixed, to cover any other article or commodity than that originally contained in such wrapper or cover, with such stamp when first used, with the intent to evade the stamp duties, shall for every such article, respectively, in respect of which any such offence shall be committed, be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered together with the costs thereupon accruing; and every such article or commodity as aforesaid shall also be forfeited.

for selling, &c., certain articles without stamps. Sec. 167. And be it further enacted, That on and after the passage of this act every maker or manufacturer of any of the articles or or commodities mentioned in schedule C, as aforesaid, who shall sell, send out, remove, or deliver any article or commodity,Post, p. 482. manufactured as aforesaid, before the duty thereon shall have been fully paid, by affixing thereon the proper stamp, as provided by law, or who shall hide or conceal, or cause to be hidden or concealed, or who shall remove or convey away, or deposit, or cause to be removed or conveyed away from or deposited in any place, any such article or commodity, to evade the duty chargeable thereon, or any part thereof, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars, together with the forfeiture of any such article or commodity.

Medicines, &c., to be made, &c., without duty, to be manufactured in warehouses.

Sec. 168. And be it further enacted, That all medicines, preparations, compositions, perfumery, cosmetics, lucifer or friction matches, and cigar-lights, or wax tapers, cordials, and other liquors manufactured wholly or in part of domestic spirits, intended for exportation, as provided for by law, in order to be manufactured and sold or removed, without being charged with duty, and without having a stamp affixed thereto,Post, p. 482. shall, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, be made and manufactured in warehouses similarly constructed to those known and designated in treasury regulations as bonded warehouses, class two: Provided,Manufacturers to give bonds, &c. That such manufacturer shall first give satisfactory bonds to the collector of internal revenue for the faithful observance of all the