property and rights to property; and the collector, after demand, may levyLevy. or by warrant may authorize a deputy collector to levy upon all property and rights to property belonging to such person, bank, association, company, or corporation, or on which the said lien exists, for the payment of the sum due as aforesaid, with interest and penalty for non-payment, and also of such further sum as shall be sufficient for the fees, costs, and expenses of such levy. AndEffect of certificate of sale. in all cases of sale, the certificate of such sale by the collector shall have the same effect as is prescribed by the one hundred and nineteenth section of the act to which this is an amendment. And all persons and officers of companies or corporations are required, on demand of a collector or deputy collector about to distrain or having distrained on any property and rights of property,Books to be exhibited. to exhibit all books containing or supposed to contain evidence or statements relating to the subject or subjects of distraint, or the property or rights of property liable to distraint for the tax so due as aforesaid: Provided, That in any case of distraint for the paymentWhen and how goods distrained may be restored. of the duties or taxes aforesaid, the goods, chattels, or effects so distrained shall and may be restored to the owner or possessor, if prior to the sale payment of the amount due or tender thereof shall be made to the proper officer charged with the collection of the full amount demanded, together with such fee for levying, and such sum for the necessary and reasonable expense of removing, advertising, and keeping [the] goods, chattels, or effects so distrained, as may be prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue; but in case of non-payment or tender as aforesaid, the said officers shall proceed to sell the said goods, chattels, or effects at public auction, and shall and may retain from the proceeds of such sale the amount demandable for the use of the United States, with the necessary and reasonable expenses of distraint and sale, and a commission of five per centum thereon for his own use, rendering the overplus, if any there be,Overplus to be returned. to the person whose goods, chattels, or effects shall have been distrained: Provided, further, That there shall be exempt from distraint the toolsExempt from distraint. or implements of a trade or profession, one cow, arms, and provisions, and household furniture kept for use, school-books, and apparel necessary for a family."
That section thirty-eight be amended by striking therefrom the words "thirty-five," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "thirty-six."
That section forty be amended by inserting after the words "appointment of a successor," the words: "Provided,Vacancy in office of collector. That in case it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that the interest of the government shall so require, he may, by his order,Ante, p. 239. direct said duties to be performed by such other one of the said deputies as he may in such order designate."
Oaths. That section fifty-two be amended by inserting before the words "That all assessors," the words "And be it further enacted;" by inserting after the word "deputies,"Ante, p. 242. the words "revenue agents;" and by striking out after the word "charged" the word "and," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "or."
Ante, p. 242. That section fifty-three be amended by inserting after the word "distiller," where it first occurs, the words "before distilling any spirits;" by striking out after the word "any," and preceding the words "still or stills," the word "additional;" by striking out after the word "used," and preceding the words "shall be erected," the words "as aforesaid," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "for distilling;" and by inserting after the words "shall be erected," the words "or used."
Application for license as a distiller. That section fifty-four be amended by striking out the words "the same," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "and owning the same, and owning the building used as a distillery, and the land on which the same is located, and if the building or land is leased, the terms and conditions of the lease;" and by striking out the word "one," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "three."
That section fifty-five be amended by inserting after the words "said