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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 108. 1886. 14:7 first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended by inserting after the word "casks," in the tenth line thereof, the words “or packages," and by inserting after the word “them," in the thirteenth line thereof, the words " at the time they were deposited in the distillery warehouseand said entry shall also specify the number of gauge or wine gallons, and Entry. of proof-gallons and taxable gallons contained in said casks or packages at the time application shall be made for the withdrawal thereof”. Sec. 6. That section thirty-two hundred and eighty-seven of the Ro- R. S. 3287, vised Statutes of the United States as amended by an act entitled “An Am°”d°d· act to amend the laws relating to internal revenue", approved March 187% ch- 125» first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended by striking out S°“°‘· 20*3% all after said number, and substituting therefor the following: ‘°All distilled spirits shall be drawn from the receiving cisterns into Dimlled ¤PiFi*¤ casks or packages, each of not less capacity than ten gallons wine-measure, dmwn fit" P$k` and shall thereupon be gauged, proved and marked by an internal- ?§§°,;,,i;Ou;S°w;,Q¥ revenue gauger, who shall cut on the cask or package containing such measure. spirits, in a manner to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal H<>W g=*·¤8°d» Revenue, the quantity in wine-gallons and in proof-gallons of the con- £,;t‘{{;'d° d * “ “ d tents of such casks or packages, and the particular name of such distilled (g,,,,,,,};,,,;,,,,,,, of spirits as known to the trade, that is to say, high—wines, alcohol, or spirits, Internal _ Revenue as the case may be, shall be marked or branded on the head of such cask *0 P¤*¤<=¤‘>*> ¤¤¤k¤ or package in letters of not less than one inch in length; and the spirits we b"‘“‘dS‘ shall be immediately removed into the distillery warehouse, and the gauger shall, in the presence of the storekeeper of the warehouse, place E H I 5 v 6 d upon the head of the cask or package an engraved stamp, which shall Bmmpg be signed by the collector of the district and the storekeeper and 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 or package, in progressive order, as the same are received from the distillery. Such serial number for evry distillery shall be in` regular sequence of the serial number thereof, beginning with number one (No. 1) with the first cask or pack·- age deposited therein after July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, and no two or more casks or packages warehoused at the same distillery shall be marked with the same number. The said stamp shall be as follows: "Distillery—warehouse stamp No. —. Issued by -1 -———-, collector, -—— district, State of -—-—-, distillery warehouse of ———— -—·-—, 18-, Cask No. —; contents -—-— galloris proof-spirits —_`-T-` U-1.7 United States Storekeeper "Attest: United States Gau,ger." Sec. 7. That section thirty-three hundred and ten of the Revised R. S. 3310, Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words Am°'*d°'1· “evry distiller at the hour of twelve meridian on the third day after that on which his bond is approved/’ occurring on the first and second lines thereof, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words: _ _ “ The first fermenting period of evry distiller shall be taken to begin on 1_i£*Pm°¤l>1¤8 P°· the day the distiller’s bond is approved; and evry distiller at_the hour of twelve meridian on the last day of such nrst fermenting period, or at the same hour on any previous day of such fermenting period on which spirits are distilled ". Sec. 8. That section six of an act entitled "An act amend the laws $72, 6g 153 relating to internal revenue ”, approved March first, eighteen hundred “ ·> l •_ · and seventy-nine, be amended by inserting after the word “prem1ses", Comimsgoner of on the twenty-iirst line thereof, the following: And the Commissioner of ggmsusggag Internal Revenue upon the production to him of satisfactory proof of the of spmu actual destruction, by accidental nre or other casualty, and_without any ju cw, of ire eg fraud, collusion, or negligence of the d1st1ller of any spmts m process of other casualty.