Collectors may enter distilleries at stated periods.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That a collector shall be authorized to enter, at any time between the rising and setting of the sun, any distillery or place where any stills, boilers, or other vessels used in distillation, are kept within his collection district, for the purpose of examining and measuring the same, and the other vessels therein, or of inspecting the accounts of spirits from time to time distilled. And every owner of such distillery, or stills, or boilers, or other vessels, or persons having the agency or superintendence of the same, who shall refuse to admit such officer, or to suffer him to examine and measure the same, or to inspect said accounts, shall for every such refusal forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
False swearing to be considered as amounting to wilful and corrupt perjury.Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall be convicted of wilfully taking a false oath or affirmation, in any of the cases in which an oath or affirmation is required to be taken in virtue of this act, shall be liable to the pains and penalties to which persons are liable for wilful and corrupt perjury; and shall, moreover, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars.
Refusing or non-complying distillers not entitled to licenses.Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That no person who shall have refused or neglected to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be entitled, while such refusal or neglect continues, to receive a license for employing, in distillation, any still, or boiler, or other vessel, or shall be entitled to credit for any duties on spirits that may have accrued.
Receipts to be given by collectors.Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That every collector shall give receipts for all sums by him collected under this act.
Bonds in certain cases to be surrendered to the obligors.Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the collector for the district, that any owner, agent, or superintendent, of a still, boiler, or other vessel, used in distillation, who shall have given bond agreeably to the second section of this act, and shall have ceased to use the same for one year, and made oath or affirmation thereof, to be lodged with said collector, hath acted agreeably to the condition of such bond, the collector shall cause such bond to be delivered to said owner, agent, or superintendent.
Provisions of this and fa former act to apply to stills used in the rectification of spirits.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act, as well as of the “Act laying duties on licenses to distillers of spirituous liquors,” passed the 24th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be deemed to apply to any still, or boiler, or other vessel used in distillation, which shall be employed in the rectification of spirituous liquors, and to spirits rectified therein, or with the aid thereof.
Licenses to distil from foreign to extend to domestic materials.Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That any license heretofore or hereafter granted for employing a still, boiler, or other vessel, in distilling spirits from foreign materials, shall authorize the distilling spirits from domestic materials also.
Former act to remain in force, except as it is altered by the provisions of this act.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 56.Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That the “Act laying duties on licenses to distillers of spirituous liquors,” passed the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be deemed to remain in full force, except as to the alterations thereof contained in this act, and that the several provisions of “An act making further provisions for the collection of internal duties, and for the appointment and compensation of assessors,” passed the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall, and are hereby declared to apply in full force to the duties and this act were recognised therein, which said duties shall be collected by the same collectors, in the same manner, for the same commissions, and under the same directions, as are thereby established in relation to the other internal duties; and all the obligations, duties, and penalties, thereby imposed upon the collectors, are hereby imposed upon the collectors of the duties laid by this act: Provided, That if any person to whom a license shall have been granted according
