APPENDIX to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of such term shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. No person shall be eligible for appointment or continue in office as a member if he is engaged or financially interested in, or is an officer or director of or employed by a company engaged in, the production or sale or other distribution of alcoholic beverages or the financing thereof. Each member shall, for his services, receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 per annum, together with actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses while engaged in the performance of his duties as member outside the District of Columbia. (b) One of the members shall be designated by the President annually at the beginning of the calendar year as chairman and shall be the chief executive officer of the Administration; one of the members shall be designated by the President annually at the beginning of the calendar year as vice chairman of the Administration and shall perform the functions and duties of the chairman in his absence or in the event of his incapacity caused by illness; and one of the members, who shall be a lawyer, shall be designated by the President as general counsel of the Administration. The Administration may function not- withstanding vacancies, and a majority of the members in office shall constitute a quorum. The Administration shall meet at the call of the chairman or a majority of its members. The Administration is authorized to adopt an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed. The Administration shall be entitled to free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the executive departments. (c) The Administration is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its powers and duties. (U. S. 0 ., Title 27, § 202 (b).) SEC. 503. (a) Sections 2 (b), 2 (c), and 2 (d) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act are hereby repealed. All rules, regulations, orders, permits, and certificates, prescribed or issued by the Administrator and in full force and effect on the effective date of this section, shall continue in full force and effect until duly modified, superseded, or revoked. (b) All proceedings, hearings, investigations, or other matters pending before, or being carried on by, the Administrator shall be continued and brought to determination by the Administration. (c) No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or officer of the United States shall abate by reason of the transfer of rights, privileges, powers, and duties, or the abolition of the office of Administrator, under the provisions of this title. (U. S . C., Title 27, § 202 (c).) SEC. 504. The unexpended balances of appropriations available for salaries and expenses of the Federal Alcohol Administration, as a division of the Treasury Department, shall be available for salaries and expenses of the Federal Alcohol Administration, as an independent establishment of the Govern- ment, including the salaries and expenses of the members of the Federal Alcohol Administration. (U. S. C., Title 27, § 212.) SEC. 505. The third paragraph of section 5 (e) of the Federal Alcohol Admin- istration Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "In order to prevent the sale or shipment or other introduction of distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages in interstate or foreign commerce, if bottled, packaged, or labeled in violation of the requirements of this subsection, (1) no bottler of distilled spirits, no producer, blender, or wholesaler of wine, or proprietor of a bonded wine storeroom, and no brewer or wholesaler of malt bev- erages shall bottle, and (2) no person shall remove from customs custody, in bot- tles, for sale or any other commercial purpose, distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages, respectively, after such date as the Administrator fixes as the earliest practicable date for the application of the provisions of this subsection to any class of such persons (but not later than August 15, 1936, in the case of distilled spirits, and December 15, 1936, in the case of wine and malt bev- erages, and only after thirty days' public notice), unless, upon application to the Administrator, he has obtained and has in his possession a certificate of label approval covering the distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages, issued by the Administrator in such manner and form as he shall by regulations pre- scribe: Provided, That any such bottler of distilled spirits, or producer, blender, or wholesaler of wine, or proprietor of a bonded wine storeroom, or brewer or wholesaler of malt beverages shall be exempt from the requirements of this subsection if, upon application to the Administrator, he shows to the satis- faction of the Administrator that the distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages to be bottled by the applicant are not to be sold, or offered for sale, or shipped or delivered for shipment, or otherwise introduced, in interstate or foreign commerce. Officers of internal revenue are authorized and directed to withhold the release of distilled spirits from the bottling plant unless such certificates have been obtained, or unless the application of the bottler for exemption has been granted by the Administrator; and customs officers are authorized and directed to withhold the release from customs custody of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages, unless such certificates have been obtained. The District Courts of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, CLXXI
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