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Volume 52 · 690

Public Law 75–393

To amend section 3336 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, pertaining to brewers’ bonds, and for other purposes.

Approved June 15, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 3336 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, pertaining to brewers’ bonds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 3336

Liquor tax administration.

R. S. § 3336.

26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1334 (b).

Brewer’s bond.

of the Revised Statutes, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. III, title 26, sec. 1334 (b)), is further amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 3336.

Every brewer, on filing notice as provided by law of his intention to commence or continue business, shall execute a bond to the United States in a penal sum equal to the amount of the tax on fermented malt liquor which, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, said brewer will be liable to pay during any one month: Provided, That the penal sum of any such bond shall not

Proviso.

Amount.

Conditions.

exceed $100,000 nor be less than $1,000. The bond shall be conditioned that the brewer shall pay, or cause to be paid, as herein provided, the tax required by law on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other fermented liquors made by or for him, before the same is sold or removed for consumption or sale, except as hereinafter provided; and that he

Records.

shall keep, or cause to be kept, in the manner required by law, a book which shall be open to inspection by the proper officers, as by law required; and that he shall in all respects faithfully comply, without fraud or evasion, with all requirements of law relating to the manufacture and sale of any malt liquors aforesaid. Once in every four

Renewals.

years, or whenever required so to do by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, or such officer as may be designated by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the brewer shall execute a new bond in the penal sum prescribed in pursuance of this section, and conditioned as above provided, which bond shall be in lieu of any former bond or bonds of such brewer in respect to all liabilities accruing after its approval.”

Approved, June 15, 1938.

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