§ 468. Stamps and brands effaced on emptying packages of imported liquors

Legislative history

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1. 1879

   Pub. L. 45–125 § 12 · 20 Stat. 327

   Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 468

   Mar. 1, 1879, ch. 125, § 12, 20 Stat. 342

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Mar. 1, 1879, ch. 125, § 12, 20 Stat. 342

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 12. That every person who empties or draw’s off, or causes to lie emptied or drawn off, the contents of any package of imported liquors stamped as above required, shall, at the time of such emptying, efface, obliterate, and destroy the stamp thereon, and also all other marks or brands which shall have been placed thereon in accordance with the law Using imported package for domestic liquors. or regulations concerning imported liquors; and no cask or other package, such as is hereinbefore mentioned, in which distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors have been imported, shall be used to contain domestic distilled spirits, under penalty of the forfeiture of such reused cask or pack- age and the contents thereof. Every cask or other package from which the stamp for imported liquors required by this act to be placed thereon shall not be effaced, obliterated, or destroyed, on emptying such package, shall be forfeited, and the same may be seized by any officer of internal revenue wherever found; and all the provisions and penalties of section Penalties. R. S. 3324. thirty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to empty casks or packages from which the marks, brands, or stamps have not been effaced or obliterated, and relating to the removal of stamps from packages, and to having in possession any stamps so removed, shall apply to the stamps for imported spirits herein provided for, and to the casks or other packages on which such stamps shall have been used.

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