§ 469. Dealing in or using empty stamped imported liquor containers

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1879

   Pub. L. 45–125 § 13 · 20 Stat. 327

   Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 469

   Mar. 1, 1879, ch. 125, § 13, 20 Stat. 343

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Mar. 1, 1879, ch. 125, § 13, 20 Stat. 343

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 13. That if any person shall purchase or sell, with the imported-liquor Dealing in, or using empty imported packages. stamp herein required remaining thereon, or any of the marks or brands which shall have been placed thereon in accordance with the laws or regulations concerning imported liquors remaining thereon, any cask or other package, after the same has been once used to contain imported liquors and has been emptied; or if any person shall use or have in possession such cask or package, with any imitation of such marks or brands, for the purpose of placing domestic distilled spirits therein for sale; or Counterfeiting imported packages. shall, for such purpose, manufacture, use, or have in possession any cask or package made in imitation of, or intended to be in the similitude of, such imported casks or packages, with any imitation of such marks or brands thereon, every such cask or package, with its contents, if any, shall be forfeited to the United States. And every such person who shall Penalty. violate any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars for every such cask or package so purchased, sold, manufactured, used, or had in possession.

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