Show MUST DE DESTROY STROY ALL MARKS hereafter liquor dealers must obliterate brands on unused barrells and boxes or uncle sam will get after them 5 nn n important de decision clion haa has just been made by it ba cabal commissioner of internal revenue which will kail tu to a more rigid enforcement of the revenue law in the future in the past it has always been incumbent upon a liquor dealer when he emptied a birrel or a package of liquor of any kind which require required d a government stamp to destroy that stamp thia this la is the law but the statute goca gots further than this and makes it imperative upon the dealer to obliterate not only the stamp but all marks and unit brands on the barrel l or package this latter provision haa has always alays been ben in the law but it haa has not been enforced and the order just issued from the treasury department by commissioner cabal is that the provisions of the statute be strictly enforced in every particular and detail in the future so that a further duty devolves upon the liquor dealer now the marks and anti brands beside taj th stamp referred to include the date of inspection of the tile liquor name of the officer making the inspection ebion stamp number designation of the kind of liquor and blend and the various figures around the tile bun bung g stave being the original groa weight of the package in fact all narka narks and figures around the bung stave must be completely obliterated this precaution is being taken so that the barrel cannot be used again and anti esc ese ipe the internal revenue taxation the goern government ment of course never neer doff does things by halves so that for a violation of this statute an extreme penalty is imposed one who fails to comply with ith the law ahall be deemed dimmed guilty of a felony mony and shall be fined not lass than five hundred dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned not less than one year nor more than five year so that saloonkeepers saloon keepers and liquor dealers arc are now up against the real thing and had better govern them acco accordingly revenue bials say that the liquor man has been so long accustomed d to just cancelling the stamp that some of them are liable to let their foot slip and get cau glit hut the government penalties ado do not cease here railroads are liable to a fine of thief hundred dollars for each cacti empty empt v bai bat rel or package that they carry upon which the stamp has not been be en canceled and the marks and brands obliterated 30 that railroad companies will have to leep heep a watchful eye in the future E even een en the poor is liable to lund land in jail one provision in the statute bays u that should a revenue officer find an espre aman or anyone else with an empty barrel in his wagon with marks and brands undestroyed the driver is liable to arrest fine and imprisonment and the confiscation of his its team and wagon |