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Show THAT HUH" ' I WI PERMIT. I Only 200 Gallons of Non-Intox- H icating Fruit Juice Allowed M Head of Family. Through the filing of several np- H plications with the Collector of Inter- H nal Revenue for permitB to heads of H families to manufacture wine, arising H from nn idea gained through advertis- 'H ing letters and newspaper articles, It H is deemed proper to give tho follow- H ing information. Further dctaih. un- H dcr tho National Prohibition Act may WM bo obtained from tho Bureau of In- IjH tcrnal Revenue, if desired. H The office of the Collector of Tnter- H nal Rovcnuo docs not issuo permits M for tho manufacture of wine, homo M brew, distilled spirits, or any other M intoxicating liquors for beverage use M in tho home or elsewhere, and, under M tho law, cannot issuo such permits. M Non-intoxicnting fruit juico can bo M made in the home. Intoxicating wine, M homo brew, and distilled spirits may M not bo mado. M A manufacturer of non-intoxicating M fruit juices may make and sell tho M Bame, paying a tax of ten per cent M on the sulo price. If tho person en- M gaged in tho business of mnnufnotur- H ing non-intoxicating fruit juices for H tho market is tho head of a family, H such producer tuny obtain a permit H to manufacture) 200 gallons thereof H for tho use pf his own fnmiy, without H payment of tax. Such non-taxnblo H fruit Juice mut pot bo sold or qth- H orwiso removed from the place of H manufacture. H If tho manufacturer be not tho H head of a family, or if, being a mar- H ricd man, he, is living apart from his H family, or if the manufacturer be a H partnership, a. permit cannqfc bs is- . sued to exempt thp manufacturer .-ifH lromth-taxon-th-ftnvwpt.pMruit, -.,H juico named, H Thin tnx exemption to tho manu- M facturcf, who is also the head of a H family, may have been th sourco of H confusion. Tho effect of the excrap- H tion is not to allow the manufacture H of 200 gallons of intoxicating wino H free from tho restrictions of the Na- H tional Prohibition Act, but merely to H allow a producer to manufacture. 200 H gallons of non-intoxicating fruit M juices freo from tax. H Tho law does not allow the manu- H facture, without a permit, of, beer, H ale, and porter, oven though the. al- H coholic content be less than one-half H of one per cent of ulchohol by vol- H iimc. H The only persons issued permits H for the manufacture of cereal bever- H ages arc proprietors of dcalcoholizing H plants, industrial alcohol plants and H vinegar factories using tho vaporiz- H ing proccsH, all of whom may manu- H facture, commercially only, cereal H beverages containing less than one- H half of one per cent of alcohol by vol- H ume- . - It is illegal to furnish stills, parts H of ntills, worms or coils, malt extract H or syrups, unformented fruit juices, H such as grape mast or any ferment- H ablo material, recipes or formula, for H the manufacture of liquor for use in H the homo or elsewhere for beverage H purposes. H All alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, H gin, beer, nle, porter and wine arc in- toxicatiiifj liquors, regardless of alco- H holic content, and it is illegal to man- H ufacturo them without n permit, H Under the provisions of law, tho jH 200 gallons of fruit juico which may H bo produced by a manufacturer with- JH out payment of tax must, like ,any jH further quantity produced for homo H uso without permit, be non-intoxicat- H ing. M |