Before commencing business the proprietor of any manufacturing warehouse shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury a list of all the articles intended to be manufactured in such warehouse, and state the formula of manufacture and the names and quantities of the ingredients to be used therein. Articles manufactured under these provisions may be withdrawn under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe for transportation and delivery into any bonded warehouse at an exterior port for the sole purpose of immediate export there from: Provided, That cigars manufactured in whole of tobacco imported from any one country, made and manufactured in such bonded manufacturing warehouses, may be withdrawn for home consumption upon the payment of the duties on such tobacco in its condition as imported under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and the payment of the internal-revenue tax accruing on such cigars in their condition as withdrawn, and the boxes or packages containing such cigars shall be stamped to indicate their character, origin of tobacco from which made, and place of manufacture. The provisions of Revised Statutes thirty-four hundred and thirtythree shall, so far as may be practicable, apply to any bonded manufacturing warehouse established under this act and to the merchandise conveyed therein. Drawback. PAR. O. That upon the exportation of articles manufactured or produced in the United States by the use of imported merchandise or materials upon which customs duties have been paid, the full amount of such duties paid upon the quantity of materials used in the manufacture or production of the exported product shall be refunded as drawback, less 1 per cent of such duties: Provided, That where a principal product and a by-product result from the manipulation of imported material and only the by-product is exported, the proportion of the drawback distributed to such byproduct shall not exceed the duty assessable under this act on a similar by-product of foreign origin if imported into the United States. Where no duty is assessable upon the importation of a corresponding by-product, no drawback shall be payable on such by-product produced from the imported material; if, however, the principal product is exported, then on the exportation thereof there shall be refunded as drawback the whole of the duty paid on the imported material used in the production of both the principal and the by-product, less 1 per cent, as hereinbefore provided: Provided further, That when the articles exported are manufactured in part from domestic materials, the imported materials or the parts of the articles manufactured from such materials, shall so appear in the completed articles that the quantity or measure thereof may be ascertained: And provided further. That the drawback on any article allowed under existing law shall be continued at the rate herein provided. That the imported materials used in the manufacture or production of articles entitled to drawback of customs duties when exported shall, in all cases where drawback of duties paid on such materials is claimed, be identified, the quantity of such materials used and the amount of duties paid thereon shall be ascertained, the facts of the manufacture or production of such articles in the United States and their exportation therefrom shall be determined, and the drawback due thereon shall be paid to the manufacturer, producer, or exporter, to the agent of either or to the person to whom such manufacturer, producer, exporter, or agent shall in writing order such drawback paid, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. That on the exportation of flavoring extracts, medicinal or toilet preparations (including perfumery) hereafter manufactured or produced in the United States in part from domestic alcohol on which an internal-revenue tax has been paid, there shall be allowed a drawback equal in amount to the tax found to have been paid on the alcohol so used: Provided, That no other than domestic tax-paid alcohol shall have been used in the manufacture or production of such preparations. Such drawback shall be determined and paid under such rules and regulations, and upon the filing of such notices, bonds, bills of lading, and other evidence of payment of tax and exportation, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. That the provisions of this section shall apply to materials used in the construction and equipment of vessels built for foreign account and ownership, or for the Government of any foreign country, notwithstanding that such vessels may not within the strict meaning of the term be articles exported. Regulations relative to the use of rectified alcohol in the manufacture for export of flavoring extracts, etc. (T. D. 1968.) Articles manufactured in the United States from imported materials for exportation, and flavoring extracts, toilet and medicinal preparations manufactured from domestic tax-paid alcohol, under paragraph O of section 4, tariff act of October 3, 1913. (T. D. 33809.) Articles relmported. PAR. P. That upon the reimportation of articles once exported, of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws upon such articles, except articles manufactured in bonded warehouses and exported pursuant to law, which shall be subject to the same rate of duty as if originally imported, but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Refund of offers in compromise. JOINT RESOLUTION To refund under certain conditions a portion of the offers in compromise for failure to make the return required under the act of October 3, 1913, said offers in compromise having been covered into the Treasury, and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1225). That the Secretary of the Treasury, on application to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, be, and is hereby, authorized to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, unto corporations all amounts paid by them into the Treasury of the United States in compromise by such corporations on account of their failure to make report under the requirements of the income tax law for the income-tax year nineteen hundred and thirteen, so paid in excess of $10; and the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized to likewise refund as to said tax year any and all amounts exacted and paid into the Treasury of the United States as penalties by corporations required by the law to make income-tax return, but which in their nature are not subject to income tax; and the Secretary is further authorized to likewise refund as to same tax year any and all amounts paid by individuals as penalties on account of their failure to make income-tax returns for said year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as required by law, so paid in excess of $5. Repeal in part of act of August 5, 1909 (36 Stat., 11). PAR. S. That, except as hereinafter provided, sections one to fortytwo, both inclusive, of an act entitled "An act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to permit any oaths to be demanded or fees to be charged except as provided in this act or in section twentyeight hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, nor to repeal or in any manner affect the following numbered sections of the aforesaid act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, viz: Subsection twenty-nine of section twenty-eight and subsequent laws and amendments relating to the establishment and continuance of a Customs Court, subsection thirty of section twentyeight, providing for additional attorneys, subsection twelve of section twenty-eight and subsequent provisions establishing a Board of General Appraisers of merchandise, sections thirty, thirty-one, thirtytwo, thirty-three, and thirty-five, imposing an internal-revenue tax upon tobacco, section thirty-six, providing for a tonnage duty, section thirty-nine, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow on the credit of the United States to defray expenditures on account of the Panama Canal, section forty, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow to meet public expenditures: Provided further, That all excise taxes upon corporations imposed by section thirty-eight, that have accrued or have been imposed for the year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be returned, assessed, and collected in the same manner, and under the same provisions, liens, and penalties as if section thirtyeight continued in full force and effect: And provided further, That a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing of business, equivalent to 1 per centum upon their entire net income, shall be levied, assessed, and collected upon corporations, joint stock companies or associations, and insurance companies of the character described in section thirty-eight of the act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the period from January first to February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, both dates inclusive, which said tax shall be computed upon one-sixth of the entire net income of said corporations, joint stock companies or associations, and insurance companies, for said year, said net income to be ascertained in accordance with the provisions of subsection G of section two of this act: Provided further, That the provisions of said section thirty-eight of the act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, relative to the collection of the tax therein imposed shall remain in force for the collection of the excise tax herein provided, but for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen it shall not be necessary to make more than one return and assessment for all the taxes imposed herein upon said corporations, joint stock companies or associations, and insurance companies, either by way of income or excise, which return and assessment shall be made at the times and in the manner provided in this act; but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said repeal or modification; but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made. Any offenses committed and all penalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred prior to the passage of this act under any statute embraced in or changed, modified, or repealed by this act may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. No acts of limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this act shall be affected thereby so far as they affect any suits, proceedings, or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this act, which may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Saving clause intended to relate only to rights and liabilities in respect to taxes accrued under 1909 act and was not intended to cover excise taxes for months of January and February, 1913. Co. v. United States, 240 Fed., 539.) CHAPTER 9. (Butterick AN ACT TO INCREASE THE INTERNAL REVENUE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. APPROVED OCTOBER 22, 1914 (38 STAT., 745). Fermented liquors. Wines, liquors, cordials, etc. Fortified wines. Amendment to law relative to wines. Adhesive stamps; tax on instruments. Counterfeiting stamps; selling forged Cancellation of stamps; penalty. Persons issuing promissory note unstamped; penalty. Collectors to furnish stamps; regulations. Persons registering, issuing, etc., any Instrument not to be recorded if un- Instrument not valid on account of Exemptions. Provisions as to dies and stamps applicable to Schedule B. When Schedule B takes effect; penalty. Removing stamps, reusing wrappers, etc.; penalty. Articles in Schedule B; sending out Declaration in writing to be filed with Schedule A, stamp taxes on instruments. Schedule B, stamp taxes on perfumery and cosmetics, and other similar articles, and on chewing gum. Drawback. General provisions applicable; penalty; appropriation. Date act takes effect; how long in force; redemption of stamps. Extension of act of October 22, 1914, appropriation. Redemption of stamps. Repeal of act of October 22, 1914. Fermented liquors. Be it enacted, etc., That there shall be levied, collected, and paid in lieu of the tax of $1 now imposed by law, a tax of $1.50 on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liquor, brewed or manufactured and sold, or stored in warehouse, or removed for consumption or sale, within the United States, by whatever name such liquors may be called, for every barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons; and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional parts of a barrel authorized and defined by law. And section thirty-three hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended accordingly: Provided, That the additional tax imposed in this section on all fermented liquors stored in warehouse to which a stamp has been affixed shall be assessed and collected in the manner now provided by law for the collection of taxes not paid by stamp: Provided further, That until appropriate stamps are prepared and furnished, the stamps heretofore used to denote the payment of the internal-revenue tax on fermented liquor may be stamped or imprinted with a suitable device to denote the new rate of tax herein imposed, and shall be affixed to all packages containing such liquors on which the tax imposed by this act is paid. Any person having possession of unaffixed stamps heretofore issued for the payment of the tax on fermented liquors shall present the same to the collector of the district, who shall receive them at the price paid for such stamps by the purchaser and issue in lieu thereof new or imprinted stamps at the rate provided in this act. Additional tax; instructions to collectors. (T. D. 2026.) Instructions relative to reporting collection of additional taxes. (T. D. 2031.) Further instructions in connection with additional tax on fermented liquors. (T. D. 2047.) Wines, liqueurs, cordials, etc. SEC. 2. That upon all still wines, domestic and imported, when sold or offered for sale or consumption, there shall be levied and collected taxes as follows: On each bottle containing one-fourth pint or less, one-fourth cent; on each bottle containing more than one-fourth pint and not more than one-half pint, one-half cent; on each bottle containing more than one-half pint and not more than one pint, 1 cent; and on each bottle containing more than one pint and not more |