In re Leszynsky

15 F. Cas. 397, 16 Blatchf. 9, 25 Int. Rev. Rec. 71, 1879 U.S. App. LEXIS 2017
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York·Decided February 13, 1879·Published·Cited by 8 cases

Opinion

BLATCHFORD. Circuit Judge.

Section 331S of the Revised Statutes is in these words: “Every rectifier and wholesale liquor dealer shall provide a book, to be prepared and kept in such form as may be prescribed by the commissioner of internal revenue, and shall, on the same day on which he receives any foreign or domestic spirits, and before he draws off any part thereof, or adds water or anything thereto, or in any respect alters the same, enter in such book, and in the proper columns respectively prepared for the purpose, the date when, the name of the person or firm from whom, and the place whence, the spirits were received, by whom distilled, rectified or compounded, [398] and when and by whom inspected, and, if in the original package, the serial number of each package, the number of wine gallons and proof gallons, the kind of spirit, and the number and kind of adhesive stamps thereon. And every such rectifier and wholesale dealer shall, at the time of sending out of his stock or possession any spirits, and before the same are removed from his premises, enter in like manner in the said book, the day when, and the name and place of business of the person or firm to whom, such spirits are to be sent, the quantity and kind or quality of such spirits, the number of gallons and fractions of a gallon at proof, and, if in the original packages in which they were received, the name of the distiller and the serial number of the package. Every such book shall be at all times kept in some public or open place on the premises of such rectifier or wholesale dealer for inspection, and any revenue officer may examine it and take an abstract therefrom; and when it has been filled up as aforesaid, it shall be preserved by such rectifier or wholesale liquor dealer for a period not less than two years; and during such time it shall be produced by him to every revenue officer demanding it. And whenever any rectifier or wholesale liquor dealer refuses or neglects to provide such book, or to make entries therein as aforesaid, or cancels, alters, obliterates, or destroys any part of such book, or any entry therein, or makes any false entry therein, or hinders or obstructs any revenue officer from examining such book, or making any entry therein, or taking any abstract therefrom, or whenever such book is not preserved or is not produced by any rectifier or wholesale liquor dealer as hereinbefore directed, he shall pay a penalty of one hundred dollars, and shall, on conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned not less than three months nor more than three years.” This section is, in all material respects, a re-enactment of section 45 of the act of July 20th, 1868 (15 Stat. 143). In the first edition of the Revised Statutes, the words “on conviction,” found in said § 45, were omitted from said § 3,318, but,' by the act of February 27th, 1877 (19 Stat. 248.) said section 3318 was amended by inserting said words “on conviction,” that act stating that such amendment, with others, was made “for the purpose of correcting errors and supplying omissions” in the Revised Statutes, “so as to make the same truly express” the statutes of the United States in force on the-1st of December, 1873. Said section 3318, as above quoted, is quoted as it is printed in the second edition of the Revised Statutes, except that the word “quality” is printed “quantity,” by mistake, in the second edition, the word being “quality” in the first edition and in said section 45.

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In re Leszynsky, 15 F. Cas. 397, 16 Blatchf. 9, 25 Int. Rev. Rec. 71, 1879 U.S. App. LEXIS 2017 (circtsdny 1879).

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