of such interest, which schedule, list, or statement shall be by him delivered to such collector; and upon such payment and delivery of such schedule, list, or statement, said collector or deputy collector, shall grant to such person paying such duty or tax a receipt or receipts for the same in duplicate, which shall be prepared as is hereinafter provided; such receipt or receipts, duly signed and delivered by such collector or deputy collector, shall be sufficient evidence to entitle the person who paid such duty or tax as having taken the burden or trust of administering such property or personal estate to be allowed for such payment by the person or persons entitled to the beneficial interest in respect to which such tax or duty was paid; and such person administering such property or personal estate shall be credited and allowed such payment by every tribunal which, by the laws of any State or Territory, is or may be empowered to decide upon and settle the accounts of executors and administrators.

PENALTY FOR NEGLECT OR FRAUD.

And in case such person who has taken the burden or trust of administering upon any such property or personal estate shall refuse or neglect to pay the aforesaid duty or tax to the collector or deputy collector, as aforesaid, within the time hereinbefore provided, or shall neglect or refuse to deliver to said collector or deputy collector the schedule, list, or statement of such legacies, property, or personal estate under oath, as aforesaid, or shall deliver to said collector or deputy collector a false schedule or statement of such legacies, property, or personal estate, or give the names and relationship of the persons entitled to beneficial interests therein untruly, or shall not truly and correctly set forth and state therein the clear value of such beneficial interest, or where no administration upon such property or personal estate shall have been granted or allowed under existing laws, the proper officer of the United States shall

COMMENCE PROCEEDINGS

In law or equity before any court of the United States so

far as may be proper and necessary to enforce and realize the lien or charge upon such property or personal estate, or any part thereof, for which such tax or duty has not been truly and justly paid. Under such proceedings the rate of duty or tax enforced shall be the highest rate imposed or assessed

by this act, and shall be in the name of the United States against such person or persons as may have the actual or constructive custody or possession of such property or personal estate, or any part thereof, and shall subject such property or personal estate, or any portion of the same, to be sold upon the judgment or decree of such court, and from the proceeds of such sale, the amount of such tax or duty, together with all costs and expenses of every description to be allowed by such court, shall be first paid, and the balance, if any, deposited according to the order of such court, to be paid under its direction to such person or persons as shall establish their lawful title to the same.

THE DEED TO VEST A VALID TITLE.

The deed or deeds, or any proper conveyance of such property or personal estate, or any portion thereof, so sold under such judgment or decree, executed by the officer lawfully charged with carrying the same into effect, shall vest in the purchaser thereof all the title of the delinquent to the property or personal estate sold under and by virtue of such judgment or decree, and shall release every other portion of such property or personal estate from the lien or charge thereon created by this act. And every person or persons who shall have in his possession, charge, or custody, any record, file, or paper, containing or supposed to contain any information concerning such property or personal estate, as aforesaid, passing from any person who may die, as aforesaid, shall exhibit the same at the request of the collector of the revenue, his deputy, or agent, and to any law officer of the United States, in the performance of his duty under this act, his deputy or agent, who may desire to examine the same; and if any such person, having in his possession, charge, or custody, any such records, files, or papers, shall refuse or neglect to exhibit the same on request, as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars; and in case of any delinquency in making the schedule, list, or statement, or in the payment of the duty or tax accruing, or which should accrue thereon, the assessment and collection shall be made as provided for in the general provisions of this act: Provided, In all legal controver sies where such deed or title shall be the subject of judicial investigation the recital in said deed shall be presumed to be true, and that the requirements of the law had been complied with by the officers of the Government.

VII.-ALLOWANCE AND DRAWBACK.

WHEN ALLOWED AND ON WHAT GOODS.

From and after September 1st. there shall be an allowance or drawback on all articles on which any internal duty or tax shall have been paid, except raw or manufactured cotton, equal in amount, to the duty or tax paid thereon, and no more, when exported, the evidence that any such duty or tax has been paid to be furnished to the satisfaction of the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue by such person or persons as shall claim the allowance or drawback, and the amount to be ascertained under such regulations as shall, from time to time, be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the same shall be paid by the warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Treasurer of the United States, out of any money arising from internal duties not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That no allowance or drawback shall be made or had for any amount claimed or due less than twenty dollars, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding: And provided, further, That any certificate of drawback for goods exported, issued in pursuance of the provisions of this act, may, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be received by the collector or his deputy in payment of duties under this act. And the Secretary of the Treasury may make such regulations with regard to the form of said certificates and the issuing thereof as, in his judgment, may be necessary. (See Sections 35, 38, New Law.)

ADDITIONAL DRAWBACK ON COTTON GOODS.

That in computing the allowance or drawback upon articles manufactured exclusively of cotton when exported, there shall be allowed, in addition to the three per centum duty which shall have been paid on such articles, a drawback of five mills per pound upon such articles, in all cases where the duty imposed by this act upon the cotton used in the manufacture thereof has been previously paid; the amount of said allowance to be ascertained in such manner as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.

If any person or persons shall fraudulently claim or seek to obtain an allowance or drawback on goods, wares, or merchandise, on which no internal duty shall have been paid, or shall fraudulently claim any greater allowance or drawback than the duty actually paid, as aforesaid, such person or persons shall forfeit triple the amount wrongfully or fraudulently claimed or sought to be obtained, or the sum of five hundred dollars, at the election of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be recovered as in other cases of forfeiture provided for in the general provisions of this act.

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE,

UNDER THE EXCISE LAW.*

THE general principle of the Excise Law is, that each particular manufacture is taxed for its value, though materials used in its production are in themselves manufactures, on which a duty has been previously paid. This is true of shoes made from taxed leather, of engines made from iron, on which a tax has been paid, &c., &c.

Where a manufacturer has goods on hand at the place of manufacture, but has not taken out a license, nor kept his factory in operation since September 1st: such goods are subject to duty whenever sold or removed from the place of manufacture.

No. 2.

CONCERNING THE TANNING OF LEATHER.

A tanner who receives hides from other parties, (owners,) upon an agreement to tan the same by the piece, or by the pound, may remove the tanned leather, without inspection, to such owners, whenever it is ready to go forward; having first obtained and filed at this office the written certificate of the Assessor and Collector of the District in which the tannery is situated, that in their judgment such removal will not be prejudicial to the just administration of the Excise Law: Provided, that every tanner so removing tanned leather, shall make a monthly return to the Assessor of the District, of the number and weight of the sides or pieces of leather so removed: and provided, that he shall furnish to the Assessor, monthly, the Inspector's certificate of the weight and quality of the leather so removed during the preceding month, and that the tax shall be paid in the District where the tannery is situated.

No. 3.

IN REFERENCE TO TANNING LEATHER AND MAKING SHOES.

Tanning leather and manufacturing shoes, are distinct branches of manufacture, and the product of each must be taxed, though the same person may be engaged in both branches of business.

* These decisions (excepting Nos. 81, 82, 83,) having been made under and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 1st, 1862, reference to the several Sections of the amended Law noted at the foot of the respective Decisions will be found necessary to a proper understanding of the Law as it now stands.