Chapter 177. To amend section thirty-two hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning the drawing off, gauging, marking, and removal of spirits
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CHAP. 177.— An Act To amend section thirty-two hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States concerning the drawing off, gauging, marking, and removal of spirits. February 21, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section thirty-two hundredDistilled spirits.May be drawn into wooden packages containing metallic cans for export.[R. S., sec. 3287, p. 636](/us/rs/s3287/p636), amended.Vol. 21, p. 147. and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by section six of the Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the laws in relation to internal revenue,” be amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
" “*Provided, however,* That upon the application of the distiller, and under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe, distilled spirits may be drawn into wooden packages, each containing two or more metallic cans, which cans shall have each a capacity of not less than five gallons, wine measure, such packages to be filled and used only 844 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 177, 178. 1899. for exportation from the United States.
And there shall be charged for each of said packages or cases for the expense of providing and affixing stamps, five cents instead of ten cents as now required by law.” " Approved, February 21, 1899.