Survey of Alcoholic Liquor Traffic and the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Conditions of Enforcement and General Conditions Resulting from the Adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment with the Report of the Subcommittee and Recommendations for Strengthening the Enforcement Code

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Page 118 - An act to prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to insure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries...
Page 118 - It shall be unlawful to have or possess any liquor or property designed for the manufacture of liquor intended for use in violating this title or which has been so used, and no property rights shall exist in any such liquor or property.
Page 117 - Any room, house, building * * * or place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, kept or bartered in violation of this title, and all intoxicating liquor and property kept and used in maintaining the same is hereby declared to be a common nuisance" and for the maintaining of such a place penalties are provided.
Page 120 - It is the duty and the right not only of every officer of the United States, but of every citizen, to assist in prosecuting and in securing the punishment of any breach of the peace of the United States. It is the right as well as the duty of every citizen when called upon by the proper officer to act as part of the posse comitatus in upholding the laws of his country.
Page 118 - But it shall not be unlawful to possess liquors in one's private dwelling while the same is occupied and used by him as his dwelling only and such liquor need not be reported, provided such liquors are for use only for the personal consumption of the owner thereof and his family residing in such dwelling and of his bona fide guests when entertained by him therein ; and the burden of proof shall be upon the possessor in any action concerning the same to prove that such liquor was lawfully acquired,...
Page 117 - ... and suffers the same to be so occupied or used, such room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place shall be subject to a lien for and may be sold to pay all fines and costs assessed against the person guilty of such...
Page 118 - A search warrant may issue as provided in Title XI of public law numbered 24 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, approved June 15, 1917, and such liquor, the containers thereof, and such property so seized shall be subject to such disposition as the court may make thereof. If it is found that such liquor or property was so unlawfully held or possessed, or had been so unlawfully used, the liquor and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of liquor shall be destroyed unless the court shall otherwise...
Page 117 - Act and suffers the same to be so used, such property shall be subject to a lien for, and may be sold to pay, all fines and costs assessed against the occupant of such building or...
Page 112 - Upon the filing of application and bond and issuance of permit denaturing plants may be established upon the premises of any industrial alcohol plant, or elsewhere, and shall be used exclusively for the denaturation of alcohol by the admixture of such denaturing materials as shall render the alcohol, or any compound in which it is authorized to be used, unfit for use as an intoxicating beverage.
Page 34 - I did it ; but it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do in all my life.

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