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FELTON v. UNITED STATES

96 U.S. 699 (1877)

FELTON v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin Dean for the plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Assistant-Attorney-General Smith, contra.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The act of Congress, in requiring the apparatus connecting the receiving cisterns in a distillery with the outlet of the worm and condenser to be constructed in such a manner as to prevent the abstraction of spirits while passing from the outlet and condenser back to the still and doubler, was designed to guard against frauds upon the revenue, the perpetration of

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