Control of Alcoholic Beverages in the District of Columbia: Joint Hearings Before the Committees on the District of Columbia of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6148 and H.R. 6181, to Control the Manufacture, Trasnportation, Possession, and Sale of Alcoholic Beverages in the District of Columbia. January 5 and 6, 1934

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Page 87 - The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
Page 87 - A search warrant may in all cases be served by any of the officers mentioned in its direction, but by no other person, except in aid of the officer on his requiring it, he being present and acting in its execution.
Page 161 - wine" means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural sugar contents of fruits (grapes, apples, etc.) or other agricultural product containing sugar (honey, milk, etc.). (4) The word "beer...
Page 89 - When the officer takes property under the warrant, he must give a receipt for the property taken (specifying it in detail) to the person from whom it was taken by him, or in whose possession it was found; or, in the absence of any person, he must leave it in the place where he found the property.
Page 12 - States, stating the particular grounds or probable cause for its issue and the names of the persons whose affidavits have been taken in support thereof...
Page 13 - I, RS, the officer by whom this warrant was executed, do swear that the above inventory contains a true and detailed account of all the property taken by me on the warrant.
Page 3 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 3 - The compensation of all employees shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 89 - SEC. 14. The judge or commissioner must thereupon, if required, deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whose possession the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant.
Page 13 - The court upon conviction of the person so arrested shall order the liquor destroyed, and unless good cause to the contrary is shown by the owner, shall order a sale by public auction of the property seized, and the officer making the sale, after deducting...

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