The Clerk read as follows: SEC. Abife:.That if any person or persons shall carry on any businessof distilling or reciilyinir without having aid the special tax as required by law. he or they s all. for every such olfense. besides being liable to the payment of the tax upon thespirits distilled, also beliable to a pen alty of 100 %. in addition thereto.to be assessedby the assessor and shall eachbesubject. upon conviction. to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 ycars: and upon sulficientinformation of such ofiense. the collector. deputy collector or other authorized officer of the districtin which the same shall he alleged to have beencommitted.may enter upon the promisesof the personor personsby whom such offense is alleged to have been commit ted. using such force asmaybenecessaryfor that purpose and may seize all spirits or spirituous liquors, and all materials for making or preparing the same respectively and all vesse lsand utensils containing the same and all stills or other apparatus capable of being usedfor distilling and may hold the same and the said collector. upon the assessmentafore said having beenmade and upon the conviction of the said person or persons.sha I sell such stills. up iaratus and other niuterinls. vessels, utensils and iquors so seized and shall apply the proceeds in satisfaction of such assessment and of the fine. if imposed: and the said assessmentand fine or such part thereofus shall not have beensosatisfied shall. until paid. be a lien in favor of the U.S. from and alter the time when such assessment is made or such fine laid. upon all property and righis to property of the person y whomsuch offense shall have beencommitted and upon his interest in the lands and promisesin which it shall have been committed and upon all his property therein and such lion may be enforced by ovy and distraint by said collector or by suit in rem and when the personal property found shall not be sutficientto satisfy the same.such lands and premisesmay be seized and upon the decree of the court the interest aforesaid sold and proceedsapplied in paymentthereof and the person or persons furnishing the information upon which such seizure shall have been made or the officer who made such seizure. if having acted upon information obtained by himself. shal. upon the order of the SecyTreasury. receive such part and in such proportions of a moiety of the said 100 %. assessedpenalty and of a moiety of the Unifine when recovered.as the SecyTreasury shall determine.