The Revenue Agent’s Cigar Seizure

The cigars recently seized by the Internal Revenue officials, which bore fraudulent revenue stamps, will be returned to the owners upon payment of the revenue tax of $1 per hundred. Orders to this effect have been received by Deputy Collector I. V. Mower from N. W. Wilson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, D. C. The letter directs that small quantities of cigars shall be affixed with the proper government label and returned to the parties from whom they were taken, upon the payment of the revenue tax. In the case of large quantities, however, a compromise is demanded, money to be paid to the revenue department in addition to the tax. This compromise must be a sufficiently large sum to satisfy the commissioner. The work of stamping the cigars and returning them to the original owners began Monday morning and will be continued during the remainder of the week. That cigars bearing the bogus stamps are still on sale in the city was shown yesterday by the seizure of some of the cigars at the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street. A strict watch will continue to be kept by the revenue officers for these cigars.