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[CITE: 48USC734a]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 734a. Extension of industrial alcohol and internal revenue 
        laws to Puerto Rico
        
    Title III of the National Prohibition Act, as amended, and all 
provisions of the internal revenue laws relating to the enforcement 
thereof, are extended to and made applicable to Puerto Rico from and 
after August 27, 1935. The Insular Government shall advance to the 
Treasury of the United States such funds as may be required from time to 
time by the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of defraying all 
expenses incurred by the Treasury Department in connection with the 
enforcement in Puerto Rico of the said Title III and regulations 
promulgated thereunder. The funds so advanced shall be deposited in a 
separate trust fund in the Treasury of the United States and shall be 
available to the Treasury Department for the purposes of this section.

(June 26, 1936, ch. 830, title III, Sec. 329(c), 49 Stat. 1957.)

                       References in Text

    The National Prohibition Act, as amended, referred to in text, is 
act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 305, as amended. Title III of such 
Act was classified principally to chapter 3 (Sec. 71 et seq.) of Title 
27, Intoxicating Liquors, and was omitted from the Code in view of the 
incorporation of such provisions in the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, 
and subsequently into the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

                          Codification

    Provisions similar to those comprising this section relating to the 
Virgin Islands are classified to section 1402 of this title.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.


                            Cross References

    Industrial alcohol plants, application of internal revenue laws to 
Puerto Rico, see section 5314 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
