Unnamed Revenue Officers and Deputies

Character Key Number: 
1240
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Unnamed Revenue Officers and Deputies
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Unnamed Revenue Officers and Deputies
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "A Point of Law" and again in Go Down, Moses, the "revenue officers and deputies" whom Lucas remembers worked for the U.S. government (215, 61). Selling or buying alcohol was illegal by Mississippi state law, but in general the moonshiners who made and sold whiskey were prosecuted for evading federal tax regulations.