The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-18 00:00:00

SALE OF BEER BILL.

A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTI
YEARS OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY, FOR THE SALE 0

BEER AND CIDER BY RETAIL IN ENGLAND.
[Note. —The words printed in italics are proposed to be it
scrted in the Committee.]
Whereas an Act was passed in the fourth and fifth years (
his present Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act to amend al
Act passed in the first year of his present Majesty, to perm
the general sale of Beer and Cider by retail in England:
and whereas much evil still continues to exist in the nianaga
ment and conduct of houses in which beer and cider are sol
by retail, under the provisions of the said recited Act, in rur:
districts; and it is expedient to amend the provisions of th
said Act in certain particulars; be it therefore enacted by th
King's, most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice an
consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Common
-in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
the same, that from and after the commencement of this Ac
every person licensed to sell beer by retail, to be drunk o
the premixes, desirous of renewing his said licence, shall pre
duce to the persons authorised to renew the same, a sintilz
certificate to that required by an Act passed in the fourth an
fifth years of the reign of his Majesty King William th
Fourth, intituled, " An Act to amend an Act passed in th
first year of his present Majesty, to permit the general sale
Beer and Cider, by retail in England," save and except the
two of the subscribing parties shall be the clergyman an
constable of the parish.
And be it further enacted, that if such constable shall re
fuse to subscribe his name to such certificate, or shall neg
lect to- insert thereon whether such applying person has c
has not, to the best of his knowledge and belief, been cyst
victed of any offence against the enactments of the said. 21
cited Act, or against an Act passed in the first year of a
reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intitulcs
" An Act to permit the general Sale of Beer and Cider
retail in England," or shall fail to specify thereon the nun
ber of such convictions of such applying person within th
preceding twelve months, he, the said constable,. shall, on cot
viction before two Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay an
sum not exceeding ten pounds, or in default of payment then
of, be committed to the nous° of CorreCtion for two calersst
months.

And be it further enacted, that if any person licensed
aforesaid shall have been within the twelve months r,recei
ing his application for such renewal convicted of ttr:y-offcni
against the enactments of the said recited Acts, his hem
shall not be renewed for six months ; or if he s.'aall have be(
convicted of a second offence against the same within tl
same period, his licence shall not he renewable for twelJ
months ; or if he shall have been convicted of a third oifou
against the same, and within the same time, his licence sha
not be renewable for two years.

And be it further enacted, that if any person shall obtain tl
renewal of his license contary to the provisions of the 1,,b0
recited section, he shall, on conviction before two Justices
the Peace, forfeit and pay twenty pounds, and in default of pa
ment shall be committed to the House of Correction for al
time not exceeding six months, nor less than two, and he di
qualified from selling beer for two years.
And be it further enacted, That if any constable or oth
peace-officers shall refuse or neglect to visit the house as
premises of any person licensed us aforesaid, and within
parish, upon the demand of any rate-payer thereof,-the so
rate-payer having first tendered to him his reasonable exivens
for the same ; or if, on so visiting the said house and Hen
Fes, he shall find the person se licensed transgressing,.,•or pt
mitting, others to transgress, any of the enactments of the sf
recited Acts, and shall refuse or neglect to lay incozemati
thereof before two of his Majesty's Justices of the. Pemee I
the county in which the said offence or offences shall ha
been committed, and to prosecute with effect the said offend
or offenders, under the provisions of the said recited Acts, I,
the said constable, or other peace officer, shall, on convieti,
before two 'Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay any sti
not•exceeding ten pounds, and in default of payment shall
committed to the House of Correction for any time not a
eceding two months.
And it further enacted, that all penalties under this A
shall be recovered (except where otherwise enacted) and s'
propriated in the same manner as those under the said recit
Act of the first year of the reign of his Majesty King Willi.,
the Fourth.

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the legal hours: 1
opening and closing houses licensed to sell beer and tide r
retail to be drunk on the premises, in cases in which. t
Justices of the Peace have omitted to fix the hours at
houses so licensed shall be opened and closed : be it, thel
fore, enacted, that in all cases in which the Justices Lcti
for the district or place in which the houses so license ti sh
be situate, shall have omitted to fix the hours for o peril
and closing, the hour of opening shall not be earlit tb
seven of the clock in the morning, nor for closing lat. sr tll
ten of the clock at night, or before one of the clock 'in I
afternoon on Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas-day, a
day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving.
And be it further enacted, that this Act shall extena to
places in England and Wales, not being within the line its 0
city or borough town ; and shall commence and Is: f eft'
from and after the thirty-first day of August, one thous°
eight hundred and thirty-seven.

-And be it further enacted, that every person app' Lying for
license to sell beer and cider by retail, not to b e drunk
consumed on the premises, shall annually prods ice to 3.
deposit with the Commissioners of Excise the same cent'
cate, and be subjected to the same provisions :as is and °
required by the second section of the said recited
_Act
the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his Majest y 161
William the Fourth.

And be it further enacted, that the penalty of the sever tteell
section of the said recited Act for selling beer to be dr fink
consumed on the premises sithout having an Excise lie, Inq
force authorizing such sale, be hereby made recoverable be'°
any two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in th a sal
manner as other penalties under the said recited Act, an 3113'
recoverable before them, and with the same power to n lir4".
the same.

And be it further enacted that all constables, and other pe3
officers shall hereby have the same power to enter intl> !aotls
licensed to sell beer by retail not to be drunk or cor,sun Jed
the premises, as they have to enter into those licensed to 51
beer to be drunk or consumed on the premises, aceordi.a g to tij
provisions Jet' the seventh section of the said recited Pict ; ~
that all the provisions and penalties of the said sectio u shall
equally in force as relating to the former houses, as they II",
arc as to the latter.

And be it hereby further enacted, that no lice. ase to se
beer or cider by retail shall be granted to the owner of at
house which is not situated within five hundrer2 yards
some other inhabited house, or upon some turnpike road, I.B'
road, or canal.