Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-04-28

shall be the duty OF all such retailers to keep
true and just account of all such wines and
spirituous liquors which they may have
bought and sold, during the term of their
licences, calculating the same, by the amount
on hand, if any, at the commencement, and
the quantity purchased during the term, and
deducting therefrom the amount sold and
exported from the Commonwealth, also the
amount sold as aforesaid to retailers, and
the amount on hand at the end of the same
and to exhibit such account by them sub
scribed annually to the Court Of
at the regular term appointed for granting
such licenses which said account shall be
accompanied with the oath of such retailer,
taken either before-the said Court, or some
Justice of the Peace within the County
where such license has been granted, and
who shall make certificate, on said account.
of the oath, and that such retailer has taken
the same before him; which said oath shall
be in the words following, viz 81, A. B.
do solemnly swear Tor affirm, as the case
may be) that the foregoing account by me
subscribedis true and just account Of all
wines and ardent spirits which have sold
by retail during the continuance of my IL
cense the last year." And said Court shall
ascertain the amount Of duties due by virtue
Of this act, from such retailer, and shall re-
quire him to pay the same to the Clerk of
said Court, who is hereby authorized and
required to pay the same to the County
Treasurer of the same County. And no
further license shall be granted to such per-
son by said Court, unless he shall have first
paid the duties as aforesaid, which, by the
terms of this act, may be due at the expra-
ton of his license, and shall have produced
satisfactory evidence to said Court, that the
SEINE has been thus paid.
SEC. 3. Be It further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of said Court, upon the
application of any person for license to re-
tail as aforesaid, before granting the same,
to require such applicant, to give bond with
two sufficient sureties to the Treasurer of
the County where his license is to be grant
ed, conditioned for the payment of the duties
herein before required to be paid. and also
that he will render true and just account
Of the sale of all wine and ardent spirits he
shall buy and sell, agreeably to the requisi-
tons of the second section of this Act.
SEC. A. Be It further enacted, That if
any person or persons either in buying or
selling any wines or ardent spirits, shall be
guilty of any fraud or deceit i'm the execu-
ton of this Act, or in evading or defeating
the operation of the same, every such person
on conviction thereof shall for every such
offence forfeit and pay sum not less than
twenty five, nor more than one hundred dol
lars, at the discretion Of the Court which
shall try the same, to be recovered in an ac-
ton of the case, in any Court of proper ju-
risdiction, the one half thereof to the use of
the person who shall first sue therefor, and
theother half to the use of the County in
which the offence shall have been commit
ted And every person who shall subscribe
and swear wilfully and falsely to any ac-
court by him rendered or delivered to said
Court, according to the direction Of this Act
shall incur such pains and penalties, as are
BY law prescribed for wilful perjury
Sec. S. Be 1t further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the several Clerks of
said Courts, to prepare and furnish at the
expense of the Commonwealth blank forms
for bonds and returns to be given and made
as aforesaid, and transmit suitable number
to the Town Clerks of the several Towns
in said County for the use of the retailers
within the same.
Sec. 6. Be It further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the several County
Treasurers within the Commonwealth annu-
ally to account with and pay over to the
Treasurer of said Commonwealth for the
use of the same all monies arising from the
duties which shall be paid him by virtue of
this act.
SEC. Z. Be 1t further enacted, That the
penal sum in the bonds required to be given
by retailers in this Act shall in no case be
less than quadruple the probable amount
which will be due from said retailer at the
expiration of his license; and if duly exc
cuted, witnessed and approved by majority
of the selectmen of the Town where such
license is to be granted, and such approval
certified by said selectmen on the back
thereof, such bond shall be taken and deem
ed by said Court to be good and sufficient
one, unless, from other circumstances and
evidence, they should be satisfied that the
same is insufficient, in which case they shall
require another one to be given.
MISCELLANEOUS.