Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-03-28

LICENSE LAws.-Th Legislature Of Mas
having been memorialized on ;
his subject have appointed committee,
who report the following form Of an act,
for the consideration Of the Legislature: L
aAN ACT TO REeULATE THE SALE OF
SPIRIToUs LIaUoRs.-Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representatives,
in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
Sec. |. No licensed innholder, retailer,
common victualler, or other person, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided, shall sell any
brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors,
or any mixed liquor, part of which is
spiriiuous, in less quantity than twenty
eight gallons, and that delivered and car
ried away all at one time, on pain OF
forfeiting not more than twenty dollars,
nor less than ten dollars, to be recovered
in the manner and for the use provided
in the twenty-sixth section of the forty
seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes.
Sec. 2. The county commissioners in
the several counties, may license for their
respective towns as many persons, as
many apothecaries, or practieing physi
clans, as they deem necessary to be re-
tailers of spirituous liquors for medical
purposes only. and the mayor and alder
men of the several cities, may, in like
manner, and for like purpose, license
apothecaries as retailers for their respec-
tive cities; and the court of common pleas
in the county of Suffolk, in like manner,
and for like purpose, license apotheca-
ries or practicing physicians, as retailers
in the town Of Chelsea, which licenses
shall be granted in the same manner, and
under the same restrictions now provided
by law for licensing retailers.
Sec. 8. All licenses hereafter granted
to innholders, retailers, all common vict-
ualIers, shall be so framed as not to au-
thorize the licensed persons to sell brandy,
rum, or any other spirituous liquors, ex-
cept for medicinal purposes. by apothe-
carries and physicians, as is provided in
, the second section of this act; and no
, excise or fee shall be required for such a
, license.
Sec. A. The provisions of all laws now
in force, inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from
| and after its passage"
: Why not despatch the monster at orce
Is there music in his groans and denuncia
> tons, that he should be crushed gradually
! Or will the work that he is able to do, afte
v being crippled, be less malignant or PERM
= cious? He who can pay for only six cent
worth at time, shall not have the privileg
IS of spending his money for poison-but b
:; who has fifteen dollars to spare for the sam
81 work of murder and suicide may have fu
TX liberty to
Il "-deal damnation round the Iand,''
to at pleasure, under the sanction of law !
AS long as he can purchase by the whole
e. sale, he may make wholesale business
as poisoning himself, and family, and friend
IS and as many OF his pennyless, starvin
1t neighbors as will labor for him at ha
price, and the additional privilege of bein
poisoned!!
Ie- A murder was committed by the keeps
nd of brothel. in Albany, on Saturday mig
On last, or more properly on Sunday, betwee
and 2 o'clock in the morning, which h;
e. agitated the whole city, Several hui
TX dreds collected on Sunday evening
nat demolish the house; but the inmates ha
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