Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-03-26
CARRoLLToN MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY MARCH &C. 1872

Icense shall be granted for shorter period Of
time than twelve months, and such license
shall be personal privilege, and shall not be
transferable from one TO another: and if any
person shall sell vinous or spirtuous liquors, in
less quantity than one gallon, without license
from the board of police of the county, or the
corporate authorities of the city or town, as
the case may be, in which such vinous or spir-
tuous liquors shall be sold, he, she. or thew,
shall be subject to Indictment or presentment
therefor, and upon conviction thereof, shall
forfeit and pay the sum of FIVE hundred dollars,
and shall be imprisoned in the common Jail of
the county for thirty days.
SEC. 5. Belt further enacted, That if any
person, either with or without license to re-
tail, shall sell any vinous or spirituous liquors
to any slave, without permission of his or her
master, mistress, owner or oyerseer, he, she,
or they, so offending, shall be subjected to in.
dictment or presentment, and upon conviction
thereof, shall pay fine of FIVE hundred dol
lars, and shall be imprisoned in the common
Jail of the county, for period of not less than
thirty, nor more than ninety days: and upon
the trial of any indictment under this section,
| if it be proved the person TO whom the liquor
was sold was negro or mulatto, that fact
shall be received as prima facie evidence of his
or her being slave.
! SEE. 6. Re IL further enacted. That before
any person shall! be licensed to retail oinous or
sprituOus liquors, he or she shall produce before
the board of police of the county, as the case
may be. the written recommendation of five
| freehOders of his or her neighborhood, setting
forth that he or she is of good reputation, and
suitable person to receive such license, and
no such license shall be delivered 10 any per-
son until he or she shall have produced the re-
ceipt of the treasurer of the county, city or
town as the case may be, for the amount of the
tax assessed for such license, and shall have
executed bond, in the penal sum OF one
thousand dollars, with one or more good and
sufficient securities, payable 10 the president
of the board of police, and his successors in
office, or TO the principal magistrate of the
town or city by whatever title designated, and
his successor in office as the case may be, con-
ditioned, that he will keep an orderly and
we'll conducted house, anu will not permit any
riotous or disorderly conduct, or any gaming
NIT TO be sold, TO any slave, any vinous or
spirituous liquors., during the continuance OF
his or her license.
Sec. Z. Be it further enacted, That the
; bond required TO be given by the preceding
section, shall be filed in the office of the clerk
/ of the board of police, or the town or city
clerk as the case may be, and for any breach
thereof, may be put in suit at the instance oil
any one, and the whole penalty be recovered
one half to the use Of The county, or city, OF
town, and the other half 10 the use of the per.
: son putting the same in suit, and certified
copy thereof may be used in any suit thereon
and it shall hot be necessary to make proof o.
= the original bond.
Sec. 8. Be 1t further enacted, That no in.
, dictment for violation of the provisions O
: this act, shall be squashed for want of form
4, it shall not be necessary to make aYermen
S therein of the particular kind or descriptions
} of vinous or spirtuous liquor sold, nor that the
same was sold TO any particular person or per
= sons, nor to the slave or slaves of any particu
D lar person or persons, and it shall not be ne
cessarv to endorse on any indictment, for az
] name of prosecutor.
e Sec. 9. BE 1t further enacted, That the
e Judges of the several courts in the State, il
a which indictments for violation of the &C
r to which this is an amendment are pend
), ing, and have not proceeded to find judgment
h shall cause the same 10 be dismissed, on tn,
: defendant or defendants producing the receip
/ of the clerk for all the costs of such indict
f ment.
: SEC. 10. Be II further enacted, That tn
!, boards of police and corporate Authorities re
: spectvely shall designate in such license grant
d ed by them, the particular place and house il
C which vinous and spiriiuous liquor may b
n sold, by the person to whom such license i
# granted, and no license granted under the pro
z visions of this act, shall authorize any person
or persons to sell vinous or spirituous liquo
4 at any other place or house than that specific,
IS in said license.
n Sec ii. Be it further enacted, That it shal
). be the duty of the tax collector of each an
every county in the State TO demand and re
e ceive from the treasurer of his county all sue
n moneys as shall have been paid into the count,
o treasury, under and in virtue of the provision
:, OF this act. for the use of the State, and t
!. pay the same into the treasury of the State