The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-11-26
J, HOLC0MB, Editor 4 Publisher.

either OF sand articles ten dollars
If any person shall be guilty of more than
one distinct offence, as prohibited in this act,
he may be prosecuted and subjected to all
such penalties at the same time.
Ii any person without a license therefor, as
provided i'll this act, shall hereafter become
an innkeeper or tavern keeper, and shall,
therein, furnish any %yictualS, lodgings or ac-
commodations for guests, he shall forfeit and
pay to the Treasurer of said county, for the
use OF said County, the sum OF twenty dol
lars.
Ifany person without a license therefor, as
provided i'll this act, shall hereafter keep any
victuatling house, shop OF cellar, and shall
therein sell any victuais or fruit, he shall for
felt and pay 10 the Treasurer OF the County,
for the use ofthe County, as u penalty, the
sum Of ten dollars.
Sec. 3. The County court shall have eX-
elusive jurisdiction over all offences against
this act, and the said offenders may be pros
ecuted by indictment or information
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty OF the several
States Attorneys, within their respective
Counties, to prosecute all violations of this
act and they are herebyconstituted informs
ing officers for that purpose, to
prosecutions before any Justice Of the Peace,
us well DIS DeloTe tue several county
Courts.
Sec. 5. Any Justice of the Peace is en-
powered to bind over to the county Court,all
persons charged with offences against this act,
and to recognlze all witnesses who have test.
iiel therein before him.
Sec. s. Any person asking and receiving
a license, as provided in this act, for the sale
of any distilled spirituous liquors, wine, ale or
beer, shall, before the same becomes valid, pay
therefor, to the Treasurer Of the county, for
the use Of the county as follows:
/. For a license as a wholesale dealer, a
sum not less than twenty dollars, nor more
than fifty dollars for one year;
2. For a License as a retailer, a sum not
less than six dollars nor more than twenty
dollars for one year: not less than three dol
lars nor more than ten dollars for six
months;
3, For a license as a tavern keeper, a sum
not less than three dollars, nor more than
twenty dollars for one year and not less than
one dollar and fifty cents nor more than ten
dollars, for six months;
A. For a license as a grocer, a sum not
less than two dollars for one year or one dol
lar for six months.
Sec. Z. The Assistant Judges Of the sever
i'll COunt( COURTS slitll nave power W SldlI
licenses as is hereinafter provided and all Ii
censes so granted, shall be signed by the Clerk
Of the County Court, and recorded in the
County Clerks office and all such licenses
shall authorize the party therein named, to
sell according to the terms thereof.
All licenses granted under the provisions Of
this act, shall m on the first day of
May, or November, and shall terminate on
the last day of April and no license shall be
granted for a longer term than one year.
See. 8. No person shall receive a license,
until he shall have paid the sun in which he
shall have been assessed, and the sum Of fifty
cents in addition, as fees for said license I;
and no license shall be e~tfectual until such
payment.
The Clerk shall receive all monies paid
for licenses and fees, and shall, within thirty
days after granting any license, pay over to
the County Treasurer, the sum received for
such licenses, together with the sum of thirty
three cents, out of the fees paid thereon and
all licenses granted under this act shall deS-
ignate the house or store, and the town in
which the person receiving the same, shall
be authorized to pursue the business for
which he is licensed and shall not be con-
strued to authorize such business to be carried
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except that designated in the license.
Sec. 8 A meeting of the inhabitants of
every town in this State, who are voters in
town and freemen's meeting, shall be holden
at the usual place of holding town meetings,
on the first Tuesday in March, A. ID. 1847,
and each year thereafter, at one o'clock in
the afternoon, which meetings shall be warn
ed, and governed, in all respects, as provided
in chapter thirteen of the Revised Statutes,
entitled, " of Towns and Villages" and con-
tinue open until five o'clock, 2 NJ.
Sec. 10. At such meeting the constable, or
in his absence, ore of the Selectmcn, or if on
the day of the annual election Of town officers,
the moderator of such meeting shall preside,
and receive the ballots of the freemcn, upon
which shall be written or printed, either the
word License, or the words No License and
the ballots thus deposited, shall by the con-
stable, SeIectmen or moderator, assisted by
such Justices of the tow as may be present,
be publicly sorted, counted and declared
The town clerk, or some one or more of the
civil authority of the town, shall be present at
the meeting. and record the names of all the
persons voting, and the same shall be kept on
file, in the town clerks office.
Sec. IL. The town clerk in each town, af-
ter the votes or ballots shall have been so count
ed, shall make a record thereof, in the town
book of records, and shall within six days
from the first Tuesday in March, transmit a
copy of such record, daily certified and sealed
up, to the Clerk of the County in which such
town may be situated.
Sec. II. The several County Clerks shall,
on the second Tuesday in March, publicly
canvass the votes so certified and returned to
them and within three days thereafter, trans
nit to the Secretary of State, at Montpelier,
by mail, or otherwise, a certificate of the
votes, by towns, so canvassed and the Sec
rotary of State. shall on the third Thursday
after the first Tuesday in March, at 'ome con.
%venient place in Montpelier, publicly canvas;
the votes so returned to him by the County
) Clerks, and make proclamation of the result
of the vote, in the entire State, underh his owl
signature and the seal of this State, in all Of