The organizer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1849-05-12
remarkable Temperan.s Law,


Transactions. Il requires all persons
who would vend or retail "spirituoui
$ liquors" to give bond TO the tOwI
I authorities, with three sureties, il
one thousand dollars, conditioned Il
pay all damages Che community Of
individuals may sustain BY reason o
: such traffic; to support all Paupers
c widows, and orphans; pay the ex'
penses of all civil and criminal pro
secutlnns made, growing out Of. OF
fliustly Attributable to, such traffic.
} And it is made the duty of the officer
holding the bond to deliver it to ''any
/ person who may claim to be injured
: by said traffic. We quote the re.
} naming provisions entire:
5 4. IL shall be lawful for any mar
ried woman to institute, in her own
name, suit on any such bond. for
all damages sustained by herself or
children. on account Of such traffic
and the money, when collected. shall
be paid over TO her, for the use Of
herself and children.
5. No suits for liquor bills shall
be entertained by any Of the courts
Of this State; and whenever IL shall
be made to appear 20 any court, be.
fore which suit may be pending,
on proinissory note, that such note
was given in whole or in part for
liquor bills, such court shall immed-
lately dismiss such suit at the costs
of the plaintiff.
6. On the trial Of any suit under
the provisions of this act, the cause
or foundation of which shall be the
act Of an individual under the i'm
fluence of liquor, it shall only be ne
cessary, in order to sustain the ac>
ton, to prove that the principal in
the bond sold or gave liquor to the
person $50 intoxicated or in liquor
whose acts are complained of, on the |
day previous to the commission of
the offence.
; q Whenever a person shall be.
come a county, city, or village charge, !
by reason of incompetence, a suit
may be instituted by the proper auth
critics on the bond of any person
who may have been in the habit of
selling or giving liquor to such per-
son or pauper so becoming a public
charge.
; s. Amy person against whom a
Judgment may be obtained, under the
provision of this act, shall be entitled
70 maintain a suit to compel a contri- .
button towards paying the judgment
against him, against all persons en-
ragged in such traffic in such county, /,
'ity, town, or village, who may have =
old or given liquor 10 such person !,
an offence or becoming .
public charge. (
o. Any person who shall vend or /
etail, or, sfor the purpose Of avoid b
lg the provisions Of this act, give n
way spirituOus liquors without first I
wing the bond required by the first a
action of this act. shall be deemed G
Utility of misdemeanor. and, upon I,
Dnviction thereof, shall be fined in
sum of not less than fifty nor more
ian five hundred dollars, and be i'm. a,
Iisoned in the county Jail not less Al
ian ten days nor more than six N
ontEs, and shall be liable in al N
ispects to the public and to indi- RI
duals the same as he would have i,
zen had he given the bond required y
the first section Of this act. io
This remarkable expression Of pub
, opinion in Wisconsin on the sub. 81
ct of "spiriiuous liquors.. passed Va
Q Senate BY vote Of 10 to ; and z,
e Assembly 20 70 en- Il goegsomc "
cps beyond any legislation on the Sc
blect ia. the country.--yRaL InL W
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he London correspondent ofthc Bos- de
n Atlas says that, at recent meets i'm
z Of the Royal Institution, paper Sc
as read, announcing a discovery BY No
cans of which carbonic acid gas Is an
piled 10 the exfingnishment of fres %
th complete success. Il Is said 70 a
making considerable talk among Sc
Iontilic men The following is Civ ns
asian abstract ofthe papers oh
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ut Of destruction; IL occasions a'Fi- 90
mt draught, intense heat, and mp CO.
s. generates sui ting and noxions SCI
S. For is existence q constant Ne
pply Of pure air is necessary, as.well his
a constant temperature. To pre- boi