New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-10
BROOKLYN ITEMS.

LIcEEsEs-By an oversight we allowed our
Brooklyn Reporter to state in Fridays Tribune
that the Hotels in Brooklyn would be compelled to
sell rum and pay the penalty for violation Of the
Excise Laws or close business IL is scarcely
necessary to say that The Tribune holds no such
doctrine a Hotel that cannot live without rum is
no longer Hotel, but a grogshop, uncaled for and
injurious to the People, and the sooner it is com
PEELED to close the better it will be for the com.
munity. We hope the People Of Brooklyn will
put the report which we publish below in
speedy aud full effect, and rid themselves of the
foul disgrace and enormous expense now put upon
them by the hundreds Of pauPer. making life
destroying rumholes that tester within their
borders:
The License Committee, to whom have been re.
ferred several applications for tavern licenses,
REPORT,
That they have deemed expedieni before proceeding
decide upon The PrOPhely o. granting or refusing par
he Common Council TO settle certain general principles
by which their seuon upon such applications .hs In al
cases be governed. The subject naturally divides itself
into TWO branches;
FhIt-As 10 the extent Of the powers Of The Common
Council 70 grant tavern licenses
Seeondks to the extent to which ia expeaieni to exer
TIE rowers Of the Common Council to grant tavern T.
eepses are derived iom the ssh section Of the City Char
Ter which provides that "The Common Council Of the
CITY, such Of Ineir number In conjunction with the
Esyor they may designate for thai purpose, shall be
Ccfnninoners OF Excise FOR the City, and SUCH may
grant licenses TO tavern keepers and groces TO cell quor
or the cases and IN the manner prescribed IN ne
Revised Statutes Of this STATE.
The provisions Of that part OF the Revised Statutes which
prescrbes the and In which such licenses
Re granted contained IN the e relayeto Excse ald
the regulsron Of syens and groceries, Revised Statutes
page e5 % "a. Ssv s noer 10 rs,s
cerses 10 keepers Of Ina and T1Se being residents OF
their Town 10 se strong and spliiuous liquors and wines
10 be drank In lheir houses respectively. Section TO
tusrs and limits The general powers conferred BY section
4 uSfollows:
cerfes shall no; be granted any person sell strong
ard spuiuous eu0rs Ard wines 10 be dra 10 tue hJ1ss
ofhe uness such pergcn proposes 10 ep al INK or
sve,u or xess The Commissioners are safed that the
lie OF osod moru character; that he 10 OF sufficient
abniy keep Ayern and has ne ne,efsaTy aeoon1od1
0ns 10 enferGia TGteersi snd mat tGEern 70 absolutely
a,ef,gq,t for the defuai Gcc0Nm0ddn Of Jdre>TS a. TIC
place where such applicant resides or proposes 10 keep the
same ..s.. ~, ..u.s,.s. - s.., ,.vs-,. ma r..
grated without inclrding license to sell suong and
tpifiucus liquors or wines or alcoholic drinks and 10 all
r. ana no sun OF money or fec for sach cense shall DO
reoue ed or taken" This lsst section passed In 1888
as an amendment Of the excise law.
sec 50 provides That a. oenses against the prsviEoas
Of his e shall be deeGsd misdeneanors punishable By
fine ard Imprisonment
It Slso provided In tie Revised Statutes page 5 third
edition that any duty ia shs be eniOes by law,
on any public Officer or upon sny person holding pub
he trust employment every wlfun neglect 70 perform
sue dufv where special provision shall have been made
for he punshneni Of such delinqaeucy shall be nsie-
ueauor ard when the performances OF act u prohibited
Iv sry sAnte ard penalty for the violation Of such
NE imposed either N The same section containing such
prohibition in any other secuon or statute tie doing
such Or act shall be deemed q misdsueAnor.
Ifis manifest thai under these statutes, tie powers OF
COmmissOnes q Excise 10 grant tavern H--uses, ars
strictly limited They prohibited from granting such L.
cerses except In certain specified and they do
Rranf Them In other they not only guilty Of vo-
son Of their ofcia duty and Official oah bar are snbecf
10 DC punished crimnss By ms ard Imprisonment Ia
whsi eases ihen the Comnlss Of Excise allowed
BY grant tavern heensesf They 0e ss1sf 3D.
lsi THAI The applicant proposes 10 keep ina