The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-05-20
The Maine Law.

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SECTION l. No person shall be allow
ed, at any time, to manufacture or sell,
or suffer to be manufactured or sold by
any person, any spirituOns or intoxicating
liquors or any mixed liquors, part Of
which is spirituous or intoxicating, except
as hereafter provided.
Sec. 2. The town council of any town
may, and the mayor and alderman of any
city shall, annually, on the Monday next
following the annual election of town
and city officers in any town or city, or
as soon thereafter as may be convenient,
appoint some one or two suitable person.
or persons, as the agent or agents of said
town or city, to sell at some central or
convenient place within said town or
city, spirits, wines, or other intoxicating
liquors to be used for medicinal and
mechanical purposes only: and said
agent shall receive such compensation
for his services, and shall, in the sale Of
such liquors, conform to such rules and
regulations, as the town council or may
or and aldermen, as aforesaid, shall pre-
scribe. Any such agent appointed as
aforesaid, shall hold his situation for one
year, unless sooner removed by the
board from which he received his ap-
pointment, as he may be at any time, at
the pleasure of said board: and in case
of vacancy in said appointment by such
removal, or otherwise, said board may
appoint some other person to such agen-
cy for the remainder of the year.
| SEC. 3. Any such agent shall receive
a certificate from the town council, or
mayor and aldermen, by whom he has
been appointed, authorizing him, as the
agent of such town or city, to sell intox-
icating liquors for medicinal and me-
chanical purposes, only: but such GER
tifcate shall not be delivered to the per-
son so appointed, until he shall have
executed and delivered to said board, a
bond with good and sufficient sureties,
in the sum of six hundred dollars, in
substance as follows:
Know all men that we as
principal, aud - as sureties, are
holden and stand firmly bound to the
inhabitants of the town of (orl
city of as the case may be-
lin the sum of six hundred dollars, to be
paid them: to which payment We bind
ourselves, our heirs, executors and ad-
ministrators, firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our seals, and dated this
day of A. ID. The con-
dition of this obligation is such, that
whereas the above bounden has
been duly appointed an agent for the
town (or city of to sell within
and for and on account of said town (or
city, intoxicating liquors for medicinal
and mechanical purposes, only, until the
day of A. d. ,,
unless sooner removed from said agency.
Now if the said shall in all re-
spects, conform to the provisions of the
law relating to the business for which he
is appointed, and to such rules and reg
ulations, as now are, or shall be from
time to time established by the board
making the appoiptment, then this OBJ
legation shall be void otherwise it shall
remain in full force.
Sec. A. IF any person shall at any
time sell, or suffer to be sold by any
person, any spurious or intoxicating
liquors, or any mixed liquors, part of
which is Intoxicating, in violation of the
provisions of this act, he shall forfeit
and pay on the first conviction, the sum
of twenty dollars and on the second
conviction the sum of twenty dollars :
and on the third and every subsequent
conviction, he shall forfeit and pay the
sum of twenty dollars and shall be i'm
prisoncd not less than three months,
nor more than six months.
SEC. 5. Any forfeiture or penalty
arising under the fourth section of this
act, may be recovered by,complaint and
warrant in the name Of the State, before
any Justice of the peace, or any court
exercising the jurisdiction of a justice of
the peace, in the town or city where the
offence was committed: onc-half of said
forfeiture to and for the use OF the COM
plainant, and the other half thereof to
and for the use of the State: and the
prosecutor and complainant by waving
in favor of the State his portion of the
penalty may be admitted as a witness in
the trial: and no judgement rendered
upon subsequent complaint for the
same offence, shall be bar, or prevent
judgement upon the merits being rcnd-l