Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-30

exactly Whist | propose to talk about, 7o,i vii
please insert the following Synopsis Of the Main
Lac, which | take from the Journal of tn
American Temperance Union, of last month
(Secti0n -
The manufacturing and sale of Intoxicating
liquors are entirely prohibited, except as Above
in the next section.
TOWN AGENT.
(Section ., 8, ~
/. The civil authorities of town or city ma,
appoint annually an Agent to sell liquors, onll
for medicinal and mechanical purpose.
?. Instead of the profits OF sale, he is to hav'
annual salary.
8. He may hold his office for his one year
subject at all times to dismissal.
4. He must give bonds with two good sure
ties, to the amount Of 5000, that he will conform
to the regulations prescribed.
5. If he violates the law, he shall be turnot
OF, of office, and his bonds sued in the name AM
at the expense of the city or town.
PENALTIES FoR THE ILLEGAL SALE.
(StctS. 1, 5, g.
/. For the first offence, $40 and costs, ant
2. For the second offence, $50 and costs anC
imprisonment ill paid.
8. For the third and each succeeding offence
$40 and imprisonment from three to six months
If unable to pay, he shall not have the benefit
Of chapter l75 of the Revised Statutes wiz, OF
being released from prison after 80 days, or
giving his note for the fine and costs) until he
has been imprisoned two or four months.
i. The prosecutions may be tried before any
magistrate in the county.
5. The fine shall 90 for the use of the poor
6. The prosecutor may be witness in the
trial.
7. If the prosecution be begun under the
approval Of sclcctman or alderman, the defend
ant shall not recover costs though acquitted.
8. Appeals from a conviction rendered shall
be allowed only on the following conditions
(a) The appellant must first give bond fol
5000 with two sureties, to sustain his appeal
o. He must also give another bond of $500
with two suretes, not to violate the law while
the appeal is pending. And if the bonds are not
given in "a hours after conviction, the appeal is
not to be allowed
CO., He must pay the fees in advance, Of the
jury who are to try him.
a. If the appeal is finally decided agains
him, he must submit t. the double amount OIL
fines, penalties, and Imprisonment first inpos-
cd.
(Sect. s.
Any person convicted of being a manufacture
or common seller of intoxicating drinks shall
forfeit
For the first offence, $500 and costs, and ii
defaultof payment 60 days imprisonment;
For the second offence. $500 and costs, or
months Imprisonment:
For the third and every succeeding offence
both fine of 5000 and also four months impris.
onment.
SEIZURES OF LIQUORS KEFT FOR SALE.
Secs. II, II, 10.
/. Any three voters in town or city may &c
before a magistrate, and make oath that he be-
leireS liquors Eepttov sale, contrary to law, in
any store, shop, &c.
,. The magistrate shGH (not m!y) issue u
search warrant for them,
g. The sheriff or constable shall search the
premises, and if any liquors are found shall take
them away to place of security. He shall not,
however, search any dwelling house, unless a
shops kept in it, or unless one of the complain
ants shall testify to some act Of sale in it, within
one month preCe ling.
4. He shall also summon tho owner or keep
cr Of the liquors, if he be known, 10 appear
forthwith before the magistrate.
5. The owner or keepers must then prove
positively
(a). That said liquors are of foreign produc-
ductton:
%. That they have been imported according
to the laws of the United States
(c). That they are in the original packages,
(cask, bottle, &c } and are not in less quantities
than the IT, s. law prescribes. Butin order to
prove this, he shall not aIduce the custom-house
certificates of importation. nor the marks on the
casks or packages, Gall these being VIGOROUSLY
often forged)
6. 1.-The cannot prove all these, or if he fails
to appear, then
(q). The liquors shall be destroyed;
(b). The owners or keepers shall be fined $40
and costs, ard in case of non-Payment be impris-
oned 80 days.
:. II the owner or keepers of the liquors be
unknown, the liquors shall be publicly destroyed,
two weeks after which, it no town agent proves
that they are his according 10 section p they shall
be destroyed.
8. Appeals from the magistrates orders for
the destruction ofthe liquors shall not be allow
ed, till the appellant has given a bond of 5000
with two sureties, to prosecute his appeal, pay
fines, &c.
8. If the appeal shall be decided against him.
and the quantity Of liquors exceeds five gallons,
he shall be Judged common selLsr Of intoxica-
ting liquors, and incurs the penalties prescribed
for that offence. The liquors also shall! De de-
stroyed.
10. Chemists, artists, and manufactures who
use liquors in their business only are exempt
from prosecution.
LIQUORS KEPT FOX SALE on PUBLIC o1cA-
sIoNs.
(Ssc,s. IA, $50
/. Liquors sold or kept in any tent, shanty,