Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-21
The PENNSYLVANIA Liquor Law.
IS passea By both Houses Of the Legislature.

An Act to Restrain the Scle Of Intoxicating
Liquors.
s |. Be it enacted, g., That from and after
the first day of October next, it shall be I'M
lawful to keep or maintain any house. room or
place where vinous, spirituouS, malt or brewed
liquors, or any admiXturc thereof arc sold and
drank except as hereinafter provided; and all
laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
s 2 That if any person or persons within
this commonwealth shall keep for sale, and sell,
or in conneYion with any other business or pro-
fitable employment give, receiving therefor any
price, profit or advantage by any measure what
ever, and at the same time voluntarily afford
place, or any other convenience or inducemGnt
by which the same may be used as a beverage,
any vnous, spritous, malt or brewed liquor, or
any admiXture thereof, he, she or they, and any
one aiding, abcting or assisting therein, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon cons
viction, shall be sentenced to pay fine not
exceeding fifty dollars, and undergo an impris-
onment not exceeding one month, and for
second or any subsequent offence shall pay a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and
undergo imprisonment not exceeding three
months.
S 8. That if any two or more persons con-
spire, or act together, by which one may sell,
and the other provide a place or other con-
venience for drinking, with intent to eyade the
provisions of this act, each one so offending,
upon conviction, shall be punished as provided
in the second section of this act.
s 4. That it shall be unlawful for any per-
sons to sell or keep for sale any ynous, spirit
vnI ar N ID StT
thereof, in cases not hereinbcfore prohibited, in
less quantity than one quart, nor without
license granted by the Court of Quarter
Sessions of the proper county, on petition pre-
sented for that puposc, to be advertised accord
ing to the frstsection of the act of the twenty
ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one, supplementary to the various
acts relating to tavern licenses but no such
license shall be granted to other than citizens
of the United States, of temperate habits and
good rcpute for honesty: Prorided, That no
certificate shall be required or published as
mentioned in the act herein referred to Pro
ridcd That no license for the sale Of liquors
as aforesaid, shall be granted to the keeper of
any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, eating
house. oyster-house or cellar, theatre or other
places of entertainment, amusement or refresh
ment
S 5. That the said court, by their rules,
shall fix time at which applications for said
license shall be heard, at which time all persons
making objections shall be heard.
s 6. That it shall not be lawful for the clerk
of said court to issue any license as aforesaid,
until the applicant shall have filed the bond
hereinafter required, and the certificate of the
City Receiver or County Treasurer, that the
license fee has been paid to him.
S I. That the appraisers of licenses under
this act shall be appointed as provided by exist
ing laws, except in the city of Philadelphia
after at the beginning of every year. three re-
putable and temperate persons shall be appoint
ed by the Court of Quarter Sessions to appraise
dealers in spirituous, vinouS, malt or brewed
liquors aforesaid, and of distillerS and brewers,
and to do and perform all duties now enjoined
by law not inconsistent herewith and said
appraisers shall be citizens of the United States
in no manner connected with, or interested ir
the liquor business, and shall be compensated
as now provided by law.
s g. That no license shall be granted with
out the payment to the Receiver Of Taxes o
the city of Philadelphia or to the Treasurer
of the other counties of the State for the use
of the Commonwealth, three times the amount
now fixed by law, to be paid by venderS o.
spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or brewers
and distilicrs Proridcd, That no license sha
be granted for less sum than thirty dollars
s 9. That the bond required to be taken o
all persons who shall receive license to sell
spirituous, yinous, malt or brcwed liquors, OF
any admixture thereof, shall be in one thousand
dollars, conditioned for the faithful observance
&c Ill IL of fl ol,,@;,
to the business of vending such liquors, with
two sufficient suretieS, and warrantof attorneys
to confess Judgment which bond shall be ap
proved by one of the Judges of the Court O
Quarter Sessions Of the peace of the proper
county, and to be filed in said court anC
whenever Judgment for any forfeiture or fine
shall have been recovered against the principa
therein, it shall be lawful for the district at
torney, of the proper county, toenter iudgmen
against the obligors in the said bond, and pro
coed to collect the same of the said principa
or surctieS.
10. That every person licensed to sci
spirtuous, vnouS or malt liquors as aforesaid
shall frame his license under glass, and place
the same SO that it may at all times be con
spicuous in his chief place of making sales
and no license shall authorize sales by any per
son who shall neglect this requirement, no
shall any license authorize the sale of an,
spirtuous, vnous or malt liquors on Sunday.
s H. That any sale made of any spirituou
vinous or malt liquor contrary to this act, shal
be taken to be mislemeanor and, upon con
yiction of the offence in the Court OF Quarter
Sessions of the proper county shall be punish
ed in the manner prescribed in the second sec
ton of this act.
s H. That the provisions of this act, as tc
appraisement and license, shall not extend tt
importers who shall vcnd or dispose of sale
liquors in the original eases or packages as i'm
ported, nor to duly commissioned auctonecr.
selling at public vendue Or outcry, nor to brewer
or distillers selling in quantities not less than