Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-02-08
THE BUCKALEW Law.

THE BUCKALEW Law.
An Act to protect certain domestic and pri-
rate rights, and preuent abuses IN the sale and
use OF o{antoricating drinks
SECTION L. Be 1t enacted de-, That viii
fully furnishing intoxicating drinks by sale,
gift or otherwise to any person of known in
temperate habits, to minor, or to any insane
person for use as beverage shall be held and
deemed misdemeanor. and upon conviction
thereof the offender shall be fined not less
than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and un
dergo an imprisonment of not less than ten
nor more than sixty days, and the wilful fur
nishing of Intoxicating drinks as beverage to
any person when drunk or intoxicated shall be
deemed q misdemeanor, punishable as afore-
said.
Sec. 2 That it shall be lawful for any
member of the family, or blood relation of an
incorporate person, or any oyerseer of the
poor, or any magistrate of the district in
which such Incorporate person resides, or has
legal settlement, or the committee of habit
ual drunkard, to give q distinct notice, yer-
bal or written, to any inn-keeper, merchant,
grocer, distiller, brewer or other person man
ufacturing, selling or having intoxicating Ii
quors, forbidding him or them from furnish
ing such Incorporate person or habitual DRINK
ara Will lutOAicdtiuS uIluhS VI HqQoIS anu II,
within three months after such notice, any
any one to whom the same is given shall fur
nish or cause to be furnished intoxicating IL
quors to such Incorporate person or habitual
drunkard to be used as beverage, he shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished as
provided in the first section of this act.
SEC 3. Thatany person furnishing intoxi-
eating drinks to or any other person IN VIOLA
ton of any existing law, or of the provisions
of this act. shall be held eiyily responsible for
any injury to person or property IN conse-
quence of such furnishing, and any one ag-
grieved may recover full damages against
such person so furnishing, by action on the
case instituted in any court having jurisdic-
ton of such form of action in this Common
wealth.
SEC. 4. That any judge, justice or clergy
man who shall perform the marriage ceremony
between parties when either of said parties is
intoxicated, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
pay fine of fifty dollars, and be imprisoned
at the discretion of the court not exceeding
sixty days.
SEC. 5. That any wilful adulteration and
corruption of spirituous, yinous or malt IL
quors manufactured or intended as a beverage,
whereby the same are rendered essentially
unwholesomc, noxious andinjurious to health,
or any sale of such liquors for use as bever-
age, with knowledge that the same is SO adul-
terated and corrupted, shall subject the Often
der for a first offence to a fine of fifty dollars,
and for second and subsequent offence to a
fine of one hundred dollars, aud Imprisonment
notexceeding sixty days.
SEC 6. Any person prosecuting for an
offence indictable under this act shall, upon
conviction of the offender, receive such rea-
sonable sum for expenses, services and time
expended, as may be directed by the court not
exceeding twenty dollars, to be taxed and paid
as part of the costs in the cause, such allow
ance to be exclusive of compensation to such
prosecutor as a witness under existing laws.
Providcd, That such allowance shall not be
made in more than one case at the same term
to one person.
SEC. Z. That no action shall be maintain
ed or recovery had in any case for the value of
liquors sold in violation of this or any other
act, and defence may be taken in any case
against such recovery without special plea or
notice.
SEC 8 That it shall be lawful for the
courts of quarter sessions to revoke any licenses
they may haye granted or that may have been
granted under the general law regulating Ii
censes In the city and county of Philadelphia,
for the sale of liquors whenever the party hol-
ding license shall be proved to have violated
any law of this Commonwealth, relating to
the sale of liquors, or whenever the premises
ofsuch party shall become the resort of idle
and disorderly persons so as to disturb the
general peace of the neighborhood, upon
notice given to the person SO licensed.