The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-03-10

orfciturc, shall issue to the officer having
said liquor in custody, or to some other pro
per officer, written order, directing him TO
deliver said liquor and the vessels containing
IT TO some AGENT duly appointed for the sale
Of Intoxicating liquors IN the city, town,
township, or precinct of the county where
said iqnor was seized, or in case there be no
such agent in said city, town, township, or
precinct, then to come other such agent in
some other city, town, township, Or pre-
cinct in the same county, which order the
said officer, after obcyng the commands
thereof, shall return to said court with his
doings thereon indorscd Said agent shall
receive said liquor and vessels and II, in his
opinion, the same, or any part thereof, be
fit 20 he sold for any lawful uses, he shall
sell the same, or such part thereof, in the
course Of his agency, for the benefit Ell the
city, town or county, as the case may be,
wherein the same were seized ; and il, in his
opinion, the same or any part thereof, be
not fit to be sold, he shall destroy the same,
or such part thereof. Whenever it shall be
finally decided that any liquor so seized is
not liable to forfeiture, the court so deciding
shall issue Il written order to the officer hay-
ing the same in custody, or to some other
proper officer, to restore said liquor, with
the vessels containing it, to the place where
it was seized, as nearly as may be, or to the
person entitled to receive it, which order,
the said officer, after obeying the commands
thereof, shall return to said court with his
doings thereon indorscd. And the costs of
the proceedings in such case shall be taxed
and paid by the city, town or county where
in said liquor was SO seized.
10. Whenever any officer authorized to
commence aprosccution for violation Of
the ninth section of this act, shall in any
way receive notice that liquor has been sci
zed upon warrant issued pursuant to the
twelfth section of this act, said officer shall
Immediately cause prosecution for violation
of said ninth section to be commenced before
the justice or police magistrate who issued
said warrant against the person named in
said warrant as the owner, or keeper, or
carrier of the liquor to be seized, unless
such prosecution shall have been already
commenced by some other proper officer.
sl6 A complaint under the twelfth sec
ton of this act may be in form, substantial
ly, as follows:
$50 A. b., Esq, justice Of the peace of
the county OF -, or police magistrate of
the city of -, las the case may bel The
complaint of the undersigned PRESIDENT in
said -, of full age, showeth that in a
certain place in said =, to wit there in
sert description Of shop, house, OF other
place, describing the same as nearly
as may be, certain liquor, to wit: here
insert description Of liquor as nearly as may
bel is owned or kept las the case may bel by
Z. d., in the -, in the county of -,
and is intended by said c. d., to be sold or
given away in violation of the act Of 1856,
entitled San act for the suppression Of in
temperance, and to amend chapter thirty Of
the Revised Statutes" and against the peace
and dignity Of the people of the State Of H.
linois. Wherefore, these compliments pray
your honor, to issue warrant Of search,
that said place may be searched, and said L.
quor seized and disposed of according to
law.
Dated at -, this - day Of -.