Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-04-16
EBENsBURG, APRIL Is, 1856.

any appointment or classification being SCI
aside, the said board shall proceed to correc
the same, according to the order of said Cour
and if an appeal from any license shall be sus
tanned, they shall return from the applica.
tions already made such as may be most mer-
itorious, subject however, to an appeal in like
! manner, and from time to time, as may be
| necessary.
Sec. le That appeals from any apportion-
ment, classification or grant of license by said
board, may be taken to the Court of Guar
ter Sessions of the r,raner. county. Pro4idea
lIhaS the exceptions thereto shall be IN writing
and sustained by oath or affirmation, and shall
be filed in said Office within five days after
the return, but no appeal shall be taken to
any apportionment as aforesaid, unless the
exceptions thereto shall be signed by at least
twelve citizens of the ward or township, or
borough affected thereby. And if exceptions
to the granting of any license as aforesaid
shall be sustained by said court, the decision
of said court shall state upon which of said
exceptions the said license may be refused,
and shall be endorsed upon the petition and
returned by the clerk of said court to the
board of licensers.
Sec 90 That after the lapse of five days
as aforesaid, or as said appeals shall be deter
mined by the court, the said clerk shall make
out and issue to the proper persons said icen-
ses, which shall run for one year from the 1st
day of May, but no license shall be issued un-
less the applicant shall have paid the follow
ing fees, to wit TO the clerk of said court,
for publication of notice and petitions, and
for all other services, one dollar and for all
the services of the board of licensers one dol
lar, which latter amount shall be accounted
for, and paid over weekly, to the respective
treasurers of said city or county, to defray
the necessary expenses incurred by said board
for advertising, stationary. and otherwise
Each member of said board of hcensers shall
receive five dollars for each day necessarily
occupied by him IN the discharge of his duties
Provided, That it shall not exceed, in any
one year, the sum of five hundred dollars,
and shall be paid upon warrants on the State
Treasurer, drawn by the Auditor General in
favor of the parties entitled to the same
Sec. q. That if any person shall give, be-
stow or promise any money, reward, office, or
anything of value to any member of said board
of lcensers for the purpose of influencing his
action in granting any such license, or if any
member of said board shall accept the same
for his vote or influence therein, any person
so offending shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
dep,eanor, and on copyictior, thereof he fined
IA sum not less than one hundred dollars,
nor more than five hundred dollars and suffer
imprisonment not less than one month nor
more than three months.
Sec. %. That every person licensed to sell |,
spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors un- |
der this act, shall frame his license under a |
glass, and place the same SO that it may at all |
times be conspicuous in his chief place of ma |
king sales, and no such license shall authorize |
sales by any person who shall neglect this re-
quirement.
Sec %. That the Commissioners of the |
several counties and Board of Lieensers shall |
furnish a certified list of all persons so ap- !
praised with the classification as made out and |
inally determined upon, to the treasurers of
their respective counties, or of the city of |
Philadelphia, as the case may be, who shall
within twenty days thereafter, transmit to the
Auditor General a copy of such list, and shall
receive and collect the sums to be paid for
said licenses in the manner directed by law,
With any fees payable thereon.
Sec. "a. That it shall be the duty of the
Auditor General to charge the said city or
county Treasurers, as the case may be, with
he amount payable by che several persons in
aid lists. from the payment of any part of
which amount said Treasurers shall only be
by producing satisfactory evidence
o the Department that the party or parties
70 returned failed to obtain license as afore-
aid
Sec. 25 That it shall be the duty of the
Auditor General to return to the legislature
in the month Of January, state
aent, arranged in tabular form, of the num-
'er and classification and license rates of all
Importers, brewers and distilleries, keepers of !
otels, inns or tayerns, eating houses, and
enders Of vinous, spirituous and malt or {
rewed liquors, either with or without other {
oods, wares and merchandise, designating {
ach county separately. '
Sec. 26. That where any license may be ]
ranted, as aforesaid. under the c1assi6cations {
f the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth sec {
ons Of this act, it shall not be transferable t
or shall it confer the right to sell liquors as
foresaid, in any other house, building, or '
lace, than the one mentioned and described {
I the license, nor shall the bar or any apart
lent SO called, or used, be underlet but if '
lie party so licensed shall die, remove or
ease to keep said hotel, inn, tavern, eating &
ouse, or store, the said court, or board of Ii f
snsers, may grant license for the remainder q
the year, at any term of the court, to his '
her successor, who shall comply with the
w in other respects, except so far as relates c
publishing of notice. t
SEC. 27. That the number of licenses so
ranted to keepers of hotels, inns, or taverns, S
the aggregate, shall not exceed in the cit a
S one to every one hundred taxables, nor in r
e several counties of the State one to every Il
lie hundred and fifty taxables, the number d
said taxabies to be taken from the returns b
the preceding year, and it shall be the du- ?
of the courts of quarter sessions of the re- a
ective counties (the city of Philadelphia and