Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-31
Liqaer Agency Law.


passed by the recent Legislature, Concerning
the purchase and sale of intoxicating liquors for
town agents.:
Sec. |. Whoever may be appointed by the gov
eTnor. by and with the advice and consent OF the
council to purchase and sell spurious or intoxi-
eating liquors to the several agents, appointed or
( to be appointed under the provisions of chap 41O
of the acts passed in the yeaI one Thousand eight
! hundred and fifty five, entitled AN act con
corning the purchase and sale OF spirtuous and
Intoxicating liquors, being chap 40 of the acts
Of said year shall hold Office for the space Of one
year from the date of his commission, and until
| a successor shall be duly commissioned and quail
fled in his stead, unless sooner removed by the
governor.
Sec. 2 All spurious or Intoxicating liquors
kept for sale BY the commissioner appointed for
the purpose aforesaid shall be analysed by one OF
the State assayers, and such commissioner shall
sell no sprituous or intoxicating liquors except
such of said assayers shall, in writing, GER
tify to be pure the expense Of such analysis,
which shall not exceed one per cent. of the cost
of the liquor snail be paid by the commissioner,
and may be by him charged part of the cost Of
the liquor.
Sec. 3. In case of the death or removal Of the
commissioner, or person appointed for the pur-
pose aforesaid, and the appointment OF a success
sor, such successor shall purchase his predeces-
| sor's stock of spirituous intoxicating liquors
| which shall have been analysed and certified as
| aforesaid, to an an amount not exceeding twelve
thousand dollars.
| See. If the parties cannot agree upon the
value Of the liquors to be purchased, the same
shall be fixed and determined by three persons,
| one to be appointed by the person purchasing,
one by the person owning the liquors, and the
| third by the two so appointed and their ap'
| praisal SHALL be binding on both the parties.
Sec. 3. The commissioner or person appointed
for the purpose aforesaid shall annually, on or
before the fifteenth day Of October, report to the
| Secretary of the Commonwealth the amount OF
sales of liquors to the city and town agents IN
| detail; the cost thereof his commissions, eX-
| penses and profits thereon designating also the
| critics and towns which shall not have made pur-
| chases of him. The account shall be made up to
| the last day of the preceding month 1t shall be
\ printed by the Secretary, and included with the
| public series of documents, and laid before the
| Legislature.
Sec g. The person so appointed is hereby
thorzed to appoint from time to time, agents for
the sale of pure liquors to be used for chemical,
mechanical, medicinal and manufacturing pur.
poses within the city of Boston, with the same
| powers and liabilities, and subject to the same
obligations with The agents appointed by the Be-
| lectmen Of towns, and the Mayors and Aldermen
of cities, by the provision OF section five, of chap
| ter two hundred and fifteen of the acts OF the
! year thousand eight hundred and hfty-hye,
and such person shall appoint so many OF such
agents. not exceeding hve-as he shall think the
interest OF Jne cltlZeDS OF tue City VI DOStuH
require: provided, that the authority of such
agents shall not continue after the person by
whom they are appointed shall have ceased to
hold office, and the persons appointed shall
sell such pure liquors at the lowest cash market
prices.
Sec 7. Every city and town agent appointed
according to the provisions of law, for the sale Of
spurious and intoxicating liquors, shall annual
ly. on or before the 18th day of October in each
year. make a return to the Secretary of State of
the amount and kind Of liquors purchased by him
such agent, with the date OF each purchase
and the price paid for the same, together with
the name of the party from whom purchased.
Sac. g. Any city or town agent failing to make
such return is provided in the preceding
ton, shall forfeit and pay fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, to be recovered by complaint
indictment before any court competent to try the
same.
Sec 9. The Mayor and Aldermen Of any city
and the Selectmen of every town in the Common
wealth shall annually appoint agent or agents
for the sale of pure spirituous and intoxicating
liquors, for medicinal. mechanical, mannfactur-
ing, and chemical purposes according to the pro-
visions of the law.