Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-05-11
Adultcrating Liquors,
AN act to Prevent the Adulteration of Spirituous
Liquors in this State


AN act TO Prevent the Adulteration Of Spirtuous
Liquors in this State.
SECTION l. BE IL enacted By the General assembly
Of the State Of Tennessee, That the adulteration Of
sprtIous or vinous liquors by the use of strychnine
or other poisonous liquids or ingredients shall be
and the same is hereby declared felony.
Sac. 2. BE IL further enacted, That any person
who shall in this State be guilty of the offence of
adulterating spirtuous or vrous liquors. or selling
the same knowing it to be adultersted by or with
strychnine or other pisonous liquids ingredients,
upon conviction in any of the Criminal or Circuit
Courts Of this State shrll be imprisoned in the Pen-
tentiary of this State not less Il an one year nor
more than five.
SEC. 3. BE il further enacted, That any one who
shall be guilty OF selling TO any person in this State
By retail or wholesale, any spirtuous or vinous
liquors adulterated as stated in the two preceding
sections Of this Act shall incur all the penalties an
nexed 10 the second section OF this Act.
SEC 4. BE IL further enacted, That it shall not be
lawful for any person persons to SELL or offer to
sell any spirituous or alcoholic liquors within this
Stae, until he she they shall first appear before the
County Court Clerk Of the county where such liquors
are TO be sold, offered for sale and take and sub
scribe TO an oath not to mix adulterate with any
subsistence whatever the liquors offered for sale and
give bond in the sum of five hundred dollars with
good and sufficient security for the payment of all
cost arising from prosecutions for violation Of the
provisions Of this Act.
Shc. 5. BE IL further enacted, That it shall not be
lawful for any person or persons TO manufacture or
rectfy any spirtuous or alcoholic liquors within
the limits of this State, until he, che they shall
first appear before the County Court Clerk of the
county where such liquors proposed to b. manu-
factured or rectifed and take and subscribe TO an
oath not TO sduterate, or suffer to be aduIteraied
any liquors manufactured OF rectihed by themselves
or agents.
SIC. G. Be IL further enacted, That the provisions
of this Act shall not be so construed rs to prevent
druggists, physicians, and persons engaged in the
mechanical arts from mixing and aduterating
liquors for medicinal or mechanical purposes.
SEC. Z. BE i further enacted That no spiriuouS
or alcoholic liquors shall be imported and sold within
this State until the same shall first be inspected and
tested by competent chemist, to be appointed upon
the application Of the person persons desiring tc
sell the same, by the Mayor or Circuit or County
Judge of the town or county, the applicant to pay
all costs arising from such inspection
SEC. e. BE II further enacted That If any person
or persons shall violate the 7th section of this Act
he or they shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined not more thar
one thousand dollars, nor less than one hundred.
SIC. 8. BE II further enacted, That the Grand
Jury may have the power TO send for persons Of
papers in cases where they may be of the opinion
that any person or persons have been guilty Of vio
lating any of the provisions of this Act.
SRc 10. Be II further enacted, That If any pcrsor
OF persons shall seli any spirituous or alcoholic
liquors without complying with the 4th and 5tl
sections of this Act, they shall be deemed guilty o
msdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be ineC
not less than fifty nor more than FIVE hundred
dollars.
Passed March 10Th, 1860
W. C. WHITHORN,
i Speaker OF the Senate.
TAZ W. NEWMAN,
Il Speaker of House of Representatives.