The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-04-11
A New License Law.

The following bill, regulating the grant
ing of license, has passed both Houses
finally, and will become the law on which
future license will have to be granted
\ FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act fur
ther to regulate the granting of license
to hotels and eating houses, approved
March thirty first, one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-six.
SECTION /. BE is enacted by the Sen
ate and House Of Representatives. Of the
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania an Gen
eral AsstmJly met, and Il as hereby enact
ed Gy the authority Of the same, That
when an application is made to any court
Of quarter sessions Of this Common wealth,
for license to sell Intoxicating drinks, it
shall be lawful for said court to hear pc
titions, in addition to that Of the applicant,
in favor of, and remonstrauces against the
application for such license, and in all
cases to refuse the same whenever, in the
opinion of said court, having due regard
to the number and character of the petit
TONERS for and against such application,
such license is not necessary for the ac-
commodation Of the public and entertain
ment of strangers and travellers, and upon
sufficient cause being shown, the said
courts shall have power to revoke any Ii
cense granted by them, and all laws in
consistent with this section are hereby re
peaed: Provided, That the sureties in
the bond, required of the applicant for
license, shall be signed TO his petition.
SEC. 2. That applications for license to
keep an eating house, beer house or
restaurant, authorizing the sale of domes-
tie wines, malt and brewed liquors, shall
hereafter be made in the same manner
and to the same authority as application
for license to keep hotel: Prorided, Thar
the regulation in relation to bed rooms
and beds shall not apply to applicants for
an eating house, beer house and restau-
rant license, and the tenth section of the
act of twentieth April, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty eight, authorizing couu
ty treaSurers to grant an eating-house or
retail brewery license, is hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. No license to keep an eating,
house, beer house or restaurant, under
the provisions of the second section of
this act, shall be granted in any incorpo-
rated city for less sum than fifty dollars,
nor elsew here for less SUN than twenty
dollars.
SEC. 4. IF any person, alter the passage
of this act, shall sell spirituous and vinous
liquors, domestic wines, malt and brewed
liquors, without having obtained license
authorizing him so to do, such per.
son shall, on conviction in the court OF
quarter sessions, be fined, for the first of
tense, in any SUN not less than fifty, nor
more than two hundred dollars; and for
! the second, or any subsequent ofense,
such person shall be fined not less
than one hundred dollars, and, in the dis
cretion of the said court, be imprisoned
in the county Jail not less than thirty
days, nor more than ninety days: Pro.
U6}ed, That nothing in this act shall be
construed to repeal the provisions of the
act Of Assembly passed March thirty first
one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
relating to sales by druggists and apothc-
carries.
SEC. s., That the provisions Of the frst
section of this act shall not apply to the
city of Philadelphia, or to the county OF
Allegheny: PrOUiCled, That nothing in
this act shall authorize the granting of
licenses to hotel and inn keepers, to veud
vinous. spirituous and malt liquors, and
to license beer houses, eating houses and
restaurants in any locality where licensing
of hotels, inns, beer houses, eating houses
or restaurants is now prohibited by law.