The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-26
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AN ACT additional to and amendatory of chapter
thirty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and
hfty-eight, for the suppression of drinkng-ho
and tipping-shops.
Be 1t enacted, &c.
SECT; l. Any person convicted of selling intoxi-
eating liquors in violation of section seven Of the act
approved March twenty-ffth, eighteen hundred and
hy-eight, for the suppression OF drinkngh and
tppng-shops, shall not only be punished provided
in said Section but in addition thereto he shall on
the first conviction be imprisoned in the county Jail
thirty days; and the second conviction he shall be
imprisoned in the county Jail sixty days.
SECT. 2. Amy person convicted of being common
seller of Intoxicating liquors in violation OF section
shall not only be punished provided in said section
but in addition thereto he shall the first conviction
be imprisoned in the county Jail three months; and
on the second conviction he shall be imprisoned in
the county Jail four months, as provided by said
section on the third and every subsequent conviction
SECT g. Any person convicted of keeping drink
ing-house and tippng-shop in violation Of section
ten of the act aforesaid to which this is additional
shall not only be punished provided in said section
but in addition thereto, on the first conviction he
shall be imprisoned in the county Jail three months
and on the second and every subsequent conviction
he shall be imprisoned in the county Jail six months
SECT. A. Amy person convicted under the four
teenth section of the aforesaid act under the nine
teent or the twentieth sections of said act shall not
only be punished as provided therein, but he SHALL in
addition thereto, be imprisoned in the county Jail
three months.
SECT s. The second section of the act aforesaid
to which this is additional shall not authorize the
manufacture for sale, of any Intoxicating liquors ex
cept pure rum and alcohol. The manufacture for
LIQUORS, "
cept cider, is hereby prohbhed and any person con-
victed of violating this section shall be punished the
is provided i'm section three of the act afore
said, to which this is additional tor violation there
of.
SECT. g. All prosecutions against persons for man.
ufacturing liquors in violation of law. for keeping
drinking-houses and tippling-shops, and for being
common sellers of Intoxicating liquors. shall be by
indictments and in all other prosecutions under this
act and the act aforesaid to which this Is additional
judges of municipal and police courts justices of the
peace, and trial justices, in their several counties
shall have jurisdiction, by complaint, original and
concurrent with the supreme judicial court All pros
ecutions in the supreme judicial shall be by
dictment. The magistrates aforesaid, in cases not
within their jurisdiction, may examine and hold to
bail in of other offences punishable by ndict-
ment. And in all appeals from any judgment SEN
tence of any such magistrate in any proceedings
der this act, and the act to which this is additional
the penal sum in every recognizance shall be two
hundred dollars. No recognizance, in proceedings
under said acts, before any such magistrates, shall
be in a less sum than two hundred dollars; and no
recognizance in the supreme judicial court, in pro-
ceedngs under said acts, shall be in penal sum less
than five hundred dollars.
SECT 1t shall be the duty of every justice of ths
peace trial justice recorder and judge of municipal
or police court and every county attorney, having
knowledge of any previous conviction of any person
accused of violating this act, the act aforesaid to
which this is additional in preparing complaints
rants or indictments to aege such previous convc-
tons therein; and after Indictment in any such