The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-04-04
The Hevv License Law.

Following is tho law lately passed by
the State Legislature regulating the grant,
ing CT licenses to eating and drinking
houses:
A further supplement 70 an act farther
to regulate the granting of licenses to
hotels and eating houses, approved
March thirty-frst, one thousand eight
hundred aud ffty-six.
SECTioN I. Be Il esiactea By the Ssnats
and House Of Representatives. of the Com
nonUecLh Of PennylUania IN General
assembly met, and 1t as hereby enacted bv
the authority Of the sarte, That Ahen an
application is made to any court of Quarter
sessions of this Commonwealth, for Hcens
ses TO sell Intoxicating drinks, il shall be
lawful for said court to hear petitions, "a
addition to that Of the applicant, in favor
OF, and remonstrances against the aopli-
cation for such license, and in all cases to
refuse the same whenever, in the opiuiou
OF said court, having due regard to the
number aud character of the petitioners
for and against such application, such
license Is not necessary for the accommo-
dation of the public and entertainments Of
cause being shown, the said courts shall
have power 20 revoke any license granted
by them, and all laws inconsistent With
this section are hereby repealed: PROVIDED,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 res
taurant authorizing the sale of domestic
wines, malt and brewed liquors. shall
hereafter be made in the same manner
and to the same authority as application
fo- license to keep hotel: Proci,Red.
That the regulation in relation to bed
rooms and beds shall not apply to appli-
cantS for an eating house, beer house and
restaurant license, and the tenth section
of the act Of twentieth April, one thousand
eight Hundred and ffty-eight, authorizipe
county treasurers to grant an eating house
or retail brewery license, is hereby re-
pealed.
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 Incorporated
city for less sum than fifty dollars, DOR
eisewhere; fer q less sum than twenty
dollars
SEC. 4. If any person, after the passage
of this act, shall sell spirituous and vinous
liquors, domestic wines, malt or breWed
liquors, without having obtained a license
authorizing him SO to do, such person
shall, on conviction in the court of quarter
sessions, be fned, for the first offense. in
any sum not less than fifty, nor more than
two hundred dollars; aud for the second,
or any Subsequent offense, such person
shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars, and; in the discretion OF the said
court, be imprisoned in the county iail
nUt less than thirty days, nor more than
ninety days: Provided, That buthing in
this act shall oe construed to repeal the
provisions of the act of Assembly passed
March thirty-frst, one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-six, relating to sales by
druggists and apothecaries
SEC. 5. That the provisions of the frst
section of this act shall not apply to tho
city Of Philadelphia or to the county of
Allegheny: Provtaed, That nothing in
this act shall authorize the granting of
licenses to hotel and inn keepers, to
vend vinous, spirituous and malt liquo:s,
and to license beer houses, eating houses
end restaurants in any locality where
licensing of hotels, inns, beer houses.
eating houses, or restaurants is uog pro.
hibited by law.