Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-28
A NEW LICENSE LAW.

The following bill, regulating the
granting Of licenses, has passed
both houses finally, and will become
the law on which future licenses will
have to be granted. It is important
that all applications for license at the
May session shall at once comply
with the law:
A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO an act fur
ther to regulate the granting Of
licenses to hotels and eating houses,
approved March thirty-first, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty
six. f*5Es s-A = s-.#s.
SECTION L. BE IL enacted by tse Sen
ate and House of Representatives of
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania IN
General assembly met, gnd ii is hereby
enacted By the authority Of the same,
That when an application is made to
any court of quarter sessions of this
Commonwealth, for license to sell in
toxicating drinks, it shall be lawful
for said court to hear petitions, in ad-
dition to that of the applicant, in
favor Of, and remonstrances against
the application for such license, and
in all cases to refuse the same when
ever, in the opinion of said court ,hav-
ing due regard to the number and
character of the petitioners for AID
against such application, such license
is not necessary for the accommoda
tion of the public and entertainment
of strangers and travellers, and upon
sufficient cause being shown, the
said courts shall have power to re-
woke any license granted by them,
and all laws inconsistent with this
section are hereby repealed: Provided,
That the sureties in the bond, re
quired of the applicant for license
shall be signed to his petition
SEC. ?. That applications for Ii,
cense to keep an eating house, beer
house or restaurant, authorizing the
sale Of domestic vines, malt and
brewed liquogs, snail hereafter be
made in the same manner and to the
same authority as application for IL
cense to keep hotel: Prorided,
That the regulation in relation to bed
rooms and beds shall not apply to
applicants for an eating-house, beer
house and restaurant license, and the
tenth section Of the act of twentieth
/ April, one thousand eight hundred
and Grty-eight, authorizing county
/ treasurers to grant an eating-house
or retail brewery license, is hereby
repealed.
SEC. 3 No license to keep an eat
! iDg-house, beer-housc or restaurant,
under the provisions of the second
section of this act, shall be granted
in any incorporated city for a less
sum than fifty dollars, nor elsewhere
for less sum than twenty dollars,
SEC. 4. If any person, after the
! passage Of this act, shall sell spirit
nous and vinous liquors, domestic
/ wines, malt or brcwed liquors, with
out having obtained 4 license author
izing him so to do, such person shall,
on conviction il the court Of quarter
sessions be fined fer the first offence,
in any sum not less than fifty, nor
more than two hundred dollars and
for the second, or amy subsequent Of
fcnse, such person shall be fined not
less than one hundred dollars, and,
in the discretion Of the said court,
be imprisoned in the county jail not
less than thirty days, nor more than
ninety days Prorjded, That moth
ing in this act shall be constructed
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 apothecaries.
! SEC. 5. That the provisions of the
! first section of this act shall not aD-
ply to the city of Philadelphia Or to
the county of Allegheny Prorided,
That nothing in this act shall au-
thorize the granting of licenses to
hotel and inn keepers,t to vend 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.