Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-05
of each county. annually, in the month of March,
 which abstract shall be returned to the office of the

secretary Ol State. s Sec. 9. Persons licensed as herein provided shall prevent far as is in their power and shall at all events give immediate notice to the nearest sher- h. constable or police offcer of and every dis tnrbance, disorder, and breach of the peace Tn any place which shall be so licensed, and shall forth With cause all persons to be removed therefrom and the place to be closed and kept closed until quiet is restored.
 Sec. 10. No psrson shall sell, give away, or dis pose of any strong or sprituous liquors, wine, ci- der, ale or beer. to any apprentice m1nor klow- Ing or haylnS reason to believe him to be such, without the consent of the master of such appren- tlce or the parent of such minor; or to haDitual dfunkard, or to any Intoxicated person or persons then being under the influence of iquor or to any Wife, husband or child against tho request of the husband such wife, the wife of such husband or tho parent of such child or to any person whatev- CT against the written request of the selectmen of hi5 town, when ln the opinion of such seectmen the person named in the written request is neglec- tlrg his or her family, is liable to become carg- ] able to the town as 8 pauper.
 Sec II. All persons licensed as herein provided shai! keep the places licensed, orderly and quiet and between the hours of twelve o'clock at nIgnt ! and sunrise, and on Sundays they shall keep the same completely aad etfectualiy closed, nothing herein contained shall be constructed to prevent hotels from recei ing and otherwise entertaining 1 the travellng public on Sundays, subject to the provisions or this section,
 | Sec. l2. No person persons except those licen- selas herein provided, shall give out or profess to sell, or to have for saie spirtuous liquors vii cider. ale or bear or shai have perml continue in 1 of aoJut his or thelr premises, and slsa uotce furniture, or token indicating that sucn liquors, wlle, cider. ale or beer, there kept for sai4, and the presence of any such sign nOtIce, furnl- ture or token Ill or aoouG u;h premises, snail be p2nl1 tacie evidence that the owner occupant u1 such premises has violated the provisions oI sucn act.
 sec. IS. Every person who shall violate any of tne fore5 5olng provisions of this act snau for each Of 1 fence be guilty of mislemeanor, and on ,coiyle- l tlon thereof shall be punished with fine of not A f,a,,t 1,Nllo for the first offence and for any subsequent offence not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, and with Imprisonment in the county jai. Tor not less than tea days nor more than thirty days.
 Sec. 14. Any conviction for violation of any per son. or persons licensed, at any place licensed as herein provided, shall forfeit and annul sucll license for at least one year.
 ] Sec 15. 1t shall be the duty of every sheriff constable or member of police force to compe.
 he observance and to prevent the violation Of til. foregoing provisions, if necessary by summariIy closing and keeping closed any place in which sAai be Violated any of such provisions.
 Sec. l6. Every sheriH constable or police Ofic CT shall forthwith arrest all persons who shall violat. any or the provisions of this act Carry such person before any magistrate of the city town in whicu i the offence shall be committed, to be dealt witt according to the provisions of this act and it shal l be the duty pf every magistrate to entertain com- plaint5 and issue warrants of arrest for vioIati of an, of the provisions of this act whenever such l complaint snail De made under oath, and signeu 1 by any. sheriff constable or police officer of the rown or city where the offence is alledged to havo been committed.
 l Sec IT. rne said boards of cxc1se may at any tlme and upon complaint of T" sdents of their sev- eras counties, shall summon before them any per l son persons licensed as aforesaid and If they shall become satisfied that any such person or per sons has or have violated any of these provisions of this act, they shall revoke cancel and annu tho licenses of such person or persons, which cancea- ton they are hereby empowered to make; and up- on any such enquiry, the said boards, or the par y complained o1, may summon, and said board may compel the attendance of witnesses before them, and examine them under oath.
 Sec. 19 All license fees herein provided for shal be received by the several boards of excise, and af deductln9 the necessary expenses of the boards shall be paid quarterly into the state treasury Tho several boards of excise shall annually ill th month of March render 10 the state treasury, a. account of all license fees received by them tOgctll- er with full statement of all the ex Jenses at th, boards ill the execution of this Jaw. No board o. excise shall make any deduction for expe lses fro 1 the amount received by them for licena.. f.+ ex- oeedng i'll all the sum of one thousaud dollars
 Sec, l9. All acts and parts of acts I..v,.s4sten, herewith are hereby repealed: but tn ng contain i ed in this act shall be construed to prevent the l manufacturer of wines and cider from selling such wines and cider iD quantities not jess than 1 five gallons.
 MAJORITY REPORT OF CCMMITTEE ON THE i SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS | EContinued to the next session of the General Assembly and ordered to be printed with the laws.
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, May Session, A. D. 1867. l The undersigned, a majority of the joint select committee on the sale of spirituous Huuors to whom were referred the petitions of divers persons for the repeal of the law prohibiting the sale of .- coxicating liquors ana Ter the enactment of a just and sautary license law, having had said petitions under consideration, and heari the testiIn ony of various witnesses relative thereto beg leave to re- potC
 Hba+t he cP ! II;
 long series Of years, Was that of regulation rather than ot p:ohibition and that the sale of intoxica- iqL ors aS beverage has never been regarded as
 crime or n and of itself, but only as all evil under some conditions and therefore legislation should be directed to conining the sale within cer- tain persons and places; and that even the so- 1 called Maine Law" allows the sale of liquor by specific town agents for certain special purposes 1 Tine majority of your committee also find that while the present prohibitory law doubtless de- | signed to stop the growth Of dIunkencss and pre- vent the safe of intoxicating qvers, it has utterly failed to accomplish either of these results, that eI- ther because public opinion has failed to sustai .e law or, for the reason that prohibtory legisla- tlon Is contrary to the spirit of the age and dis tasteful to the people of this state 1t is certain that ID a except very small portion of the state, the law has been for years dead letter, and there the
 law has been, instead of regulated trafic III ard l ent spirits, practical unlicensed free trade in spirtuous liquors, and an open constant and un- punished violation of the law That while it is that within the past few months there have been efforts made by secret organizations with paid detective 8 l weo purchased liquors and then informed against the seller enforce the law and that these prose- cutions have in some instances been successful it remains to be seen whether, in many of tnese ca 1 ses, jury will convict upon such testimony es- pec,auy as 1t was the almost universal testimony that prosecutions for this offence were more dift- l cult to sustain than any other.
 l It also appeared to the undersigned that a large revenue might be secured the state from tnIs 1 source and that this ought not to be neglected considering the pecuniary burdens which ine state 1 IS now bearing. That tnls source of revenue is l recognized by every government one peculiarly proper to contribute toward relieving the weight of taxation, and is one which the present national l system of finance both permits and licenses and l from which Is drawn no inconsiderable reyenue l It seemed therefore that the government of the I United States ought not to have the benefit of a
 income from citizens of this state while our state treasury was deprived of what it's citizens would be ready to pay for like privileges under state law and that was rghttor the Congress the United States to authorize the issuing of licenses for thi tratc 1t might be well for the state of Connecticut l to do tho same.
 The undersigned are of opinion that stringent and guarded license law, while 1t would produce revenue to the state, it would also serve to regu. late the traffic and bring into the hands of respectable class of dealers, would close altogether the haunts Of the more vicious and deprayed, and would be better for the peace and good morals oi the community than the present law, which, while