Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-03-27

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO an act fur
ther to regulate the granting of licenses
to hotels and eating houses, approved
March thirty-fiFst, one thousand eight
hundred ana fifty-siX.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted 6l the Senate
and House Of Representatives Of the COM
n10nlCeayth Of Pennsylvania IN General
ASseH1bIy met, and Il Is he5'e5y enacted by
the authority Of the same, That when an
application Is made to any court OF quar-
ter sessions of this Commonwealth, Tor
license to sell intoxicating drinks, II shall
be lawful for said court 70 hear petitions,
in addition TO that Of the applicant, III
favor of and remOnstTauces against the
application for such license, and IN ali
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 ana entertain
ment of strangers and travellers, and upon
sufficient cause being shown, the said
courts shall have power TO revoke any
license granted by them, and all laws in
consistent with this section are hereby
repealed: PrOUjded, That the suretieS in
the bond, required of the applicant for
Ii ;ense, shall be signed TO his petition.
SEC. ,. That applications for license 10
" I'LL JISA L4bNAcC VI ANSLeA(A
rant, 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 !
for license TO keep a hotel: Provided, |
That the regulation in relation 10 bed /
rooms and beds shall not apply 10 appli- /
cants for an eating-hOuse, beer-hOuse and /
restaurant license, and the tenth section /
OF the act Of twentieth April, one thous- !
and eight hundred and fifty-eight, author |
izing county tTeasurers TO grant an eating |
house or retail brewery license, is hereby /
repealed.
SEC. ,. 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 Tor less sum than fifty dollars, nor
elsewhere for a less sum than twenty
dollars.
fEC. /. If any person, after the passage /
OF this act, shall sell spirituous and vinous |
liquors, domestic wines, matted or brewed /
liquors, without having obtained a. license
him so to do, such persons
shall, on conviction in the court of quar-
ter sessions, be fined, for the first ofiense,
Ia any sum not less than fifty, nor more
than two hundred dollars; and for the |
second, or any subsequent offense, such /
person shall be fined not less than one
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: Pr1rided, That moth
ing III 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 apOthecaries.
SEC. ). That the provisions OF the first
section OF this act shall not apply to the
city of Philadelphia or 10 the county of /
Allegheny: ProUjled, That nothing in
this act shall authorize the granting of !
licenses TO hotel and inn keepers, to vend |
yiuOus, spiTituOus and malt liquors, and
70 license beer houses, eating houses and
in any locality where Iicens-
ing OF hotels, inns, beer houses, eating
houses or restaurants i now prohibited
BY law.
The above bill has passed both Houses,
and has no doubt been signed by the Gov
ernor by this time. It IS not what was
petitioned for from this county, but is still
an improvement on the old law, a. it now
requires license for saloons, &c, the same
as taverns, and gives the judges discre-
tionary power in granting licenses at all.
Whether our judges will exercise it will
become apparent at April court.