The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-02-10
THE NEW ILLINOIS LIQUOR LAW.

A License law has just passed both
branches of the Illinois Legislature, which
enacts that no Intoxicating liquor shall
hereafter be sold without a license and
that no license shall issue unless the party
applying therefor shall give bond in the
penal sum of $4,000, with two freehold
sureties, conditioned that they will pay
all damages to any person, in person or
property, by reason of the selling of liquor
under said license; the penalty to be recov-
cred in the name of the State for the use
of any person Injured by liquor sold by
such licensed person. Sales of liquor to
minors or to intoxicated persons are pro-
hibited. Every person selling liquor, with
or without license, thereby causing the
intoxication of any other person, shall be
compelled to pay a reasonable compen-
sation to any person who may take charge
of and provide for such intoxicated person,
and two dollars per day in addition thereto
for such time the drunken man may be
kept.
Every husband, wife, child, parent, guar
dian, employer, OF other person, who shall
be injured in person or property, or means
of support, by any intoxicated person, or
in consequence of the intoxication, habit
ual or otherwise, Of any person, shall have
right of action against the seller or giver
of the liquor causing the intoxication, in
whole or in part; and person owning or
renting, leasing or permitting the occu-
patton Of any building or premises, and
having knowledge that intoxicating liquors
are to be sold there, or who, having leased
the same for other purposes, shall know
ingly permit therein the sale of such liquors,
shall be liable, with the seller, for all dam
ages sustained, and for exemplary dam
ages; and married woman shall have the
right to sue under this act as fems sole,
an unlawful sale of liquor shall work for
fixture of all rights of the lessee or tenant.
For selling liquors without license, or to
a minor or intoxicated person, the penalty
is not less than $50 nor more than 800,
and Imprisonment in Jail from ten to thirty
days; persons convicted of keeping houses
declared by the law to be common nuisances
shall pay not less than $50 nor more than
500, and be imprisoned from twenty to
fifty days; and the persons convicted shall
be required to give bond in the sum of
$1,000 not to sell liquors contrary to the
laws. The giving away liquors is declared
to be selling, in the contemplation of the
law.
The law further provides for the pay
ment of fines, costs and damages assessed
and recovered under this act, the real
estate and personal property of the person
shall be liable, and the same shall be lien
upon such property until paid; and the
building or premises used or occupied for
the sale of liquor shall be liable for, and
may be sold and taken to pay fines, costs,
and damages assessed against the occu-
pants; and, pending the suits for recovery
of such damages, proceedings may be had
to subject such property to the payment of
the amount which may be recovered. In
case such building or premises be the prop
erty of minor or insane person, then the
real ard personal property of the guardian
of such minor, &C., shall be liable.
This law, stringent as it is, passed both
Houses of the Illinois Legislature by dec-
ded majorities, and if enforced must work
a radical change for the better.