Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-17

september term, 1910.
Tho Grand Jury most respectfully calls
the attention OF the Court to the fact that
they are informed that in innumerable
places in the city of Elizabeth intoxicating
liquors are sold without the formality or
permission of license, and that in many
low places the vile traffic is carried on at
all hours of the night, and ON Sunday as
well as week days. the sales being made
Unfortunately to men, women and chill
dren, and this in violation of the peace and
well-being of the people of Union County.
The Grand Jury are convinced that many
of the petty but disgraceful squabbles
among women at Elizabethport are the
result mainly of the facility with which
these squabbling women get beer. The
women 80 noisy and quarrelsome are many
of them the wives of industrious and tenn
perate husbands. The Grand Jury feel
that it is due to such husbands that the fire
brand of liquor should be debarred them,
and, therefore, they take the liberty of sug
costing such change in our laws as will
check materially if not utterly puta stop
to the disgraceful scenes, which must be
| familiar alike to Courts and Grand Juries.
The Grand Jury take the liberty of re-
commencing:
l. That fine of $40 per bottle, barrel or
keg be imposed upon any one who will de-
post at house, tavern, shop, or vacant
| lot, beer, cider, ale, or spirituous or malt
liquor, the said house, tavern, shop or va
cant lot not being properly licensed to sell
spirituous or malt liquors.
2. That depositing ale, beer, lager beer or
malt or spurious liquors at any house,
tavern, vacant lot, or other place, shall be
accepted and construed to mean that such
ale, beer, malt or spirituous liquors is there
offered for sale, and that the owner of the
property shall be fined for every package
SO deposited or found on the premises, $40.
| 8. That in case any licensed vendor of
spirituous liquor be found guilty of selling
in any quantity beer, cider, malt or spirit
uous liquors of any kind between the
hours of IL O. clock on Saturday night and
o'clock on the following Monday morn
ing, he, she or they so offending against
the peace and good order of the people of
Union county, shall be fined 800 and costs
of such action as may be brought to re-
cover the penalty, and furthermore that
the license of such vendor be declared by
the Court revoked, and it shall not be law
full for the Excise Board to again license
such offender for the term of three years
next succeeding.
4. That in case a licensed vender is
proved to have sold malt or spirituous
liquors or lager beer in any quantity, to be
drunk on the premises or carried away to
females or minors, the said vender, for
any such offence, shall be fined 800, and
the court upon proof shall revoke the
license of such offender, and it shall not be
lawful for the Excise Board to again grant
d license to such offender for the three
years next ensuing.
5. That if beer, ale, malt or spirituous
liquors be found and offered for sale In I'M
licensed premises in the city of Elizabeth,
the court, will upon conviction, impose a
penalty of $500, fer which the occupant and
owner of the building will be Jointly and
severally liable.
6. That in case of violating the law by
| the cart, dray or other vehicle of non
resident be found liable for such penalty,
such cart, dray or other vehicle, with the
horse or horses thereto attached, shall be
seized as the property of a liable non-resi-
dent, and shall be held at the expense of
the owner or owners thereof, until such
fine is paid.
7. That the police force of the city OF
Elizabeth be charged by the court with re-
newed zeal in the matter of these recon-
mendations, and that so far as possible the
police see to the execution of these laws.
g. That all fines under the foregoing
recommendations be made one-half pay
able to the informers and the remaining
half be given to the credit of the school
fund of the city of Elizabeth.
Finally-If the Grand Jury may be per-
mitted to make such a recommendation
to the Honorable court the Grand Jury
would urge that the whole subject, with a
| recommendation of the court, be referred
| to some suitable person or persons with a
request that bill be prepared for the ac-
ton of the next Legislature of The State of
| New jersey and that the said bill with
some of the points of this recommendation
and such other points as will tend to the
safety and well-beng of the people OF
Union County, and of the proper obser-
vance Of the Lords day ; and that bill
so prepared shall be entrusted to the Sena-
tor of the County of Union. and that he
and the member of Assembly from Eliza
beth be requested to urge their brother
legislators to grant the people of Union
County the relief herein suggested.
| 8. That the Board of Excise may at their
discretion allow private families to receive
at their residences malt or spirituous
liquors, when the said board is satisfied
that such liquors are to be used in the
family, and not in any manner to bo treated
az merchandise.
! The Grand Jury of the Comfy of Union
I respectfully present to the court that upon
| information and from observation they are
convinced that the city of Elizabeth has
/ outgrown the usefulness of the present
I system of qolice courts and courts for the
| trial OF small causes. They are satisfied
| that large per centage of the complaints
| presented by the grand juries are fostered
by police justices and justices of the peace
for gain; that many quarrels and INSIDE