, 1875-07-07

sion for military men to visit tayernS or
drinking rooms, without restrictions in thae
respect by the civil legislature and without
requiring to be supported therein. by this
latter. This clause has therefore been
omitted ia the Committees Draft, .sa.9
ad 5 16 and $ II. The penal enactments
ere in the Committees Draft collected in
9 paragraphs, and a pretty heavy fne pro-
posed for illegal sale or retail of liquors
and smaller fines for transgressions Of the
regulations tor the Rumshops. -
Gd s IS. The clause providing that
licenses are to be produced at the Police
offices, which must apply to the licenses
mentioned in s 3 as we'll as to Rumshop-
Licenses, the Committee thinks might be
transferred to this paragraph, which treats
of the supervision and control to be exer-
cised by the Police. That the Police er
oRicio has to see tbs no unlicensed saleof
liquors takes place, is in keeping, with the
Ordinance on trade, and an express injqnc-
ton to that effect in this place might seem
not quite necessary ; but it has been con-
sidered advisable, because the Rumshop-
keepers paying d fax, which under the
circumstances here is not small, should
also have the assurance of being duly pro-
tected in their ris IS. The clause that o
license-holder may step forward as plain
tiff, is also taken from the Ordinance on
trade.
ad&1 10. The tax mentioned in the Coy
ernment's Draft, viz. $192 p. a. on every
Rumshop keeper, is the present one,
The restriction proposed by the COMMITTEES
in the privileges of Rumshopkeepers ought
to be connected with a corresponding re-
duction of the tax, which it is now propos-
ed should be $16O p. a.; at the same time
we propose a tax a triae higher than the
amount corresponding to the reduction Of
the Rumshop-tax,-on the sale of spirits
treated of ms This tax has been pro-
posed higher, because it is probable that
the number of merchants taking such Ii
censes will be below the number of RUM
shopkeepers. If the whole number of
Rum-Iicenses be issued, and surprising
that 6 merchants obtain licenses to sell
spirits, the revenue from this tax would
be S1,656 p. a, INDECENT persons not in
receipt of pensions from the poorfund are
here named as those who can obtain assist
ance from the Rumfund., ....a rH
ad 5 2l eff. Governments Drafts Is. AL
though the Governments Draft also inYolvr
ed a curtaiIing of the privileges of the
Ru~mshopkeepers, in SO far as the Draft
would have % Gallons, instead of 5.
as the limit tor their monopoly, still
the Draft fixed no term when the Ordi-
nance was to come in force. The iproyi-
sion contained in { 8 of the Committees
Draft, according to which other persons
may obtain license to sell other Liquors
than Rum by the bottle, will however be
a still greater restriction of those priyi-
leges, to which it would scarcely be Just
to subject the present license, holders; the
Committee is therefore of the opinion that
the new arrangement could not immedi-
etely, without further preparatory notice
be carried into effect, According to iin1f6o rr-r
nation obtained by the COMMITTEES. the
last Rum-License was issued in the latter
part of December last year, and the Ordi.
nance could therefore at all events come in
to force on the 1st January 1878, it being
understood, that all licenses issued in the
meanwhile should be with the reservation
that they to their original extent are, only
valid until the new Ordinance, comes in
force. As, however, it is possible, OF, even
likely, that some ,License-holdersI w0ulldi
consider the reduction in the tax asslan
quivalent for the, Limitation of the pTily1l5,
- 10y :fi IN I.~Lx ~roHor EunvUinU