The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-03-25
NEW LICENSE LAW.

Following is the full text of the bill re
ported to the Legislature by the Confer.
ence Committee last Wednesday and adop
ted by both Houses by decisive vote The
vote IN the Senate stood % ayes to 20
nays in the House 122 ayes and 66
nays.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted, ETC., That
the act approved the 9th day of March,
\. d. 1872, entitled an act to permit the
voters of this Commonwealth to vote every
three years on the question of granting IL
censes to sell Intoxicating liquors be and
the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. ?. That licenses for sales of liquors
where not otherwise provided for by law
may be granted by the Court of Quarter
Sessions of the proper county at the first
or second session in each year and shall be
for one year. The said court shall fix by
rule or standing order time at which ap-
plication for said licenses shall be heard, at
which time all persons applying or making
objections to applications for licenses may
be heard by evidence, petition, remonstrance
or counsel: Prorided, That for the pre-
sent year licenses as aforesaid may be gran
ted at the third or any earlier session of
said court.
SEC. 3. That all hotels, inns and taverns
shall be classified and rated according to
the last annual return Of the mercantile ap-
praiser or assessor Of the proper city or
county, as follows, viz All cases where
the classification shall be $4,000 or more,
shall constitute the first class, and pay
500; where the classification shall be S.
900 and not more than $4,000, the Sc
cond class, and shall pay S400 where the
classification shall be $4,000 and not more
than $4,000, the third class, and shall pay
$500; where the classification shall pay
$4,000 and not more than $4,000, the
fourth class, and shall pay 500; where
the classification shall be less than 81 900,
the fifth class, and shall pay $50 Pro-
vided That no license shall be less than
$50: Ind proptded further, That any per-
son licensed the present year or any por-
ton of year, shall pay a pro rata share
Of the license fee, and the authority grant
ing the license shall designate the classified
ton for that year Ind provtded further,
That no license for bottlers shall be less
than $50
SEC. 4. That any sale made Of vinous,
spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any
admixture thereof, contrary to the pro-
visions of this law, shall be taken to
be a misdemeanor and upon conviction
of the ofense in the Court of Quarter
Sessions of the peace Of any city or
the person so offending shall be
sentenced to pay fine Of not less than two
hundred nor more than five hundred dol
lars, with the costs of posecution, and to
stand convicted until the sentence Of the
court is complied with, not exceeding ninety
davs, and upon a second or any subsequent
the party so offending shall pay
a fine Of not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars, and under
90 Imprisonment in the county jail OF not
less than three months nor more than one
wear and if licensed shall, in lieu Of i'm
prisonment, forfeit his bond and said Ii
cense and be incapacitated from receiving any
license aforesaid for the period of five years
thereafter and any keeper Of any drug or
apothecary store, confectionery, or mineral
Or other fountain, who shall sell any spiri-
suous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors,
mixed or pure, to be used as beverage,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemenor
md liable to the same conviction and pun
shment as unlicensed offenders.
SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the
Court, Mayor, Aldermen or Justice OF the
Peace, before whom any fine or penaly
;hall be recovered, to award said fine or
penalties, as well as the proceeds Of all for
cited bonds, to the City or County Trea-
urer, as the case may be.
SEC. 6. That the constables of the re-
pective wards, boroughs and townships
hall make return of retailers OF liquors,
md in addition thereto it shall be the duty
f every such constable, at each term Of the
Jourt Of Quarter Sessions OF their respee-
i've counties to make return on oath or
firmation whether, within his knowledge,
here is any unlicensed place within his
,ailiwick kept and maintained in violation
f this act and it shall be the especial duty
f the Judges of all said courts to see that
his return is faithfully made, and if any
arson shall make known III writing, with
Is or her name subscribed thereto to such
the name or names OF any one
ho shall have violated this act, with the
gnos of the witness who can prove the !