Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-18
Tne Amended Adair Law.

Tise Amended Adsair Law.
Fbefoliowing is copy of the Reese
dill which has just passed the Legisla-
ture and become law, amending Sec
ton seven Of the act as passed April is,
1870:
AN NCT 10 amend an amendment Of section
seven OF an act 10 prov ide against % evils
resulIinS from the sale OF intoxicating liq-
uoTs ia The state of 0hio. passed May !, 1854,
Is. & 5. 1850, and amended April Is. ls7O.
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted by the Gen
erdt assembly Of tie State Of Ohio, Thai
amendment OF section seven of the
above recited act be amended so as to
read as fellows:
SEC. Z. That every husband, wife,
child parent or guardian, employer or
other person, who shall be injured in
person or property or means of support
by any intoxicated person, or in con-
sequence of the iniOxication, habitual
or otherwise, OF any person, such wife,
child, parent, guardian, employer or
other person, shall have right of ac-
ton in his or her own name, severally
or jointly, against any person or per-
sons who shall, by selling or giving in
toxicating liquors, have caused the in
tOxicatiOn, i'll whole or in part. OF such
person or persons, and the owner or
lessee, or persons renting or leasing
any building or premises, having
knowledge thar intoxicating liquors
are TO be sold therein, in violation of
law, or having leased the same for 9th
.er purposes, shall knowingly permit
intoxicating liquors to be sold in such
Il
the intoxication, in whole or in part,
Of such person or persons, shall be lia-
bic, severaliy or j'iu;i!. with the per-
son or person. st iiins or giving intoXl-
eating liquors as aforesaid, for all dam
ages sustained, as well as exemplary
damages; and d married woman shall
have the same right to bring suits and
control the same and the amount recov-
cred as a femme sole; and all dam
ages recovered by minor under this
act shall be paid to such minor or to his
or her parent, guardian or next friend,
as the court shall direct; and the un-
lawful sale or giving away of intoXi-
eating liquors shall work a forfeiture
of all rights of the lessee or tenant un-
der any lessee or contract of rent upon
premises where such unlawful sale or
giving away shall take place; and all
suits for damages under this act shall be
by civil action in any of the courts Of
this State having jurisdiction thereof;
provided, that such husband, wife,
child, parent, guardian or other int err
ested person liable to be so injured by
any sale of intoxicating liquors to any
person or persons aforesaid, shall de-
sire to prevent the sale of intoxicating
liquors to the same, shall give notice,
either in writing or verbally, before a
witness or witnesses, TO the person or
persons soselfihg or giving the intoxi-
eating liquors, or to the CIV ner or lessor
of the premises wherein such intoxi-
eating liquor is given or sold, or shall
be flied with the township or corpora
ton clerk in the township, village or
city wherein such intoxicating liquors
may be sold, notice to all liquor deal
ers not to sell to such person or persons
any Intoxicating liquors from and after
ten days after the date of so filing such
notice, and such notice or notices filed
with such clerk shall be entered by the
clerk of such township, city or village,
in book to be kept for such purpose,
which said book shall be open for the
inspection ofall persons interested; any
notice entered in such book shall be
erased and so ebliterated SO as not to be
legible by the officer having charge of
the same, upon the demand of the per-
son or persons toy whom such notice
was filed, aad thereafter such notice
shall cease and end, otherwise the atpre-
said injured person or persons shall not
be entitled to real or exemplary dam
ages from the alleged Injuries which
they may have sustained by the intoX-
icatior of any of the aforesaid persons,
viz: husband, wife, child, parent,
guardian, employer or any OtLer per-
son or persons WhOmsoever; provided
that such notice, whether served per-
sonally or flied with the clerk as afore-
said, shall, during its existence, inure
10 the benefit of all persons interested
the same as If notice had been filed
by each, and if any clerk shall fail or
refuse to make such record as herein
provided, he shall be deemed guilty OF
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
before any court of competent jurisdic-
ton, shall be fined in any sum not eX-
ceeding twenty-five dollars nor less
than five dollars, and the same shall
work a forfeiture of Office held by such
clerk. -si-.-sL - g.. Fl.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be unlawful for any
saloon keeper, grocer or other person to
publish the fact that any notice has
been given, as provided in the forego-
ing section, by posting such notice in
any saloon, grocery, or other place, or
by printing or causing the same to be
printed in any newspaper, circular, or
in any other way to give publicity to
the fact that such notice has been given.
Any person violating the provisions Of
this section shall, upon conviction
thereof, in any court of competent
Jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not
less that ten nor more than fifty dol
lars, and pay the costs of prosecution.
SEC. 3. That section seven of the
above mentioned act be and the same
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.