Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-04-06

Nor More pt than pint and less than
one and a half Dints 3 TIC.
One and a half pintS 8 1lac
More than one and half pIntS
- anu less than two plnts 11UVc.
Two plntS 4 a Ivy
Haf-gallon g 20c
One gallon 10 4Uc. -
The retail dealer is compelled to keep in
book record of all the liquor sold by
him, and these books are to be examined
by the Commissioner of the Revenue,
monthly, who shall report whether, in his
opinion, the dealer has complied with the
provisions of The act. Upon the report of
the Commissioner of the Revenue, the
City OF County Treasurer shall Immediately
make out the tax against the dealer,
who shall pay in five days, or be proceeded
against by law, as now provided for the
collection of other taxes.
THE PENALTIES.
For every time dealer fails to turn the
crank of the register after selling liquor,
he shall be find not less than $40 nor more
than 800, one third of it to go to the infor
mer, to be collected by summary process,
and for second offence he shall forfeit
his license, which shall not be renewed
for ten years. Amy person who shall mu-
tilate, deface OF destroy a register in bar
room OF retail house. or willfully move the
hands on the dial or turn the crank shall
be find from $40 to 500 and confined IN
Jail not exceeding year. A Commission
er of the Revenue or other public officer
who fails to perform any duty under the
act may be fined from 500 to 800 and re-
moved from office by the county or corpo-
ration court, and any public officer who
colludes with q dealer to defraud the State
of the tax will be3deemed guilty of a felo-
ny and confinedin the penitentiary from
one to three years OF put in jail not more
than a year and fined not more than $500, at
the discretion of the jury.
REDUCTION OF THE PRESENT LICENSE
TAX.
The license tax on retail liquor dealers or
bar keepers. payable semi-annually il adj
vance, shall in the country OF in towns of
1000 inhabitants or less, be $50; towns
having over 1000 inhabitants, $40, and
the tax On those desiring license for each
business shall respectively be, III country
or city, $75 and $3.50; but in either Of the
above cases the tax on any dealer shall be
one half of the figures named when the
other half is realized from the tax accru-
ing from the use of the register. This is
really equivalent to reduction of the
present license tax fifty per cent.
DRUGGISTS.
Druggists desiring to sell wines and Ii
quors to take out q retail Hquor-dealer'S
license and use the punch. This act not to
apply to liquor used by any druggist in his
business OF furnished On the prescription
of licensed physician in quantities not
exceeding q pint.
HOW AND WHEN To GO INTO OPERATION.
The bill is already in effect and the au-
ditor will furnish the dealers registers as
fast as they are made. In the meantime
the dealers will take out their licenses at
tie April Court under the provisions Of
this act and when they get the register
will have q credit Of $40 paid for the use of
the register. If he has already paid the
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current fiscal year he Shall not be required
to pay the specific license tax required by
this act.
Spring, where the Dead Sleep.
Those who went to our Cemetery last
week during the few fine days we had,
could but notice the greatly improved ap-
pearance which has been wrought there by
the terracing and identifying of many of
the sections. This is the handi-work of
the worthy English landscape gardner,
Mr.. Henry Cotton, who with a degree of
taste, equal to his industry, has been en-
ployed by the owners Of score or more Of
lots to tx them up and has succeeded
much to the satisfaction Of his employers
as well as to his own credit. The contrast
between those neatly terraced and we'll
sodded sections and those as yet uncared
for is so striking that one, however indif-
ferent he may be, can but regret that the
is not uniform. At small
outlay all the graves could be so beautifed
that this city of our dead would b. really
an attractive and pretty place and credit
to Staunton.
The grounds are so arranged as to pro-
vide for fountain in the centre, and now
that the City Council has in compliance
with the petition of Rev. Mr.. Phillips the
President of the Cemetery Company, con-
sented to extend the water through the
we may shortly expect to see q
beautiful fountain furnishing greatly in
creased facilities for watering the grass,
shrubbery and flowers there, and new in
centive to proprietors to improve and
adorn the last resting place of loved ones
who have gone before.
TT PAYS TO ADvEKTIs E.-Monday |
morning we saw at the handsome dry goods |
store of Maj. Newton, on Augusta street,
,he proprietor engaged in putting up
arge bill of dry goods for lady in Pendle-
ton county, W. Va. He informed us that
she was a subsc iber to the VIND1cAToR,
md wrote that having seen his advertise
nent there, she sent on her order. Therei
out one way to- succeed in business, and
hat is to advertise. ,, X l