The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-31
The Sale of Vinous or Spirltuous
Liquors under the New Code.

In response to frequent inquiries on
this subject, we will say: According TO
the new Code vinous or spirituous Ii
quors cannot be sold in any quantity,
large or small, without license The
seller s'bv the drink Is to.obtain license
as now required, and must publish his
petition and names Of signers for three
weeks (in a newspaper OF the county or
by posting, if there Is none before ac-
ton on his application for license. The
price Of license is unchanged. Any per-
son may sell a pint or five gallons, nei-
Their less than the former nor more than
the latter, after paying the tax-eollect-
or Of the county one hundred dollars
and obtaining from him a privilege Il
cense and any person may sell one
gallon or more, otter paving the tax-col-
Iector $4,000 and obtaining privilege
License. These licenses are for one year.
These licenses under the privilege tax
cannot permit the liquor sold TO be
drank on their premises and are prohib-
tied from selling on election days and
from allowing gaming for amusement or
otherwise about their premises. Ii q
majority of the voters in Il town or SUI
pervisors district shall petition the board
Of supervisors against the granting Of
licenses. it shall thereafter be unlawful
for the tax-colIector of the county to is
sue any licenses, and any issued viii be
void.
This Is the ''Iocal option" feature Of
the law 1t is in the power of each in
corporated town, and each supervisors
district, to forbid the sale Of ardent
spirits within its limits, by the easy pro-
cess of petitioning the board Of Super
visors; and that will cause aProhibition
Of the granting Of any license for twelve
months. After such an experience, if
such petition by majority of voters
shall not be again presented, licenses
may be issued Each town and super
visor's district has control of the mat
! tiers within Its limits.
/ The exclusive privilege Of druggists,
to sell liquors for sacramental, culinary
or medicinal purposes, either with or
without a physicians prescription, Is
taken away. They are placed on the
footing Of other dealers. They cannot
sell less than pint, with license to sell
by the drink. They may sell by the
pint or upwards, as others may. They
are 10 pay privilege tax as merchants,
and if they wish TO deal in vinous or
spirituous liquors, in addition to their
other business, they must pay for the
privilege to deal in such liquors, as
others are required to do. They are
not denied the right to compound medi-
cines, and sell them, although alcoholic
liquor may enter into the compound.
They are denied the right to sell, with
out license, mixtures of which vinous
or spirituous liquor is the principal
Ingredient" that IS, mixtures used as a
substitute for ardent spirits, and EN-
ployed as a means to evade the prohibi-
ton to sell vinous and spirituous liquor.
The provisions applicable to obtain
ing license to sell by the pint and more
are in the Revenue law, which is now in
force.
The act applicable to saloon keepers
+ Sellers by the drink viii be in force on
the 1st of November next. Until then
that class Of dealers will be subject to
the law which has been in force for years.