The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-03-10
GH, HIGHLAND COUNTY, OHIO THURSDAY MARCH 10, 1881

or after his bond shall have been ad-
/ Judged to be forfeited, as in the pre-
ceding section provided, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, up
on conviction of which be shall be
fined in any sum not exceeding
$1,000, nor less than $500, or be i'm
prisOned in the county jail not ex-
ceeding one year, nor less than thirty
days,or both, in the discretion of the
Court, and it shall be part of the
sentence of the Court that he be re-
strained and perpetually enjoined
from continuing in such traffic
Sec. 5. Every person who shall
sell or furnish Intoxicating liquors,
by wholesale or otherwise, to one en-
gagged, or who shall hereafter en-
gage in such traffic in violation of
this act, shall be deemed guilty Of a
misdemeanor, cognizable in the por-
! per court of the county in which said
illegal traffic is carried on, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding $4,000, nor
less than 5000, or imprisoned in the
county Jail not exceeding one year
nor less than thirty days, and all in
debtedness and evidences thereof, /
founded upon the consideration of
such sale, or furnishing in whole or
in part, shall be absolutely void.
Sec. 6. All prosecutions for often
ses under this act, In all counties in
this State, wherein the Probate /
Court has, by law, jurisdiction Of
misdemeaplTs concurrent with the
Court of Common Pleas, shall be
conducted in all respects in said /
Probate Court, as provided in chap .
ter nine of title two of the revised I
statutes of Ohio.
Sec. z. In no prosecutions for
crimes and offenses under this act
in the Court of Common Pleas in
any county IN this State, shall an in
dictment by the Grand Jury be re-
quired, but in all such cases brought
before said court the prosecuting at
torney shall Immediately file with
said Court of Common Pleas an in
formation, setting forth briefly and .
distinctly, in plain and ordinary
language, the charges against the
accused person, and on such charges
such person shall be tried in the
same manner as provided by law for
the trial Of persons charged with
other crimes and offenses on indict-
ment in said Court of Common
Pleas; but such informations may
be amended at any time before or
during trial, on such terms as to
and otherwise, as said
court may direct.
Sec. s. The prosecuting attorney
of any county shall file his informa-
tiOn originally in said Court of Com
mon Pleas, without a preliminary
hearing before an examining court,
upon the proper afidavits being file
therein, and in like manner shall fled /
his information upon the transcript
of a criminal cause, brought for any
Ofense under the provisions of this
net, of any Justice of the Peace, or
Mayor Of any village or city, which
shall be filed in said Court Of Com
mon Pleas, within ten days after
the fling thereof, by such Justice or
Mayor
Sec. 8. The Prosecuting Attorney
shall institute civil actions on all
such bonds given under this ect, as
shall have become forfeited, for which,
Is well as for all fines and costs, he
shall be entitled to receive, as fees,
10 per cent. Of all sums by him col
ected thereon after process com
nenced.
Sec. TO- All funds paid into the
county Treasury under the provis-
ons of this act, after deducting /
herefrom costs and expenses of col
ection, shall be credited to the poor
und of the county, and at the dis
retion of the County Commissioners,
pplied to the relief of the poor, L
whose desHtutiOn has arisen from the S
lse of, or the traffic in, Intoxicating 0
liquors, and other poor. a
Sec. II. For the purpose Of pay e
ng the assessment fixed and giving tt
he bond required by this act, and g
or no other purpose Hereunder, a 7
.rm or corporation may be treated d
nd considered as one person, and o
be use and sale of Intoxicating liq- L
ors in good faith, for purely medi, y
inal purposes, by lawfully authoriz- z
d physicians, in their regular prac- Ii
ice, shall not be deemed traffic with p
l the meaning Of this act. E
Sec. II. Nothing in this act shall e
perate to repeal, supersede, or i'm q
air any existing statute or any pro- b,
ision thereof Sc
Sec. 13. This act shall take effect E
nd be in force from and after the
st day of May, 1881. o.,