Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-02-17
a BILL
MORE EPFECTUAII.Y To PROVIDE AGAINST
THE EVILS RESULTING PROM THE TRAF-

THE EVILS RESULTING FROM THE TRAF-
FIc IN INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
The following bill has been intro
duced by Mr.. Pond, and is now pend
ing in the Ohio Legislature
Sec. ]. Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of the State of Ohio, that
every person engaged in the traffic in
intoxicating liquors shall, within thir-
ty days after the passage of this act,
and in the first week of May in each
succeeding year thereafter; and every
person hereafter engaging in such trsf
fic shall before engaging therein, and
in the first week of May In each sue
ceeding year thereafter, during lis
continuance In such traffic, pay into
the treasury of the proper county. upon
the certificate of the county Auditor,
as follows to.wit
When his place of business is located
not within any village or city, nor
within Cne mile thereof, Sl00; when
within village having population of
less than two thousand by the next
preceding federal census, or within one
mile thereof, 5000; when within any
other village or within one mile there;
of, $500; when within any city of the
second-class, or within one mile there
of, $500; and when within any city of
the Grst-class, or within two miles
thereof, $1,000.
Sec. =. Every person engaged in
such traffic, and every person hereafter
engaging therein, shall, at the time
fixed by the preceding section for max
ing said first payment into the county
treasury, execute to the State of Ohio
his penal bond in sum not exceeding
ten thousand dollars, nor less than one
thousand dollars, with at least two
sureties resident .of the county, and
each owning therein freehold estate,
not exempt from execution, worth at
least double the amount of the bona
above membranes, which bond shall
have indorsed thereon a pertinent de-
scription Of the ,ot or premises where
In said traffic is or shall be carried on,
together with the name of its owner,
the amount Of which bond shall be
fixed by, and the sureties thereon be
to the acceptance OF the Probate Judge
Of the county, who shall keep and re-
cord the same, together with the in
dorsement thereon, in book to be
by him kept for that purpose, which
bond shall be conditioned forthe faith
full performance of all, and singular,
the requirements of this act, and the
Probate Judge shall receive in each
case for his services under this act, to
be paid by the person giving such
bond, the sum of two dollars.
Sec. 8. Every person who shall en-
gage or continue in the traffic in intoxi.
eating liquors after default made in
any payment in the first section of this
act required, shall be. deemed to have
broken the condition of his bond, and
an action shall lie thereon against him
and his sureties, in the Court of Com
mon Pleas, for double the amount OF
such default, with costs, and it shall be
, made part of the Judgment of the
Court that he be restrained and per
petually enjoined from further continu
ing in such traffic.
Sec. 4. Every person who shall en-
gage or continue in such traffic with
out having executed the bond in the
second section of this act required, OIL
after his bond shall have been adiudgec
to be forfeited, as IN the preceding sec
tion provided, shall be deemed guilty
of mlsdemeanor, upon conviction O.
which he shall be fined in any sum no
exceeding 81, 1000 nor less than $780, ,ol
be imprisoned in the county jail mo-
exceeding one year nor less than thir
ty days, or both, at the discretion O
! the Court; and 1t shall be part of sen
tence of the Court, that he be re-
strained and perpetually enjoined from
continuing in such traffic.
5 Sec. 5. Every person who shall sci
or furnish intoxicating liquors, b,
: wholesale or otherwise, to one engaged
9 or who shall hereafter engage in sucl
a traffic in violation of this act, shall b
e deemed guilty of a mlsdemeanor cog.
: nizable in the proper Court of the coun
ty in which said illegal traffic is car
n ried on, and upon conviction thereo
! shall be Gned in any sum not exceed
Il ing $4,000 nor less than 5000, or i'm
prisoned in the county jail not exceed
ing one year nor less than thirty days
and all indebtedness and evidence
thereof, founded upon the considera
: tion of such sale, or furnishing i
+ whole in part, shall be absolutely voic
n Sec, 6. All prosecutions for offense
r under this act, in all counties in thi
j. State, wherein the Probate Court, ha
: by law, jurisdiction of misdemeanol
Il concurrent with the Court of Commo
e Pleas, shall be conducted in all re
q spects in said Probate Court as pre-
is vided in chapter nine of title two of tn
o revised statutes of Ohio.
T. Sec. 7. limo prosecutions for crime
; and ofenses under this act in the Coul
- of Common Pleas in any county in tn
. State, shall an Indictment by the gran
~ jury be required, but in all such case
70 brought before said Court the Prose
:, cutting Attorney shall Immediately fiji