Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-17
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1881.
The Amended Liquor Law.
From Detroit Post and Tribune.

From Detroit Post and Tribune
The liquor law enacted at the last
session of the legislature, now that 80
of that body, is in full force.
The LIST section of the act provides that
it shall be unlawful for any person ex-
cept druggists to sell, furnish to, or give
any spirituOus malt, brewed, fermented,
or vinOus liquors, or any beverage,
liquor, or liquid containing any spirit
uOus, malt, brewed, fermemented, or
vinOus liquors, without first having eX-
ecuted and delivered sufficient bond to
the county treasurer.
Section 2 makes it unlawful to sell,
furnish to. or give any (such llquOrs) to
any minor, to any intoxicated person, or
to any person whose husband, wife,
parent, child, guardian, or employer
shall forbid such selling, furnishing, or
giving. The fact of selling, giving or
furnishing any of said liquors to any
minor, or to any intoxicated person, or
to any person in the habit of getting in
tOxicated, shall be prima facie pre-
sumption of an intent, to violate the
law.
Section three is an advance upon the
law as it has been. 1t is aimed against
the seduction of games added to bar
rooms. 1t provides that it shall not be
lawful for any person to keep any bill
lizard, pool or card table, or allow the
same to be kept, in any room where any
of the liquors mentioned in sections one
and two of this act are or may be sold or
kept for sale, or in any adjoining room
in the same building; and it shall not be
lawful for any person to engage in any
billiards, pool, cards, dice, or any other
game of chance in any room where any
of the liquors aforesaid are or may be
sold or kept for sale, nor in any adjOin-
ing room.
The attention of the police and of all
public authorities is earnestly invited to
the above section. 1t was absolutely
necessary and its rigid enforcement will
save many youths from entering upon
the road of destruction.
Section four prohibits the sale of
liquors in any concert hall, variety
show, theater or other places of amuse-
ment, or any rooms in any building open
ing into where any such concert hall,
variety show, theater, or other place of
amusement may be.
Section five requires that places where
liquors are sold shall be closed on cleo
tiOn days, Sundays and legal holidays
until o'clock of the succeeding morn
ing. 1t also provides the word closed
shall apply to the back doors as well as
to the front doors. And in prosecution
mnder this section it shall not be necessary
to proue that any liquor acas sold. Saloons
must close at 8 p. NJ, but the common
councils in cities may permit them to
remain open until Top NJ.
Section six declares that violations of
opu provioian nf tho act u,,iItx AZ
misdemeanOr, and shall be punished by
a fine of not less than $25 nor more than
800, with costs of prosecution, and inn
priSOnment i'll The county Jail not less
than 10 nor more than 80 days. Each
violation OF anv of the provisions of this
act shall be construed to constitute
separate and complete Offense, and for
each violation on the same day, or on
different days, the person or persons
offending shall be liable to the forfeit
ures herein provided.
Section seven provides that if ann per-
SON should be drunk or intoxicated i'm any
hotel, tavern, inn, or place of public
business, or in any assemblage of people
collected together in any place for any
purpose, or in any street, alley. lane.
highway, railway or street car, or i'm any
other public place, he shall, on cOnvic-
ton thereof, be punished by fine of ten
dollars, and the costs of prosecution and
imprisonment in the common Jail of the
county not less than ten days and not ex-
ceeding twenty days, or by both such fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of
the court.
Section eight provides that whenever
complaint shall be made by any person
on oath before any justice of the peace
in any county, or other municipal or
police court, that any person is found in
t0xicated or has been intoxicated, it
shall be the duty of such justice, NUM-
clpal or police court to issue subpoena
to compel the attendance of such person
so found intoxicated to appear before the
justice or court to testify i'm regard TO
the person or persons of whom, and the
time when, and the place where. and the
manner In which the liquor producing
his intOxicatiOn was procured. When
ever the person so subpenaed shall ap-
pear before the justice, municipal or
police court to testify as aforesaid. he
shall be required to answer on oath the
following questions, tO'wit: When, where.
and or whom did you procure, obtain. or
receive the liquor, or beverage, the drink
ing or using of which has been the cause
of the intOxicatiOn mentioned i'm the
complaint? And if such person shall
refuse to answer fully and fairly such
questions on oath, he shall be punished
and dealt with in the same manner as
for contempt of court as in other cases.
If it shall appear from the testimony of
such person that any of the offences
specified in this act have been commit
ted in this state, such justice or court,
before whom such testimony is given,
shall make a true record of the same
and cause it to be subscribed bv such