Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-03-15
Corporation Laws-At the REQUEST


laws. Section and 8 Of chapter 9 read:
81. Every applicant for license to
keep hotel or tavern, bowling alley or
saloon, billiard table, or table of like kind,
or to sell liquors or other drinks, or re-
freshments, shall designate the building
or room where the same is to be kept or
sold, and shall also satisfy the Council that
he is of good moral character and demean-
or, and not of Incorporate habits; and If
the license is to sell spirituous liquors,
wine, porter, ale, beer, or drink of like
nature, the applicant shall give bond,
with good security, to be approved by the
Council, in the penalty Of at least three
thousand five hundred dollars, condition
cd that he will not permit any person to
drink to intoxication OH any premises un-
der the control of such applicant, and that
he will not knowingly sell or furnish any
Intoxicating drink to any person who is
intoxicated at the time, or who is known
to him to have the habit of drinking to
intoxication, or who he knows, or has
reason to believe, is under the age Of
twenty-one years; and that lie will not
sell or furnish such drink to any person
on Sunday. And for every breach of the
conditions of such bond, there shall be
recoverable against said applicant and his
securities in said bond, before the Mayor,
in an action of debt for the use Of the Cor
poration, the sum of twenty dollars, until
the penalty of said bond is exhausted;
an2 such license shall, for any such
breach, be subject to revocation by the
Council.
"5. Upon the petition in writing OF any
inhabitant of the Corporation, any license
authorized by the Council may be revoked
by them for good cause shown; but the
person holding the license must first have
reasonable notice Of the proposed revoca-
ton, and the privilege of being heard in
person or by counsel"
Sections / and of chapter 3 read:
81. If any druggist shall, within the
corporate limits of this town, sell alcohol,
sprituous liquors or wine, unless for me
dicinal purposes, he shall, for each anu
every offence, he fined not less than five
nor more than fifty dollars; and in any
prosecution against a druggist for selling
alcohol, spirituous liquors or wine, with
out 4 license therefor, if the sale be proved,
it shall be presumed that the sale was UNI
lawful, in the absence OF satisfactory proof
to the contrary. No sale Of alcohol, splr-
ituous liquors or wine shall be made by
any druggist, within the corporate limits
of this town, except upon the written pre-
scription of practising physician in gooa
standing in his profession and not Of in
temperate habits, specifying the name Of
the person and the kind and quantity Of
such liquors to be furnished to him, and
stating that such liquors, SO prescribed,
are absolutely necessary as medicine,
and not us Il beverage, for such person.
And the production Of such prescription
by the defendant, ut the trial Of any pros
ecution against him for the sale of the al
cohol, spirituOus liquors or wine, NEIL
toned herein, shall be sufficient to rebuff
the presumption arising from the proof of
such sale rs hereinbefor prescribed for,
if the Mayor believes from all the evidence
in the case that the sale was made in goOd
faith, under the belief that such prcscrip-
ton and statement were true.
-. If any physician shall, for the pur-
pose of aiding druggist or other person
in the violation Of amy OF tho provisions
of this chapter or otherwise, give such
prescription aud make such statement
falsely, lie shall be fined notices. than five
nor more than fifty dollars. Every such
prescription and statement shall be filed
and preserved by the druggist selling such
liquors thereon, and the same shall be
open and subject to the inspection of the
Mayor, or any relative of the person to
whom such liquors were sold; and any
druggist or person in charge of such pre-
scriptions and statements, who shall will
fully fail or refuse to produce the same
when demanded for inspection by any of
the persons aforesaid, shall be fined not
less than five nor more than fifty dollars,
and that one-half of any fine imposed I'M
der the provisions Of this chapter shall be
paid to the informcr."