The Portland daily press., 1885-04-01

hundred dollars and costs, and in default of pay
ment, shall be imprisoned three months, or in
stead of such fine and costs, shall he imprisoned
three months, or both, at the discretion of the
court, and on every subsequent conviction, six
months in addition to fine and costs.
Section B. Section forty-six, chapter twenty
seven of the revised statutes is amended by adding
thereto the following words: All dumps or app
pliances for cOncealing Disgusting or destroying
liquors, so that the same cannot be seized 1den-
titled, found in the possession under the con-
troll of any person persons shall be taken by
the officers making said search or seizure so far as
the same is practicable, together with all bottles
and drinking glasses or vessels found in the pos
session or under the control of any such person
persons and carried before the next grand jury
sitting in said county where said seizure and
search is made, and the same together with all evil
dences Of such dumps appliances for conceal
ing disgusting or destroying liquors, shall be pre-
sented to said grand jury for their consideration,
and the same shall thereafter be subject to the
order of the court Issuing the warrant for said
search and seizure that said section, when
amended, shall read as follows:
Section 46. If an officer having warrant, is
sued under this chapter, committed to him, di~
recting him to seize any liquors and to arrest the
owner or keeper thereof, is prevented from Selling
the liquors by their being poured out otherwise
destroyed, he shall arrest the alleged
keeper named in the warrant and bring him be-
fore the magistrate, and make return upon the
warrant that he was prevented from Selling said
liquors by their being poured out or otherwise de-
strOyed, as the case may be, and in his return he
shall state the quantity so poured out or destroyed
nearly as may be, and the magistrate shall put
the owner keeper arrested on trial; and if it
is proved that such liquors were described in the
warrant poured out or destroyed, and thae
they were kept or deposited and intendedfor UNI
lawful sale, and that the person so arrested was
owner keeper thereof, heshall be punished in the
manner as if the liquors described in the war
rant and in the return had been seized on the
rantand brought before the magistrate by the officer
All dumps or appliances for concealing, Disgusting
destroying liquors that the cannot be
seized identified, found in the possession
under the control of any person or persons, shall
be taken by the officer ing such search or seiz-
ure, far the is practicable together with
all bottles and drinking glasses vessels found in
the possession under the control of any such
person or persons, and carried before the next
grand jury sitting in said county where said seizure
and search is made, and the same, together with
all evidences of such dumps or appliances for con-
cealing, Disgusting or destroying liquors, shall be
presented to said grand jury for their considers
tion and the shall thereafter be subject to the
order of the court issuing the warrant for said
search and seizure
Section g. Section forty-eight, chapter twenty
seven, revised statutes is hereby amended by strik
ing out the word ''may, = in the fifth and ninth
lines, and substituting the word SHALL and by
striking out the words ''be fined not exceeding
ten dollars, imprisoned not exceeding thirty
days., in the tenth and eleventh lines, and substi-
tuting therefor the words shall be imprisoned not
less than five nor more than thirty days., and by
striking out the words "may be fined not ex-
ceeding twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more
than ninety days" and substituting the words
shall be imprisoned not less than ten nor more
than ninety days Said section is further amend
ming of the second line, and inserting the words
shall be punished as hereinafter provided, and
any person., so that the section, as amended, shall
read as follows:
Section 49, Any person found intoxicated ia
any street or highway shall be punished as herein
after provided, and any person who, being lntoxi-
Gated in his own house, or in any other building
place, becomes quarrelsOme, or in any other way
disturbs the public peace, or that of his own
any other family, so as to render it necessary for
the police peace officers to interfere, shall be
taken into custody by any sheriff, deputy sheriff,
constable, marshal, deputy marshal, police officer
Watchman, and committed to the watch-hOuse,
restrained in some other suitable place, until q
complaint be made and warrant issued in due
form, upon which he shall be arrested and tried,
and if found guilty of being intoxicated afore-
said, he shall be imprisoned not less than five,
more than thirty days For the second offense he
shall be imprisoned not less than ten, nor more
than ninety days. The judge or justice may remit
any portion of said punishment, and order the
prisoner discharged, whenever he becomes salts
fed that the objects of the law and the good of the
public and the prisoner would be advanced there
by. But no part of said punishment shall be re-
mitted, unless the prisoner, under oath, gives in
formation from whom and where he procured the
liquors by which he became intoxicated.
Section Z. Section sixty-two of chapter twenty
seven Of the revised statutes is hereby amended
by adding thereto the following words: State
constabes appointed under this section shall give
bonds, with sufficient sureties, in the of five
hundred dollars for the faithful performance of
their duties, and said cOnStables may be removed
from Office by the governor and council for good
and sufficient reasons, and their placesnay be filled
disappointment, so that said section, as amended,
shall read as follows:
section 81. Upon petition and representation
of thirty or more well known taxpayers in any
county that chapters seventeen and twenty-seven
are not faithfully enforced by county local Off
GERS, the governor and council shall inquire into
such representations, aud if, in their Judgment,
they are well founded, the governor, with the
advice and consent of council, shall appoint two
or more constables for such county, who shall
diligently enforce said chapters and for this pur-
pose such constables shall have like powers and
duties sheyf' and deputies, For such services
such constables shall receive the same compensa-
pointed under this section shall give bonds, with
in no dnl