The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-07-15

members OF said firm. which appli-
cation shall lay over thirty days at
least. before final action thereon
and license shall I've granted. unless
\ counter petition, signed Ivy MA.
iority Of the qualified voters within
such district nr Incorporated town
shall he filed within thirty days
next after the filing Of any such op-
plication for license. And in case
license he granted said applicant, he
shall before commencing the sale of
such liquors, pay the tax and give
the bond as now provided in chap
ter 80. Revised Code 1880. Provid-
ed further, That if such application
for license he contested, either party
may appeal from the decision OF the
Board Of Supervisors or municipal
authorities TO the Circuit Court, on
giving bond for costs. And pro-
vided further, that no election held
under the provisions of this Act,
shall in any manner, whatever the
result, he so construed as to inter
fere with the license or privilege of
any person until the expiration of
bis term.
SEC. Z. That the Act in relation
To the sale of vinous and spirituOus
liquors, as found in Revised Code Of
1880, and Acts amendatory thereof,
shall govern and control the grant
ing and issuance Of license to sell
such liquors, and all private acts, or
acts of local application, shall be in
force until the election contemplated
in this Act shall be ordered and
held. Provided, that in no case
shall this Act he construed TO repeal
any laws prohibiting the sale of any
Intoxicating liquors at Oxford,
Starkville, Clinton, or at any other
place where there may be any insti-
buttons of learning chartered by
legislative enactment, or manufac-
tory where such sale is now prohibi-
ted
SEC. s. That any person who
shall violate the provisions of this
act, shall be guilty of misdcmea-
nor, and shall on conviction he pun
nished for the first offense by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars, and by
Imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding sixty days and for the
second offense Try fine Of one hun
dred dollars and imprisonment in
the county Jail for four months; and
for the third, or other offenses, by a
fine of FIVE hundred dollars aud i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for
six months. The selling of liquors
in violation of this Act, shall also
be a nuisance, and the same may be
abated by an appropriate proceed
ing at law, or enjoined on the appli-
cation OF any citizen of this State by
Chancery Court of the proper coun-
", and there shall be no property in
any Intoxicating liquors kept or
offered for sale in violation of law.
SEC. 9. That nothing in this Act
shall he so construed as to prevent
the manufacturer of wine or cider for
domestic or sacramental purposes,
nor shall anything herein contained
prevent licensed druggists from sell
ing or furnishing pure alcohol for
medicinal, art, scientific or mechani-
cal purposes; and for every sale of
wine, the seller shall he guilty of q
misdemcanor, and may hr punished
as provided by section s Of this Act
in reference to violations thereof,
and nothing herein contained shall
prevent physicians of good standing
in this State, from Keeping vinouS,
spiriluous or malt liquors for use in
their practice, and dispensing the
same for the use Of their patients {;
Provided, however, no such liquors
, shall be kept by physicians at any
drug store or other public place, or
disposed of in quantities of more
than one pint, and il shall be unlaw-
full for them to sell it at all.
SEC. 10. That this act shall take
effect and oc in force from and after
it's passage.
Approved March, II, 1886.