Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-29
hereby further amended. 20 Is to read as fol-

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consent Of the Council, shall appoint COM
missioner to furnish municipal omcers on Lowus
and cities in this state, with pure, @ so1d
ed, Intoxicating liquors. TO De kep. an s.s r
for medicinal, mechanical and manuIac!9EuuS
purposes. Said commissioner Snail Teslao =.
this state and shall have his place OF D asLvsJ
In this state at such place as shali pc hnId
by the governor and council. and snan noiu
his Office for the term Of four year, uuie -
ooncr removed by the governor Win ln9 NJ
vice and consent Of the council ana nn MN 1 hs
other Is appointed in his stead, ana snad * y
paid an annual salary Of fifteen hundred ao+
lars. payable quarterly ont OF the etate tress.
ury. He shall be allowed reasonable expenses
OF off1ce, and present his account, unoer oatu,
with vouchers therefor to the governor anu
council, annually In December, to the last w
Of the preceding month, who shall audit tne
ury. He shall also be entitled to interest on
the average capital actually invested by MN
N his stock OF liquors, to be determined ny
he governor a nd council
SECT. 2. Tue commissioner shall keep IN
stock, at all times at his said place of business
in this state, sufficient stock of liquors to sup
ply the demands of oil duly authorized town
and city agencies of this state for not exceed
ing two months, and all such agencies shall pc
supplied from said stock SO kept at his SAID
place of business in this state, and from no
other source and in no other manner. II the
governor and council are of opinion that SAID
commissioner is carrying larger amount OF
visions Of this ACT, thew may direct him to dis
continue purchases until said stock Is reduced
to such an amount as they may order. All al
cohol whiskey, brandy, rum and gin hereafter
purchased by such commissioner, otherwise
than in bottles, as hereinafter provided. shall
be analysed at the commissioners place OF
business In this state by competent assayer,
appointed by the governor and council. But
the governor and council may authorize the
purchase, by the commissioner, of any OF SAID
kinds of liquors, in bottles, If deemed expcdl-
ent and in such case may cause the same to be
inspected and tested In such manner as they
may determine. AL other intoxicating liquors
purchased by the commissioner shall be In
spccted, tested or analysed, by a competentas-
saver at said place of business, in such man
ner as the governor and council may direct:
All intoxicating liquors shall be purchased
subject to such analysis, test OF inspection, to
be reshipped to the seller at the sellers ex-
pense, IL found to be impure. The commits
sioner shall not sell such liquors, nor deliver
them to the authorized agencies OF cltles ana
as aforesaid, at the place OF business OF salo
commissioner and found to be pure. me
compensation of such assayers shall pc nxe sa
by the governor and council, and with their
reasonable expenses, shall be paid out OF the
state treasury.
SECT 5. On the back of each invoice ofliquors
sold as aforesaid, to towns and cities, shall be
written or printed copy OF the assayers
analysis, or certificate of Inspection, certified
to by said commissioner, and 1t shall be the
duty of the agents of such cities and towns to
preserve such invoices and certificates for
public inspection, for one year after receiving
the same. Each invoice shall state both the
price actually paid by the commissioner 70, the
liquors, and the price at which they are sold to
the city or town.
SECT. 1. The commissioner is prohibited
bo% Ss HI shall
not sell to municipal officers of this state any
intoxicating liquors, except such as have been
Inspected or tested ana Iouna 10 DE- pure, Ia se
than one hundred or more than five hundred
dollars, to be recovered by Indictment. He shall
take Of such Officers for such pure sn1d f.
them, ten per cent above the cost thereof at the
place where they were by him purchased, and
pay the same over to the state treasurer on or
before the first day of January, annually.
SECT. 5. The commissioner shall on or before
the last day of each month, report to the gov
ernor and council the names OF the towns to
buying for said towns, the kind and quantity
sold to each, and the price paid for the same.
He shall also, at the same time, make report to
the governor and council of all liquors pur-
chased by him, enumerating the different
kinds and the quantity of each kind, price paid
and the terms Of payment, also the names OF
parties of whom the liquors were purchased,
and their place Of business and date of pur-
chase.
SECT. 8. The commissioner shall before
entering upon the duties of his office, give
bond to the treasurer of state, in the penal sum
Of not less than ten thousand dollars, for the
benefit of the state as well as for the benefit OF
such towns as may be injured by breach OF
of his duties and compliance with such regula-
tons and conditions as the governor and cOun-
Gil prescribe. In case of his resignation, re-
moval from office or death, and the appoint
ment of a successor, the stock of liquors
remaining on hand at the time OF his reslgna.
ton, removal or death, shall be taken at cost
by the new commissioner, after the same snail
have been analysed or tested by an assayer, to
be appointed by the governor and council,
and found to be pure; and he shall, before ent-
ering upon his Office, pay for the same in cash,
ora soft la satisfaction
decessor OF his legal representatives.
SECT. Z. Hereafter whenever any town or
city agency shall have been abolished, the
commissioner shall receive back all such
liquors purchased of the liquor commissioner
as they may have remaining on hand, after the
sha have been or ndsr S
conditions and regulations as the governor and
council may prescribe.
SECT. S. The commissioner shall keep q
sample of all spirituous liquors analysed,
labelling the same, and marking them by num-
Der or otherwise, to conform with the assayers
certificate, and shall keep such samples during
his term of office. The governor and council
may cause the commissioners stock to be In
spected at any time by competent assayer.
A committee of the executive council shall
visit the commissioners place of business rs
often as once every six months, and make
careful and complete examination OF the rec
ords of the office, including all the bills of pur.
chases and accounts of sales. The governor
and council shall correct any and all abuses, II
any exist: and refusal on the part of said com
missioner to comply with their order or Qlrec.
tons relative thereto, shall be good and su1h-
cient cause for Immediate removal from office.
SECT. 8. The governor and council are here
by directed to cause an inspection OF the stock
in each town or city agency, at least once In
each year in towns, and twice in each year in
cities, and for that purpose they are hereby
authorized to employ competent aSsayers, and
empower them to enter at such times as they
may be directed by the governor and council,
and without notice, any city or town agency
in this state, to test the purity Of all of the in
toxicating liquors kept therein. And the gov
ernor and council may also authorize such
examination complaint of the municipal
officers in a town and at the expense of such
town. Any assayer making any examination
provided for by this section, shall examine the
invoices of the liquors purchased, and com.
pare his analysis with that written or printed
on such invoices. He shall report Immediately
the result of his examination to the municipal
officers, and also to the governor and council.
SECT. 10. Upon petition and representation,
In writing, to any single justice Of the supreme
judicial court, in term time or vacation, of ten
or more well known tax payers of any city or
town in which o liquor agency is established
that said agency is being conducted In viOla-
ton or evasion of the law creating the same,
specifying in said petition the violation COM
planned of, such justice, after reasonable notice
to said city or town, if, upon hearing, it is
shown that said agency Is not being conducted
in accordance with the law authorizing the
establishment of the same, may order said
agency closed, and the liquors found therein
forfeited to the state.
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