Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-22

day afternoon. Inc work was gone
through with quickly in both branches.
There was comparatively little new
matter of general importance introduced
in either Senate or House. Certainly the
the most interesting measure proposed
was the
Substitute for State Liquor Agency,
An act to provide pure, unadulterated,
intoxicating liquors, for lawful sale within
this State and to repeal sections Is, IS,
H. IS, 10 and 20 of chapter ~, Revised
Statutes, relating to the State agency, for
the sale of intoxicating liquors, which
was introduced by Representative Williams
of Augusta. -
Sec /. For the purpose of lawful sale,
the State shall furnish the municipal Of
ficers of it's towns with pure, unadulter-
ated intoxicating liquors, at the actual
cost of procuring, keeping and dispensing
the same. The Governor and Council
from time to time, shall procure in the
name of the State pure, unadulterated
intoxicating liquors, in convenient re-
ceptaces, and of such kinds and quaint
ties, as may be required; and shall fur
nish municipal officers of towns with the
same in the original, unbroken packages,
to be kept and sold by said towns for
medicinal, mechanical and manufactur-
ing purposes, only.
Sec 9. The Governor and Council
shall designate the place where id lid
uOrs shall be kept and stored and shall
cause all such liquors to be kept and
placed therein in the original unbroken
packages They shall fix the price at
which such liquors shall be sold, in con-
formity with the provisions of this act.
They may employ storekeeper who shall
give bonds approved by them and shall
receive wages at the rate of $1,000 year
and may be removed at the pleasure of the
Governor.
Sec. 3. Said storekeeper shall have
charge of all such liquors in the place
waerc they are stored and shall dispense
tn, same to the municipal officers of towns
where town liquor agencies are established
He shall ship liquors to such munlclpal
officers of such kind and in such quantl-
ties as they may in writing order. such
liquors shall be sold and delivered to the
municipal officers aforesaid in the or'gl-
nal unbrokep packages and not otherwise
Said storekeeper shall keep an accurate
account of the kinds and quantities OF M
uors sold, date of shipment to each town,
the name of each purchaser and the prices
thereof; and on the 10th day of each month
he shall file with the Governor and Conn-
Gil n true COPY of such account for the
month next preceding and shall verify
the same under oath. All money received
by him or any other person from the sale
Of such liquors to municipal officers shall
be turned into the State treasury at the
end of each month. All liquors purchased
under the authority of this act shall be
paid for by warrants duly drawn on the
State treasurer
Sec. 4. The Governor shall issu
to the municipal officers of the
several towns within the State notice OF
the place where the State dispcnsary Is
established for the sale of such liquors
and the name of the storckceper in charge
thereof, and said municipal officers shall
procure at said dispensary of said store
keeper and at no other place and OF nc
other person such intoxicating liquors as
can be lawfully kept and sold by this re-
spcctiye town liquor agent for the pur'
poses herein specified. No person or per
sons except the municipal officers OF towns
shall nurchase or procure of said officer
or of any other person in charge OF salo
dispcnsary any intoxicating liquors fol-
the purposes herein specified or for an!
other purposes whatsoever.
Sec. off a municipal officer buys OF
procures any intoxicating liquors to be
sold according to law, at any other place
or of any other persons except those speoi
fed i'm the preceding section, or II ne VI
any person in his employment, or ny NE
direction. sells, or offers for sale any sucf
liquors that have been dccrced TO DC 10,
feited. or causes any intoxicating or mai
liquors, which he or they keep lor s'iic
to be aduiterated, by mixing with inc SAM
any coloring matter, drug or lngreolelu
or mixes the same with other liquors Oh
different kind, or quality, or WIN wafer
or sells or exposes for sale such liquors .
adulterated, knowing 1t to be such, s"c'
offender forfeits to the town to whicn III
belongs. not less than $50 or more tha'
800, to be recovered by indictment.
See. 8. Agents of towns are hcreo
authorized to sell Intoxicating liquors, IN
Guiding strong beer and malt liquors,
the Inhabitants of their respective TOWN.
and to no other person OF pereoie wi0'
ever, for medicinal, mechanical ana man
ufacturing purposes only. Said agent
shall keep an accurate record in suitanl
book of the kinds and and amount OF nq
uors purchased and placed in their charg.
the price paid for the same and the dat
of each purchase. They shall keep iii'
record Of all such liquors sold by thel
with the date Of each sale, the name
the purchaser, the purposes for when
is purchased the kind and amount soia
each person and the price paid therefor
and on the tenth day of each month sal
agents shall transmit to the Governor an
Council report on blanks furnished Il
the purpose embodying the facts recorde
by them. If any such agent fails to kes
such record or to transmit such record
shall forfeit to the town not less than =
nor more than $50, to be recovered
complaint or Indictment Whosoe'.
knowingly or wilfully misrepresents
any such agent the purposes for which !
purchases any such liquors forfelts 20 o.
use of the town where such agency is e
tablished, not less than $50 nor more Una
$50, to be recovered by complaint or II