Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-13


shall pay any penalty that shall be
imposed upon or Judgment that shall
be entered against the applicant by
any court of competent jurisdiction,
for the violation of n provisions OF
this ordinance; which said bond when
executed and approved by said Excise
Board, shall be filed with the City
Clerk for the benefit of said city.
Sec. 8. That no more than II per-
son shall be heard before the Board in
favor of, or in opposition to the grant
ing or transferring of II license,
without the consent of the Board.
Sec. 10. That no licensee to sell
Intoxicating drinks in less measure
than one quart shall be granted for,
or transferred to, a new place within
two hundred feet of a church OF school
house, which two hundred feet shall
be obtained by measurement from the
nearest point of the church edifice or
school house to the nearest point OF
the building wherein the saloon bust
ness is proposed to be carried on, from
the front or main entrance of both,
and no license shall be granted in any
store, apartment or place IN which
any grocery store, or other mercantile
business is carried on, excepting, how
ever, the keeping of o restaurant and
the sale of tobacco and segars by
retail, and any person engaged in the
sale of any of said liquors, directly or
indirectly, contrary to the provisions Of
this section. whether licensed or un-
licensed shall, upon conviction there
of, forfeit and pay the sum of 500 for
each and every violation; and no
license shall be granted for, or trans.
ferred to any new place, if it be
proven to the board that the applicant
therefor shall have sold or permitted
to be sold at such place any intoxicat-
ing drinks, contrary to the provisions
of this ordinance, before the action of
the Board upon his application and
in case a license shall have been
granted for such place. before such
proof is given. the said license shall
upon the production of such proof be
revoked.
Sec. II. That any place which shall
not have had a license for more than
one month snail be considered as u
new place. if application for Il license
at, or q transfer to, such place be
made.
Sec. 10. That the fee of every
license granted as aforesaid shall be
the sum of $3.50. 90 per annum, which
sum shall be paid in full by the appli-
cant to the City Clerk within ten days
after the same il granted, Or at the
expiration of the old license; upon
payment of the said fee the City Clerk
shall deliver to the applicant paying
the same a license certificate, signed
by the President and Clerk of the Ex-
else Board, which shall entitle such
applicant to keep either an inn and
tavern or q saloon and to sell intoXi-
eating drinks either wholesale or ra-
tail, as applied for and granted at the
place named in his application only,
for the period of Ii year from the
date of granting the license, and no
longer.
Sec. 13. That the licensee or trans
fierce shall keep his license certificates
hung up and displayed IN a conspicu-
GUS place in the room where he shall
sell his liquors under the license
granted aud for any omission so do
he shall forfeit and pay a fine of $40
for every such omission and offense.
Sec. ID. That the Clerk of the
Board shall keep complete minutes of
the proceedings of the Board, and
shall also keep in n separate hook, to
be provided for the purpose, a COM
plete record, by wards, of the names
of all persons to whom Licenses shall
be granted, the places where the
~licensee shall be authorized to sell,
the date of granting the license, the
date of the expiration thereof and The
names of the bondsmen, which min
utes and records shall be kept in his
office, open to public inspection. And
the CLERK of the Board shall receive
the sum of two dollars and fifty cents
for every license or transfer from said
applicant for license or transfer.
Sec. Is. That a license duly granted
may be transferred either from person
to person, or from place to place. Be-
fore any such transfer shall be made,
the original license certificate shall be
produced before the Board, and in
case of O transfer from person or per-
sons, the same shall be accompanied
with the written consent of the holder
thereof, if living, to such transfer; il
the Board shall authorize sucn trans.
fer to be made. whether from person
to person or from place to place, the
applicant shall pay to the City CLERK
a transfer fee of $25 within ten days
after the same is granted, and after
such payment the transfer shall be
written across the face of the original
license certificate which shall be sign
ed by the President and Clerk of the
Board which certificate thus trans
ferred shall authorize the grantee tC
continue the business mentioned in
said certificate for the balance Of the
term named therein, either at the
place mentioned in the same or tc
which the same has been transferred,
as the case may be, III the same man
ner as in the first Instance. The
transfer must in all cases be granted
before the removal is made, or a sur
render of the business by tho person
to whom it was originally granted
for a failure to comply with any o
the provisions of this section the BOARD
shall refuse to grant the transfer.
Sec. 16. That the provisions of thi:
/, ordinance shall not apply to the sale
!, of liquors upon physicians Drescrip'
tions, by any registered druggist OF
pharmacist, as per Section 10, Chapter
SO, Laws of 1889.