Douglas Island news., 1909-03-10

shall be two thousand dollars per an- mum. and for a barroom or retail H. cense 6ue thousand dollars per annum: Provided, that the fee for a retail Ii. cense for road houses on regular post roads or tails where the population within two miles of the place where the business is to be conducted does not exceed fifty people, or for steamboat or steamer operating on the inland rivers of Alaska during the season of open navigation, shall be five hundred dollars per aunum: Provided, that said steam boat or steame CT shall not be authorized to sell intoxicating liquor while in port or dock: And provided, that the words towns, camps or settle m9nts, as used in this act shall be con- strued to em brace the population with in radius of two miles of the place wherein the business is to be conducted under the license.
 "That a retail or barroom license shall be required for every hotel, tav- ern, boat, barroom or other place in which intoxicating liquors are sold at retail.
 "That wholesale license shall only authorize the licensee to sell distilled, malt or fermeDted liquors, wines and cordials in quantities not less than four gallons; not to be drunk on the premises where, sold; and no such li- ceuse shall be granted until it is satis- factorily shown tbat tAe place where 1t is intended to carry on such business is properly arranged for selling such liquor as merchandise.
 "That every place where distilled, malt or fermented wines, liquors or cordials are sold in quantities as pre- scribed for retail dealers by Section 3244 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to be drunk upon the premises, shall be regarded as bar room; and the possession of malt, dis titled, fermeuted or any other intoxi- eating liquors, with the means and ap- pliances for carrying on the business of dispensing the same to be drunk where sold, shall be prima facie evil dence of barroonf within the meaning of this act, and the license therefor shall be known as barroom license: Provided, that no license shall be granted for the sale of liquors at either wholesale or retail in any other than a substantial building which shall have cost for construction not less than $500.
 Sec. 9. That section 142 of said act of March 3d, 1899, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
 "Sec 142. That if any person shall, without the authority of the United States, or some authorized. officer thereof, sell, barter or give to any h. dian or half breed who lives and asso- ciares with Indians, any spirituous, malt or vinous liquor or intoxicating extracts, such person shall be fined not less than S100 nor more than $500 or be imprisoned in the penitentiary for term not to exceed two years.
 ''That the term Indian in this act shall be construed to include the abor- iginal races inhabiting Alaska when an- nexed to the United States, and their descendants of the whole or half blood, who have not become citizens of the United States.
 "That section 1855 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and all that part of section IA of An act pro- viding civil government for Alaska approved May 17th, 1884, after the word provided is hereby repealed"
 Approved, Feb. 6, 1909.