The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31
BILL ID REVOKE
 AGENCY LICENSE Foreign Liquor Dealers Ex-
 cIuded from State UNDER PROPOSED LAW Such Agency Violating Law Will For felt 5000 to the State for Each Day Such Business Is Conduct
 ed-Full Text of Bill.
UNDER PROPOSED LAW

Montgomery, July 30.-(Special.) .)-This Is
 A. bill to prevent foreign corporations
 from violating laws which domestic cor--
 porations and individuals must keep:
 An act to revoke the license or right
 to engage In or carry on any business' or to have any agency or place of busi-
 ness in this state. of any foreign corpora ton which is authorized by it's charter to
 manufacture, sell or otherwise diS-ose or alcoholic, spurious, vinous or malt liquors, or any liouor or beverage prohibited by the law of Alabama to be manufactured, sold
 or otherwise disposed of In this state, or which is engaged in the manufacture
 or sale of such liquors, or any of them, in the state of it's creation or elsewhere, or which is engaged In or carries on in the state of it's creation, or elsewhere, any
 business which is unlawful for any do- nestle corporation or citizen of Alabama to engage In or carry on in ths state; and to prohibit the entry of such Tor eign corporation into this state and the grant to them by any officer of the state of Alabama a license to engage in busi- ness of any kind or to have any agency or place of busniess in this state, and to
 prescribe penalties for the violation or this act.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the legisla-
 ture of Alabama that the license or right
 of any foreign corporation now engaged
 in or carrying on business of any kind in this state which corporation is au- thorized by it's charter to manufacture, sell or otherwise dispose of alcoholic spurious, vinous or malt liquors or any liquor or beverage prohibited by the law. of Alabama to be ma nufactured, sold or
 h, n a IF which Is engaged in the manufacture,
 or sale of such liquors, or any of them,
 in the state of it's creation or elsewhere,
 or which is engaged In or carries on in the state of its creation or elsewhere any business which Is unlawful for any domestic corporation or citizen or Ala bama to be engaged in or carry on in this state be and the came Is hereby revoked and canceled and 1t shall be unlawful for any foreign corporation SO authorized bv its charter to manufacture. sell or otherwise dispose of alcoholic, spiritous vinous or malt liquors, or any liouor or beverage prohibited by the law of Alabama 10 he manufactured. sold or otherwise disposed of In this state. or
 in the manufacture or sale of such linuors or any of them in the state of it's creation or otherwise. or SO engaging in or carving on in the state of its creation or elsewhere such business, to enter into this state. or to engage Tn or carry on business of any kind t this
 state. or to have any agency or place Of , business in this state: and no permit or
 license to engage in or carry on business of any kind In this state or to establish an agency or rlace of business in this
 state shall he issued granted to any
 si,ch foreign corporation by any officer of this state.
 Sec q That any such foreign corpora ton that shall hereafter engage in or transnct ar- business 'n this state. shall
 for each offenso forfeit and nay to the state the sum of s1n0n. and the carrying
 on or transs cting business. or the main
 taining of an agency or place of business for each separate day that it occurs shall be and constitute separate unlawful act and for each such act said forfeiture
 shall accrue to the state.
 Sec 3 That 1t shall be unlawful for any
 person to act as agent for, or to trans act any business directly or indirectly in this state for or on behalf or any such foreign corporation, and any persons so doing shall for each offense, or each act of business transacted, be guilty of A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50. to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail or hard labor for the county at the discretion of the court or judge trying the case, for not less than three months nor more than six months.
 Sec. 4. The forfeiture provided for in this act shall be sued for and recovered In the name of the state of Alabama by the solicitor of the circuit or county in which the offense Is committed; and when col lected must be paid by the solicitor into the state treasury for use of the state less 25 per cent to be retained by such solicitor for his services. The attorney