The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-30
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted By the Legislature of
 Alabama.

place are unknown 10 the person nldh-
 ing the complaint, it Is the duty of such
 justice or judge to issue forthwith q
 warrant of arrest for such party for
 the offense charged in the complaint
 and immediately place such warrant in the hands of a constable or sheriff,
 or chief of police, or police officer, who shall proceed at once to the place in which such violation of the law is al-
 legged to have occurred, or to be oc-
 curing. and arrest all persons there in, and If such person executing the
 warrant is refused admittanee, he shall force an entrance into the house or
 other place, and if necessary break in
 the door or other part thereof and ar
 rest all persons found therein and
 carry them before the officer before whom the warrant is returnable, and
 thereupon such proceedings shall be had as If the warrant containued the name of each person so arrested and a complaint may be framed and filed against the persons so arrested, charg-
 ing them all as principals with the offense within the preceding section,
 and all persons present at such house
 and place lettering therein, or drink
 ing there, shall with the keeper, be
 deemed guilty of the misdemeanor de-
 clared in the preceding section and
 are punishable as therein declared. H. That any person who Is sum-
 moned as a witness before the grand jury to answer as to any violation of ' law for the suppression of intemper- ance, or prohibiting the manufacture. | sale or other disposition of prohibited l liquors, or beverages, or the keeping | or maintaining any unlawful drinking | place, or liquor nuisance and who falls | or refuses to attend and testify in obe | dience to such summons, without good I14- I Is guilty of contempt and also of a misdemeanor and on conviction of such | misdemeanor must be fined not less | than twenty nor more than three hun | dred dollars and may also be impris ! oned in the county jail or sentenced to | hard labor for the county for not more ! than three months, at the discretion | of the court or judge trying the case. | 12. That witnesses before the grand | jury to give evidence may be required
 to answer generally as to any offense | against the laws of Alabama for the promotion of temperance and the sup 1 pression of intemperance committed l within their knowledge during the twelve months next preceding, or as to | any violation within said time of any 1 law of the State prohibiting the manu-
 facture sale or other disposition of 1 any of said prohibited liquors or bev-
 
 | lawful drinking place or liquor nuis- 1 ance, and it shall not be necessary to | first specially interrogate the witness | es as to any particular offenses, but l witness must not be prosecuted for | any offense as to which he testifes be- fore the grand jury; and the solicitor
 or any member of the grand jury may ! be witness to prove that fact.
 13. The judges of all courts empan- | grand eyiu in ahor to said grand jury the liquor laws of the State, and those enacted for the purpose of promoting temperance and suppressing the evils of intemperance, and he shall instruct them to investi- | gate and return indictments against | all persons guilty of violating said laws, or any provision of them
 | A. That grand juries shall have no discretion as to the finding of in- l dictments for violations of the pro- vision of this act, or for violations of 1 the provision of any law of the State l for the promotion of temperance and
 the suppression of intemperance, and
 1t shall be their duty, if the evidence | Justifes 1t, to find and present indict- | ments for every such violation
 | 15. That no clerk servant, agent or | employe of any person accused of violation of the laws to promote tenn | perance and to suppress intemperance, | or prohibiting the sale, manufacture or | other disposition of liquors or bever- | ages shall be excused from testifying | againN his principal for the reason l that Ne may thereby incriminate him | self, nov shall any principal be ex- | cused for the same reason from testi- l flying against any clerk, servant, agent ! or employe in such cases; but no l testimony so given by any of said par | ties shall in any manner in any pros- | ecution be used as evidence directly | or indirectly against him, nor shall the | party testifying be thereafter prose- | cuted for any offense so disclosed by l him.
 1 16. That it shall be unlawful for | any person, firm or corporation en- | gagged in the business of selling bev- erages to keep or store on the prem | ises where said beverage business Is l conducted any prohibited liquors or beverages, the sale, offering for sale, | or other disposition of which is prohib-
 ited by the law of Alabama, and any person so violating this section shall I be guilty of a misdemeanor: and this l section is enacted to prevent evasions
 of the law and to remove opportunity
 of evading the law by selling prohib- | tied beverages under cover of the le- l gitimate beverage business.
 IT, That any person who within | this State solicts or receives any or l der for spirituous, vinous or malt H. | quors, or any other liquors or bev- erages prohibited by the law of the | State to be sold, or offered for sale, or otherwise disposed of in this State, | in any quantity to be shipped into this
 State, or to be shipped from one point | in this State to another point in this ! State, shall be guilty of a misdemean- or; and If such order be in writing | parol evidence thereof Is admissible 1 without producing. or accounting for | the absence of, the original; and the
 taking or soliciting of such orders is within the inhibition of this section, all 1 though the orders are subject to ap- | proval by some other person and no part of the price is paid, nor any part l of the goods delivered when the or | ders are taken.
 | IS. That the sheriffs of the various | counties shall at least once every | month, between the first and tenth
 days of the month, procure from the I office of the United States Internal
 revenue collector for the State the | name of each person, firm or corpora
 tion to whom United States internal
 revenue licenses. or tax stamp. has
 been issued as wholesale or retail 1 liquor dealer. or wholesale dealer
 or retail dealer in malt liquors. or a
 brewer or rectifer of spirits, and the
 name of each person. firm or corpora 1 ton that has complied with the laws
 of the United States to become or carry | on the business of dstiller in his 1 county, and such sheriff shall immedi- | ately thereafter cause to be published | for two successive weeks in soma news-