The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
REGULAT|0NSFOR
 THE SALOON MEN Excise Board Draws Up Rules Which Must Be
 Posted in Saloons

The rules and regulations of the excise commission under which the saloons of this city and county must be operated were completed yesterday. In % para graphs the commissioners point out their way of regulation and paragraph 9 con cludes with this assertion: "The commits sion expects every person to observe the law, and while 1t does not intend to in any way act as detective or do police duty, it's members reserve the right to make personal inspections to see that the law and its rules are compiled with. ''
 The full set of rules and regulations which must be posted in prominent places in each saloon follow:
 1. Wherever the word "liquors" is here matter used, it shall be taken to mean "spirituous, vinous or malt liquors ?. No wholesale dealer shall sell or dis pose of less than one full quart: import ed liquors in short quarts must be solC by the case and beer not less than two dozen bottles: whisky. in pints, not les than 4S bottles; nor shall he permit any liquor to be drunk in or about his place cf business, except for bona fide sampling purposes.
 g. No spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold or given away, or otherwise disposed of, to any minor, or person of unsound mind, or to any persn of known incorporate habits
 4. No store shall be kept open for the sale of such liquors, nor shall such li- quors be sold on Sundays, or between the hours of Il D. m. and a. m., nor on the day of which any election, state, county or municipal primary election is held, or after 6 o'clock D. m. on the day before such election or primary election.
 5. No gaming of any kind shall be all lowed in or about the premises where the sale of liquor Is licensed.
 6. No retail liquor dealer except bona flde htels and restaurants, shall sell such liquors in room not wholly dis connected from any other business or place of business, and In no case shall there be any device for amusement of any character, and no unreasonable lettering shall be allowed therein.
 I. No merchandise, except liquors, cigars, tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, cigar cite papers. shall be sold in any place where the sale of liquor is licensd, pro vided this does not apply to bona fide
 
 liquor dealers.
 s. Retail liquor dealers, wholesale dealers, bona fide hotels. restaurants and social clubs shall so arrange the room or rooms in which such liquors are kept and those in which such liquors are sold as to exclude therefrom all persons on the days and hours when the sale of liquor Is prohibited by law. and all persons shall be excluded there from on such days and during such hours.
 9. No minor or woman shall be em- ployed or allowed to sell serve liquors.
 10. No retail liquor dealer shall sell, give away or dispose of any liquors to persons of the white race and per sons of the colored race in the same room.
 II. Except as to bona fde hotels res- taurants and social clubs all rooms in which said liquors are sold or disposed of, at retail, shall be on the ground floor of the building in which located, and shall front immediately upon the highway, and there shall be no doors (other than transparent glass doors) screens, partitions or object of any kind which might obstruct the view of any person on the sidewalk into the interior of such place of business.
 F. There shall be no wooden doors or window blinds to such rooms, but all opeings thereto, and the devices for clos ing the same shall be so constructed that full view from the outside can be had of the interior of said rooms, both when they are open and when they are closed,
 13. The entrance to such rooms shall be SO arranged that they are to he closed from the inside, except front oper-, ing thereto, and there shall be no inside connection to said rooms except to toilets), with any other part of the build ing or buildings in which said rooms are located.
 H. That in said rooms there shall be no tables. booths, or other Instructions to a full view to all parts of said room, cx- cept the bar itselg, and no patron of said retail liquor dealer shall go or be al lowed behind said bar
 15. Every alcoholic beverage of any kind, whether sold at wholesale or retail, shall comply with and fulfill every requre- ment of the federal food and drug act of June 30, 1906. and the amendments to said act.
 It. No absinthe, by whatever name designated shall be sold by any person. All forms of fabricated, imitation. or adul- and recruited whisky are strictly prohibit ed from being sold.
 +. No retail dealer shall sell any liquors in quantities less than one quart on credit. and no bottle in which any liquors has been contained shall be filled without hav- ing the original label destroyed and hav-