The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-18

the door or other part thereof and arrest nll persons found therein and carry them Before the officer before whom the War rant is returnable. and thereupon such proceeding shall be had as if the warrant contained the name of each person so ar rested, and a complaint may be framed and filed against the person so arrested, charging them all as principals with the offense within the preceding section. and all persons present at such house and place lettering therein, or drinking there. shall. with the keeper, be deemed guilty of the misdemeanor declared in the pre- ceding section, and are punishable as therein declared
 Sec. Il. 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 intemperance or prohibiting the manufacture. sale or other disposition of prohibited liquors or bever- ages, or the keeping or maintaining any unlawful drinking place, or liquor nui- sance and who fails or refuses to attend and testify in obedience to such sum- mons, without good cause, to be deter mined by the court. is guilty of contempt and also of a misdemeanor and on con- viction of such a misdemeanor must be fined not less than S20 nor more than S3vO and may also be imprisoned in the county jail. or sentenced to hard labor for the COhuty tti Ipl llbIt tidn ttii cC fhtoiihAfos st the discretion of the court or judge try ing the case.
 Sec. 12. The 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 suppression of in temperance committed within their Knowledge during the 12 months next pre- ceding, or as to any violation within the said time of any law of the state prohib- iting the manufacture. sale or other dispo- sition of any of said prohibited liquors or beverages, or the maintaining of any un- lawful drinking place or liquor nuisance, end it shall not be necessary to first spe- cially interrogate the witness as to any particular offense, but witness must not be prosecuted for any offense as to which he testifies before the grand jury, and the solicitor or any member of the grand jury may be witness to prove that fact.
 Sec. 13. The judges of all courts impan- cling grand juries shall give in special charge to said grand jury the liquor laws of the state, and those enacted for the purpose of promoting temperance and suppressng the evils If intemperance, and he shall instruct them to investigate and return indictments against all persons guilty of violating said laws or any pro- vision of them
 Sec. 14. The grand juries shall have no discretion as to the finding of indictments for violations of the provisions of this act, or for violations of the provisions of any law of the state for the promotion of temperance and the suppression of in- temperance, and it shall be their duty, if the evidence justifies it, to find and pre- sent indictments for every such violation.
 Sec 10. That no clerk, servant, agent or employe of any person accused of a 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 q agaInst his principal for the reason that he may thereby incriminate himself, nor shall any principal be excused for the same reason from testifying against any clerk, servant, agent or elnpioye In such case; but no testimony so given by any of said parties shall in any manner in any prosecution be used as evidence di- rectly or indirectly against him, nor shall the party testifying be thereafter prose cuted for any offense so disclosed by him.
 Section 16 That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation engaged fin the business of selling beverages to keep or store on the premises where said beverage business is conducted any pro- hibited liquors or beverages, the sale, of fering for sale, or other disposition of which is prohibited by the law of Ala bama, and any person so violating thls section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and this section is enacted to prevent evasions of the law and to remove oppor- tunlty of evading the law by selling pro- hibited beverages under cover of the legit- innate beverage business.
 Sec. IF. That any person who W1tnln the state solicits or receives any order for spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or any other liquors or beverages prohibited by the law of the state to be sold, or of fered for sale, or otherwise disposed of in this state, in any quantity to be shipped into the state, or to be shipped from one point ir this state to another point in this state, shall be guilty of a misde- neanor, and If such order be in writing rarol evidence thereof is admissible with out producing or accounting for the ab- sence Of the original; and the taking or soliciting such orders is within the inh1- bitlon of this section, although the or ders are subject to approval by some other person and no part of the price IS paid, nor any part of the goods dellV- cred when the orders are taken
 Sec. 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 office of the United States internal revenue collector for the state the name of each person, firm or corporation to whom a umted States internal revenue license, or tax stamp, has been issued as a wholesale or retail liquor dealer, or wholesale dealer or retail dealer in malt liquors. or brew CT or rectifier Q spirits, and the name or each person, firm or corporation that has complied with the laws of the United States to become carry on the business of a Gistller in his county and such sheriff shall immediately thereafter cause to be published for two successive weeks III some newspaper in his county in such black type as will call special attention thereto the names of said parties. to- gether with the location of their places of business, giving street number when obtainsnle For such services the sheriffs shall each receive the sum of $25 per an- mum. and the expense and costs of pub listing the same to be paid out of the general funds of his county. Any sheriff who shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor and shall be 1uushed upon conviction by fine of not less than $50 nor more than $5Oo' ard may in the discretion of Judge or court trying the case be sentenced 10 hard labor for the county for not ex- eeedng six months.
 Sec. 1g That the following are hereby declared to be common nuis- ances and may be designated as liquor nuisances: G), any rooms or struc- lures used for the unlawful manufac'. ture sale, furnishing, distilling, rec tifying, brewing or keeping of liquors Cr beverages that are prohibited by the laws of Alabama to be manufac- tured, sold or otherwise disposed of in this state; (2), all houses. shops or places where such prohibited liquors and beverages, or any of then Io rf h nt1