Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-11-10

lis exempt from the sale for medical
purposes, and it cannot be secured in
this city as n medicine except pure al
cohol on prescription.
3. Druggists are required to have
three licenses: G) for making their
own extracts; (2) for wholesale to
druggists ard manufacturers; (3)for
bill.
A. Every wife, child, parent, guar
dian or employer, or other person who
shall be injured in person or prop
erty or means of support by any in
toxicated person, in consequence of
his intoxication, shall have right of
action against any person who. by
selling, bartering, or irving away in
toxicating liquors, caused the intoxi-
cation of such person, for damages
actually sustained, as well as for
exemplary damages. That is to say,
J if a man drinks to intoxication in the
home of another, and then gets in an
automobile and Injuries you, the per-
damages from the one who gave away
the liquor in his home (Scc sec
ton 74).
8. Hotels may have intoxicants for
culinary and massarging purposes, I'M
der the provisions of this act. The
hotel is heavily bonded and the penalty
is severe.
What One Cannot DO.
1t is easier to enumeratc the things
| you can do than it is to enumcrate
the things YOU cannot do under the
prohibition bill. There are Il few
things that YOU can do-therc are
great MANY things you cannot do.
! l. One cannot sell intoxcants any.
where in the state to anybody as
beverage. The place of sale is deemed
made, and prosecutions may be where
the purchaser resides or from which
the shipment is made
| 2. One cannot have it anywhere
except in bona lide home-not in
clubs, b0arding-houscs, cars, boats,
airships, or what not.
3. One cannot have more than one
gallon of ardent spirits or one OF wine
or three of beer in his home, and the
possession of more is prima facie evil
dence of guilt. The Supreme Court
of Alabama recently decided that one
could not order an additional quantity
if he had i'll store in his home al
ready what the law allowed.
Section 81 of our law may be in
terpeted to mean that if more than
one gallon of ardent spirits is in stor-
age in the home. it is against the law
ITO give away any whatsoever.
A. One cannot drink anywhere ex-
cept in a home or away from public
!. placc-not in the streets. parks, al
, leys-nowhere but the home and the
woods
5. One cannot sell nor give to Il
Idrunkard, minor, or person of mar
cotic habits.
=. minor cannot receive intoXi-
cants from anyone except Il parent
or guardian, and the possession by
him of anv quantity is msdemeanor
Students of State university or II
college of State are not permitted
to order liquor, and it is against the
law to give it to them.
Z. female, unless she be The
. head of house, can neither order
nor possess nor convey intoXicants.
8. No person can convey intoxi-
cants from one place to another place
IN the State, except common car
rier, or the purchaser OH the way
from the common carrier to his home
or the agent of the purchaser who
is not Il minor nor n female, and who
has written order to the express
company.
8. No person can bring more than
/ one quart into this State or carry it
. through this State, and, if it is taken
into hotel, he cannot uncorli it
there.
IL. One cannot advertise intoXi-
cants in any way in this State, and re-
ports sent out by the liquor dealers
concerning the failures of prohibition
in other States, which they pay for,
must be marked paid advertisement.
II. One cannot transport in this
State by wagon, buggy, automobile, or
other vehicle, intoXicantS, and officers
suspecting such violations of the law
NAV. upon warrant, search the We
hicle, seize the ardent spirits, and
take possession of the vehicle, and
report to the Commonwealth at
torney.
ID. One cannot store intoxcant.;
. in buildin". boat, ear or other
place, nor in his own home for an
other person. The people ought TO
understand that it is strictly against
the law to allow another to keep in
toxicants in their homes after Tues
day night. Oct 81.
The penalties for violation of the
law are severe. The campaign custer
bill subjects to the removal from Office
any officer who shall knowingly Of,
/ willfully neglect to perform his duty.
2 Unless otherwise specially provid
ed, the penalty for violating any sec
ton of this law is fine of not less
than fifty and not more than five
hundred dollars for the first act and
confinement in Jail for not less than
one nor more than six months.
For the second or subsequent Of
fence, not declared felony, the pen
atty is q fine of not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five
thousand dollars and Imprisonment in
Jail for not less than six months nor
more than one wear.
When the violation is declared a
/ felony, the penalty is confinement in
the penitentiarv for not less than one
. nor more than five years, or, in the
discretion of the jury, for not less
, than six months nor more than twelve
!, months and a fine not exceeding five
. hundred dollars.
: Ardent spirits are defined in sec
, ton i to mean anything containing
more than one-half of l per cent of
alcohol by volume.