The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-15

To be entitled an ordinance to provide for the destruction of liquors and beverages kept for sale in violation of law or for other illegal purposes, and that may be declared to he eon- traband, and to provide method 0f judicial1y determining whether or not such liquors and beverages shall he destroyed cOntraband.
 Be it ordained, by the city commission of the city of Birmingham as follows: Section 1. That when the custodian or
 captured and stolen property shall deem it necessary expedient, he may cause to be judicially determined the question as to whether or not any prohibited liquors and beverages (the term 'prohibit- ed liquors and beverages as used in this
 ordinance having the same definition as is given in section one of ordinance 325-C) heretofore or hereafter seized in any manner by the police authorities of the city of Birmingham, shall be destroyed as contraband in the manner and accord ing to the procedure hereinafter set out in this ordinance.
 Sec g. The custodian of captured and stolen property shall file in the recorder $ court statement in writing containing brief description of such prohibited liquors and beverages and the names or the several owners thereof, when known to him, and when unknown to him, glv- l ing the name of the owner thereof as owner unknown" Such statement shall be verified by the custodian of captured and stolen property, but such verihcatlon may be as upon his information and be- lief Such statement shall also contain an averment to the effect that the cus- todian of captured and stolen property deems it necessary or expedient that 1t be judically determined whether or not the prohibited liquors and beverages de- scribed in said statement shall be de, I,,, CafI atu fat ant shall also contain an averment to the effect that in the belief of affiant when l said prohibited liquors were seized by 1 the police authorities they were kept for sale in violation of law or for other illegal purposes.
 Sec. g. Upon the filing of such statement the recorder in whose court such state ment is filed shall set a day for the hearing of the matters set out in such statement, of which hearing the clerk of the recorders court shall give at least twenty days notice by causing to be published one time in any daily news paper published in the city of Brming- ham, copy or substantial copy of said statement, together with a brief notice requiring all parties interested to appear on the day set for hearing and show cause, if any they have, why said pro- 1 hibited liquors and beverages should not be destroyed as contraband.
 | Sec. 4. On or before the time specified l in said notice any person claiming any right. title or interest in said prohibited 1 liquors and beverages may interpose a verified answer controverting the allega- ! tions of the said statement and shall propound in such answer what right l title or interest he claims in the said prohibited liquors and beverages or any l of them. The issue thus framed shall 1 be deemed an action pending in the re | corder's court between the city of Bir- l ningham on the relation of the GUS
 l todan of captured or stolen property and
 l the prohibited liquors and beverages SC
 l described. and against the party who in
 1 terposes the claim and may be entitled ! in the name of the city of Birmingham
 1 against said party so appearing, if any
 and if no one appears, may be entitled as against said liquors and beverages, adding for Identification the name of the person or persons mentioned in the said