The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-27
CHAPTER 72S4-(No. 26).


eating Liquors, Wines or Beer From Cor
mon or Other Carrier, Prohibiting the Pc
session Of Such Liquors Hereafter Receive
From Common or Other Carrier, and Pr
hibiting the Shipment and Personal Tran
portation OF Such Liquors Into Counties
Election Precincts in This State Whic
Have or May Hereafter Vote Against til
Sale of Such Liquors, Wines or Beer Fror
Outside This State or Between Points i
This State; With Certain Exceptions; VIII,
Their Intended For Personal Use or Other
wise; and Authorizing the Seizure and Dc
struction of Such Liquors, Wines or Beer
Providing for Fees for Officers in Suc
Cases. and Making Certificate of Clerk O
Circuit Court Best Evidence OF Certain
Facts in Certain Cases.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature OF the Stat
OF Florida:
Section |. That it shall be unlawful for an,
person. firm or corporation to receive, direct
ly or indirectly, intoxicating liquors, wines OF
beer, from common or other carrier, ii
counties or election precincts within this State
which have may hereafter vote against the
sale OF intoxicating liquors, wines or beer, ir
such county or election precinct, whether in
tended for personal use or otherwise, and
whether interstate or intrastate shipments OF
transportation, except as hereinafter provided
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any
person firm or corporation to possess. intoxi.
eating liquors, wines or beer, hereafter re.
ceived, directly or indirectly, from common
or other carrier in the counties or election
precincts OF this State which have or may
hereafter vote against the sale OF intoxicating
liquors, wines or beer in such county or
election precinct, whether intended for person.
al use or otherwise, and whether interstate Or
intrastate shipments or transportation, except
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any
express company, railroad company, or any
common carrier or person to ship or transport
into the counties or election precincts of this
State which have or ma, hereafter. vote aginst
the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer
i'll such county or election precinct, any in
toxicating liquors, wines beer, or from a
place in this State to any county or election
precinct in this State which has or may here
after vote against the sale of such liquors, in
such county or election precinct any intoxi-
eating liquors, wines or beer for any person,
tlrm, club, association or corporation, whether
in original packages or otherwise, and whether
intended for personal use or otherwise, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided.
Sec. a. That it shall be unlawful for any
person to personally transport from without
or within this State into counties or election
precincts in this State which have or may
hereafter vote against the sale of Intoxicating
liquors, wines or beer, whether the same is
intended Tor personal use or otherwise, any
intoxicating liquors, wines or beer in any
quantity whatsoever, except as hereinafter pro.
vided
Sec 5. That nothing in this Act shall make
it unlawful
alcohol and other Intoxicating liquors and
such preparations as may be sold by druggist
Tor the special purpose and in the manner as
now or hereafter provided by law, or. for t
manufacture of medicines that conform to
the provisions of the Pure Food and Drug
Act of this. State and the United States, or
Tor bona hde hospitals or for manufacturers
of perfumery and toilet articles to receive
and possess alcohol, for the use of bona fde
patients of such hospitals, in the manuiac
turing OF such medicines, or favoring extracts,
or perfumery and toilet articles, or for any
common or other carrier to ship or transport
such liquor n alcohol for said 70
such druggists or hospitals, or manufacturers
OF medicines, or of lavoring extracts or of
perfumery or OF toilet articles in the counties
of this State which have or NAV hereafter
vote against the sale of Intoxicating liquors,
wines beer; provided that such consignee
or addressee or his or its duly authorized
agent shall at the time of delivery to him said
alcohol or liquors make an affidavit and de.
liver to such common or other carrier that
such alcohol or liquors is ordered for and
will be used for the purposes specified herein,
and he shall in said affidavit name the purpose
OF those specified herein for which same will
be used and that it will be used for no other
purpose.
(2) For any person for the use of himself
OF for the use of his own family residing
with him. to personally transport to his own
home, or to possess or to receive from any
common carrier or other carrier, shipped from
without the counties or election precincts
which have may hereafter vote against the
sale OF Intoxicating liquors, wines or beer,
toXicating liquor wine and not exceeding
six quarts OF beer or malt where said beer
OF malt does not contain more than five
per centum OF alcohol during any period OF
thirty consecutive days, or for any common or
other carrier to ship or transport to any per.
son in any county or election precinct in this
State which has may hereafter vote against
the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer
for the personal use of such person, or for
the use OF the members of his family residing
with him, not exceeding one quart of intoXi-
eating liquor or wine and not exceeding six
quarts OF beer or malt where said beer or
malt does not contain more than five per
centum OF alcohol during any period OF thirty
consecutive days.
=. 80 For any priest or minister Of any re-
hgious denomination or sect to receive and
possess wines for sacramento purposes, or
Tor any common carrier, or other carrier, to
snip or transport for said purposes to any
priest or minister OF any religious denomina-
ton or sect.
Sec b. That it shall be unlawful for any
express company, railroad company, or any
common or other carrier TO deliver intoxicat-
ing liquors. wines or beer TO any person other
than the consignee or addressee in person of
such shipment or transportation as provided
for in paragraph in Section hereof, and
such common or other carrier and he, it or
their agents are charged with knowledge Of
whether any shipments or transportation carried !
by them contains intoxicating liquors, wines :
or beer, and Of whether the person who repre-. ,
sents TO such common or other carrier that t
he is the consignee or addressee is in fact the
consignee or addressee of such shipment or
transportation and OF whether such addres. S