The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-02-23
QUART MONTH LIQUOR
BILL BECOMES LAW
Compromise Measure After House and Senate Had
Failed TO Accept Previously Offered Measure.
Law Expected to Cut Down Whskey UsedBuf One Quart
Be Ordered Only BY Heads of Households For
Medical Purposes Only


of the common carrier from which de-
livery is desired and that same is the
nearest office of said common carrier
to the residence of the applicant, and
that same is desired for medicinal pur-
poses; or
(b) Applicant is minister, pastor,
priest, rabbi or regularly organized
religious congregation or church, and
the name and location of the church
or congregation for which the same
is desired, and that the same is pur-
chased in good faith to be used for
sacramento or religious purposes, and
no other, the amount and kind of alco-
holic liquors not exceeding one gallon
of wine; or
(c) That the applicant is the head
of a family of the Hebrew faith, is
not minor, the amount and kind of
alcoholic liquors desired not exceed
ing one gallon of wine, and that the
same is desired for religious pur-
poses for use during Passover. This
application shall only be filed during
the month of March of any year.
Upon the receipt of such affidavit
and the payment of fee of 10 cents
the said probate judge shall issue a
permit under his hand and official seal
to receive the alcoholic liquors speci-
fed, which permit shall contain the
name of the consignee, the amount and
kind of alcoholic liquors and the office
of the common carrier from which de-
livery is to be made.
The said probate judge shall keep
a record of all permits issued in a
permanently bound book, in which the
names of the applicants are entered
alphabetically and said permits shall
be numbered consecutively and the
number, the name of the consignee,
the amount of alcoholic liquors, and
the Office of the delivering carrier and
the date of said permit shall be en-
tered on said record.2 The said pro-
bate judge shall, out Of the fees re-
ceived, procure the permits and re-
cords herin required to be kept, and
shall keep the remainder as his COM
pensation for the issuance of the said
permit.
Sec. II. No common carrier shall
deliver any alcoholic liquors to any
person until he has filed with the de-
livering carrier a permit issued as
above provided and dated within two
weeks of said delivery, which permit
shall be Immediately cancelled by said
common carrier.
Sec. -. The making, uttering or
using of any false permit shall con-
stitute the crime of forgery.
Sec. 13. Whoever shall knowingly
transport or convey from one place to
another, or from one person to an
other any alcoholic liquors known by
him to have been illegally sold or pro-
cured, shall receive the same punish
ment as if convicted of the illegal
sale of such alcoholic liquors. Charges
of illegal sale of alcoholic liquors and
illegal transportation thereof may re
joined in the same Indictment.
Sec. IA. 1t shall be unlawful for
any intoxicating liquors to be stored
or kept except for ones own personal
use, or that of his immediate family,
or for religious purposes, and then
only at his usual place of residence
and only when the same shall have
been procured in a lawful manner.
The residence of person shall be
where his family resides, if he has a
family residing in this State, and if
not, at the place where ne usually
sleeps: provided, however, that it shall
be unlawful for any person to have
in his possession or to store or keep,
for any purpose, any quantity of such
liquors in any room in which, or in
connection with which, there is main
tanned or conducted any place of
amusement, club house, fraternity
house, lodge or meeting place, cafe
rest room, store, office, shop or fac
tory, and no such place shall be con-
sidered residence within the mean
ing of this act.
Sec. Is. Storage of any unusual
amount or in an unusual way of any
alcoholic liquors shall be evidence of
violation Of this act.
Sec. 16. 1t shall be unlawful for
any common carrier to deliver to any
minor, or any person not the con-
signee, or to any woman not the head
of family, or to any student of an
institution of learning; or for any mi
nor, or any person not the. consignee,
or any woman not the head of fam
lily, or any student of an institution
of learning to receive any package
containing alcoholic liquors.
Sec. II. The original record which
common carriers are required to make
under the terms of this act shall be
kept in the county in which the deliv-
cry of said alcoholic liquors is made,
and II practicable, at the same office
making delivery, and said common
carrier shall produce such records for
the use and benefit of any officer of