The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-13
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City Council
Continued from last week.

urer. Licensed under this ordinance
who shall knowingly file or suffer to
be fed false statement of the ag-
gregate amount Ct goods, wares and
merchandise, OF raw materials and
finished products, tools, machinery,
and appliances. required to be filed,
shall. upon conviction, forfeit his IL
cense, and be deemed guilty Of a
misdemeanor. and upon conviction
thereof. shall be punished by fine of
not less TINA twenty-five dollars
(S25. O1) and not more than one hun
dred dollars (S1O0) or by imprisOn-
ment in the city Jail not exceeding
three months.
Section u. Licensed Merchant or
Manufacturer Must Deal or do Bust
ness Where. No license granted by
virtue of this ordinance shall author
ize any merchant or manufacturer to
engage in his business at more than
one place within the city of Cape
Girardeau, nor for longer period
than twelve (12) months.
Section % City Clerk to Call for
License. When it shall be the duty
of the city clerk to call at least as
often as once in every three months
on all merchants or manufacturers
who are required by this. ordinance
to take license and offer to furnish
such as have no license with license
and the city clerk shall report to the
city attorney the names and locali-
tie of all persons who refuse to take
out or renew their license at the
proper time, as required by this or
dinance.
Section %. Bond to be Given ana
Tax to be Paid in Certain Cases.
When any merchant or manufacturer
shall commence his business in this
city after the first Monday in June
in any year, he shall execute bond
as provided for in sections 9 and IL
Of this rd.nance, conditioned that he
VIII on the first day of November
next succeeding furnish to the asses
sor Of the city statement verified as
herein required of the largest amount
of goods, wares or merchandise, or
raw material and finished products,
machinery and appliance. which he
had on hand or subject to his control.
whether owned by him or consigned
to him for sale, on the first day of
any month between the time when he
commenced business and the said
first day of November next shcteedt
ing; upon which statement he shall
pay the same rate of tax rs other
merchants and manufacturers, to be
estimated as tie time from the day
on which he commenced / lsiness to
the first Monday in June next succeed
ing snail be to Gle year.
Section "a. Penalty for Violating
Of Ordinance. Any person, firm
company or corporation violating any
of these provisions of any section of
TINS ordinance where no penalty is
prescribed by such lection shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined
not less than twenty-five ($2o) dol
lars nor more than one hundred
tS1O0) dollars or by Imprisonment in
the city Jail not less than ten (1Ol
days, nor more than three months or
by such fine and Imprisonment.
ARTICLE Ill.
Dramshops.
Section L. Dram Shop keepers
Defined. A dram shop keeper is a
person permitted b. law, being IL
censed according TO the provisions of
this ordinance, to sell intoxicating
liquors i'll any quantity not exceeding
ten gallons.
Section 2. License to be Obtained.
Intoxicating liquors in any quantity
less than ) gallons without taking
out a license as a dramShop keeper.
provided. that nothing in this section
shalt be SO construed as to prevent
the sale of wine for sacramental
purposes, or intoxicating liquors
when sod by licensed druggists or
pharmacists for medical purposes, or
Intoxicating liquors when sold by IL
ccnscd druggists or pharmacists for
medicinal purposes, upon a written
prescription of some regularly regis
tered and practicing physician. Pro
vided further. that intoxicating IL
quors, may be sold in any quantity
not less than one gallon at the place
where made, but the maker or seller
shall not permit or suffer
the same to be drunk at the place of
sale, nor at any place under the con-