Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1855 — Ohio Liquor Law. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Liquor Law.

y. Since ’ the ipassage of the Ohio Liquor Law was so strongly Urged ’by a pqftion of our Legislators, as,a substtme for fob, sol q already adopted, many of pur ..readers have been anxious for its publication. eWe are -pleased-with- of the opinion that it wilj more effectually Secure its object than one more stringent in itschara-tcr.- This however is merely our ..own opinion.--Time must te.t the matter. That our readers may learn the provisions and the penalties of this sow we give foe folio wing synopsis: j: The recent decision of foe Ohio Supreme Court, establishing the constitutionality of the liquor f law of thab State, in levery contested point has createdthc greatest constwnftticm among dealiiM in Cincinnati; The principle landlords together with the proprietors .of thflsbetter class of doggeriejwMhflfftSt. Charles,’ TelLdnd others—have had several meetings at the Burnet House, to devise ways and means for evading or resiertifcg: it. ‘No definite course of fiction has yet-been decided upon.— In the frieanwhile the business is almost entirely suspended; several establishments have sold out their fixtures and quit. .

' 1 Sec. Ist, Makes -it unlawful, -for any perron to sell liquor to be drank in or about t'he : premises where-Fold. See. 2d and 3d, prohibits liquor being sold to minors, intoxicated persons or those in the habit of getting intoxicated: - ' Set. 4th, declares places where liquor is sold-, in violation of the law,' public nuisances and to be abated as such. Sbc. sth, for any person To get intoxicated, and fixes the penalty at three days imprisonment, and five dollars fine. Sec. 6th provides that any person causing the intoxication of another person, shall be liable therefor, and damages for taking care of said intoxicated person may be reeevßrcd.’ Sec. 7th, provides; that arivex, children, employers, &c.~, who shall suffer in any manner on account of the intoxication of any person, shill have a right to, against the person causing intoxication, exemplary See. Sth; fixes as thn penalty for the violation of the Ist, 2d, and 3d, sections, a fine of from twenty to fifty dollars (with cost of prosecution.) and irdprisopfltent front ten to .thirty., days’; and for every Molation bf the 4th section, a fine of from fifty to one hundred dollars, and , imprisonment from twenty to:fifty days; such places to be shut up until the keeper shall give bond in the .sunTof one thousand dollars not to again violate the laws of the State; provided that the Ist and 4th sections shall riot extend to native (Ohio) wine, beer, ale or cider. ‘

S3Sec. provides that the giving away of liquor, or any other shift or device shall be deemed an unlawful selling. Sec. lOfli prbViflfes (hat the premises where liquor is sold shall be liable for fines arid -costs, event though rented or leased. ’ . « Sections«th arid 12th, recite the manner of proceedingto Cnforcefhe See. 13th, mftk& it necessary to state the kind of liquor £dld;'to describe the placewUterußold, or to give the name of the persow to whom sold; and also make? ft? lattera tent witness.