Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — The Temperance Rill. [ARTICLE]

The Temperance Rill.

The following are the main points in the temperance bill passed by the House on Thursday of last week : 1. License shall be issued by the Commissioners. 2. Intoxicating liquor is interpreted to mean any intoxicant that may be used as a beverage. 3. Notice must be given the public through the press of application for li- . cense twenty days before the meeting of the board, and it shall be the privilege of any voter to remonstrate on account of the immorality of the applicant. 4. The applicant is required to give & bond in the sum of $2,009 that he will keep an orderly house, and pay all the fines aud costs assessed against him. If the applicant is in the habit of becoming intoxicated, license shall in no case be issued to him. 5. If the applicant desires to sell spiritous, vinous aud malt liquors, iu quantifies les3 than a quart at a time, to be dfank on the premises, he shall pay to the Treasurer of the county SIOO as a license fee for oueycar, before license shall be issued to him. And if he desires to sell only vinous or mult liquors, or both, in quantities less than a quart, shall pay to said Treasurer a fee of SSO, Buck fees to be applied and expended for common school purposes, the same os other school funds. 6. No city or incorporated town shall charge any person who may obtain a license under the provisions of this act more than the following sums for license to sell within their corporate limits: Cities may charge the sum of SIOO and incorporated towns SSO in addition to the

sums privhled for above. 7. Tl»e n;ini®*wt place of (be bwnUM 8. No license shall be granted for a greater or less term than one year. 8. Liquor shall not be sold unSunday, legal holidays or election days, nor from lip. m. to SA. m. In the event of a violation of these provisions, thp .seller shall be deemed guilty ofambdemeanor, and forfeit andtaftatt taftned i© any sum not lees than 8 Iff or more than 1 SSO. .. 10. For selling to a person who is to the habit of becoming intoxicated the seller gbtß be subject to a"like fine. *’• * * 11. For selling without license the shall be fined S2O or SIOO nqd imprisoned thirty days or six months. 12. For selling to a minor the seller is subject to a fine of $lO or SSO. f 13. A minor misrepresenting his age shall he subject to a fine of $lO or SSO, 14. For selling to an intoxicated individual the seller shall be fined $lO or SSO. 15. Any person who shall adulterate or offer for sale adulterated liquors shall be fined SSO or SSOO, and subject to imprisonment for thirty days or six months. 16. Disorderly premises where liquors are sold shall be declared a nuisance, the keeper to forfeit his license. 17. Circuit and Criminal Circuit Courts, within their respective jurisdictions, shall have power to determine all complaints of violations of the act. It shall be the dnty of grand juries to take cognisance of such cases as in case of felonies. 18. J ostices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction, except as provided in section 16. If the opinion of the justice or jury, $25 is not adequate punishment for the offense, the offender shall be bound over by the justice to the Criminal Court. 19. All former laws conflicting -with this are repealed. 20. An emergency clause.