Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — Quart Temperance Law. [ARTICLE]

Quart Temperance Law.

The following is a synopsis of the act : which passed both branches of the Legisla- ; ture and has received the signature of the Governor, “to regulate and license the sale ot spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, and to prohibit the adultera-I tion of liquors:” No person shall sell or barter, directly or : indirectly, any intoxicating liquors less than a quart at a time, without at first having ! procured a license; the word “intoxicating ' liquor” shall apply to any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor, which is used or mav be used as a beverage; any white male inhabitant desiring to obtain license shall give notice of the precise location of the premises where i he desires to sell, at least twenty days be- | fore the meeting of the County Commission- ' ers from whom he intends to apply for a license; applicant to be a man of good character, and fit to be trusted with a license. ' and to give bond with at least two freehold I sureties, residents of the county, to be approved by the Auditor” in the sum of §s<>o that he will keep an orderly house and pav all fines assessed against him tor any violation of the act; to pay to County Treasurer §SO as a fee for license for one year, to be applied to the Common School fund; no license to be granted tor less than one year: ' the license under the act does not author- | ize the selling or bartering of any intoxicating liquors on Sunday, to any person under the age of twenty-one years, to, a person j ir. a state of intoxication, nor upon the day of any State, county, township or municipal election; “every person who shall directly or indirectly, knowingly sell, barter or give away any intoxicating liquor to any person who is in the habit of being intoxicated, alter notice shall h ve been given him by the wife, child, parent, brother or sister of’such person, or by the overse r or overseers of poor of the township where he resides, that that such person is in tlie habit o being intoxicated, shall be deeinpd guilty of a misde- I meaner, and upon conviction thereof be fined not less than §5, nor more than §50;” anv person or persons not being licensed wh’> shall sell intoxicating liquors, in violation of the provisions of the act, shall be fined not less than §5 nor more than §lO9, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for any determined peried not exceeding thirty days; any person who shall sell, barter or give away intoxicating liquors to a person under twenty-one years of age, or to any person at the time in a state of intoxication, to be fined not less than §5 or more than §lO, and imprisonment in the county jail may be added, not exceeding 30 days; the adulterating or the selling ot any adulterated Ijquors, to be fined not less than §SO or more than §SOO, to which imprisonment in the county jail may be added, nut exceeding three months; all places where intoxicating lizuors are sold, in violation of this act, sh ill be deemed common nuisances, and the keepers fined not less than §SO or more than §2OO and imprisonment not ex- i ceeding three months—but no prosecution is to be instituted fur any violation of the act between the time it shall take effect ami the close of the fi st regular session of the Board of Commissioners of the proper county thereafter, the beginning of which session not taking place in less than four weeks after this act shall have taken effect; the Circuit and Common Pleas courts to have jurisdiction to hear and determine all complaints under the act, and it is made the duty ot the Grand Jury to take cognizances of ail offences against its provisions, as in case of felonies; Justices ol the Peace io have jurisdiction also, but in all cases where §25 ; is deemed to be an inadequate fine, the party offending shall be recognized to appear i at the next term ol any court having competent jurisdiction; the Common Councils: ol cities and the board of trustees o.i incorporated towns can enforce a lee for license from all keepers of coffee-houses or other places where intoxicating liquors are sold and drank within the limits ot their respective corporations in add tion to the fee for license under this act; an emergency’ is declared to exist, and is to be in force from and after its publication in the Journal and Sentinel.