| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
a license to any person to retail spirituous liquors, strong beer or
cider, in Kent county, unless the person applying for such license
shall, at the time of his or her application, exhibit to the said court
or judge the consent and approbation in writing of fifty of the free
white male inhabitants of the said county, above the age of twenty-one
years, who shall be residents in the election district of said
county in which such application proposes to retail, and twenty of
whom shall reside within eight miles of the said place, which consent
shall express the name of the person to be licensed, and the
place at which the applicant proposes to retail. |
1818.
CHAP. 170. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person selling
any of the liquors
above mentioned in Kent county, under the quantity of ten
gallons at any one time, shall be deemed a retailer, and no retailer
shall retail less than a pint of the liquors above mentioned at any
one time. |
Persons selling less
then ten gallons at
one time deemed a
retailer. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
deemed, construed or taken, to prohibit the maker, distiller, or
brewer of any spirituous liquors, beer or cider, in Kent county,
from retailing the same, such person not selling less than one quart
at any one time. |
Distillers, &c. not
prohibited from
retailing, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the first day of
June next, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell any of the
liquors
above mentioned, nor to sell, buy or barter, any wheat, corn,
rye, oats, bacon, or any goods, wares or merchandise, or personal
property whatever, in Kent county, to, of, with or from, any negro
or mulatto slave, or servant, or any free negro or free mulatto,
between sun-set and sun-rise of the succeeding morning; Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall prohibit any person from selling,
buying or bartering, any article or thing whatever in the said county,
to, of, with or from, any servant or slave, who shall have a
mistress, overseer, or other person in whose employment such
servant or slave may actually be with the consent of his or her
owner or owners. |
Not lawful to sell
liquors to, or buy
from negroes after
sun-set.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall
prohibit any person from selling, buying or bartering, any article
or
thing whatever, in the said county, to, of, with or from, any free
negro, or free mulatto, who shall at the time have obtained a certificate
of his or her good character, and permission to sell, buy or
barter, any article whatever in Kent county, after sun-set, from
two magistrates of the said county. |
Negroes obtaining
certificates of good
character not prohibited
from selling,
&c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all certificates
given to free negroes,
or free mulattoes, by virtue of this act, shall express the day
of the month and year, of granting the same, and shall be attested
under the hand and seal of the magistrates granting the same. |
Certificates to be
attested. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act contained shall
extend to or prohibit any person from selling, buying or bartering,
any article whatever, to, of, with or from, any slave or servant,
free negro or free mulatto, in any market-house in the said county
now established by law, or which hereafter may be established, in
the time in which the same may be open by law for the purpose of
selling and buying therein. |
Persons not prohibited
from buying
or selling in
any market house,
&c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the certificates
obtained by free
negroes or free mulattoes, as aforesaid, shall be by them presented |
Certificates to be
recorded, or to be
void. |
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