|
ART. 27.] MINERAL WATERS, PORTER, &C. 525
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction as hereinafter provided, shall be fined forty dollars for
every fount, and three dollars for each and every keg, jug or box,
and fifty cents for each and every bottle so by him, her or them
filled, traded or trafficked in or wantonly destroyed, or by him,
her or them caused to be so filled by any agent or employee or
other person, or bought, sold, used, trafficked in or wantonly de-
stroyed, together with the costs of suit.
1882, ch. 491, sec. 4.
204. The using by any other person, partnership or corpora-
tion than the rightful owner thereof, without such written permis-
eion, of any such keg, jug, bottle, fount or box for the sale therein
of porter, soda, mineral water or other beverage, or any other ar-
ticle of merchandise, medical compound or preparation, to be fur-
nished to customers, or the buying, selling, trafficking in any such
keg, jug, bottle, fount or box, by any person other than the owner,
without such written permission, or the fact that any junk dealers-
in kegs, bottles, founts or boxes shall have in his, her or their
possession any such kegs, jugs, bottles, founts or box so marked or
stamped and recorded as aforesaid, without such written permis-
sion, shall be prima facie evidence that such use, buying, selling
or trafficking in or possession is unlawful, within the meaning of
this section; any person or persons found guilty of any such use,
buying, selling, trafficking in or possession of any such keg, box,
jug, fount or bottle, without such written permission, shall be lia-
ble to be arrested and fined, as provided in the preceding section
Ibid, sec. 5.
205. In case the owner of any keg, jug, fount, bottle or box
so marked, stamped and recorded as aforesaid shall, in person or
by agent, make oath before any justice of the peace, in writing,
that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that any manufac-
turer or bottler of porter, soda, mineral water or other beverage,
or any other person, is using in any manner by the four preceding
sections declared unlawful, any of the kegs, jugs, founts, bottles
or boxes of such person or his principal, or that any junk dealer
or dealer in kegs, jugs, founts, bottles or boxes, or any other
dealer, manufacturer or bottler has any such keg, jug, fount, bot-
tle or box secreted in, about and upon his, her or their premises,
|
 |