WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 615
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wine, ale, porter, strong beer, lager beer and all other
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malt liquors, and any compound or composition in
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which alcohol forms the chief or principal ingredient,
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when kept or deposited with intent to sell the same
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for drinking or tippling purposes, as well as other
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distilled spirits, shall be considered as intoxicating
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within the meaning of this act ; but that this enum-
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eration shall not prevent any other pure or mixed
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liquors from being considered intoxicating.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person,
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corporation, company or association, by himself, her-
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self or itself, or by his, her or its clerk, servant or
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agent, directly or indirectly, shall sell intoxicating
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liquors in violation of the provisions of this act, he,
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she or it, shall forfeit and pay on the first conviction
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a fine of not less than thirty nor more than two
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hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or in-
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Pine for vio-
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stead of such fine, if a person shall be imprisoned in
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lation
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the county jail for thirty days in the discretion of
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the court; and on the second and every subsequent
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conviction, the minimum and maximum of said fine
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for the next preceding offence shall be double, with
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the costs of prosecution in each case added, and the
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imprisonment for the second offence, if a person, shall
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be not less than thirty nor more than sixty days ;
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and the minimum and maximum of imprisonment
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for every subsequent conviction shall be alike dou-
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ble of that next preceding.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no person, cor-
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poration, company or association, shall deposit or
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have in his, her or its possession, any intoxicating
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liquors with intent to sell the same in violation of
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law, or with intent that the same shall be sold by
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Fines and
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any person, corporation, company or association, or
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punishments
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to aid and assist any person, corporation, company
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or association in such sale ; and any person, corpor-
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ation, company or association violating the provisions
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of this section shall be subject to the like fines and
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punishments as are prescribed for violations of the
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second section of this act.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all prosecutions
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Prosecutions
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for violations of the provisions of this act may be
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? how made
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either upon presentment and indictment, or by trial
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