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Session Laws, 1880
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WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 615

wine, ale, porter, strong beer, lager beer and all other


malt liquors, and any compound or composition in


which alcohol forms the chief or principal ingredient,


when kept or deposited with intent to sell the same


for drinking or tippling purposes, as well as other


distilled spirits, shall be considered as intoxicating


within the meaning of this act ; but that this enum-


eration shall not prevent any other pure or mixed


liquors from being considered intoxicating.


SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person,


corporation, company or association, by himself, her-


self or itself, or by his, her or its clerk, servant or


agent, directly or indirectly, shall sell intoxicating


liquors in violation of the provisions of this act, he,


she or it, shall forfeit and pay on the first conviction


a fine of not less than thirty nor more than two


hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or in-

Pine for vio-

stead of such fine, if a person shall be imprisoned in

lation

the county jail for thirty days in the discretion of


the court; and on the second and every subsequent


conviction, the minimum and maximum of said fine


for the next preceding offence shall be double, with


the costs of prosecution in each case added, and the


imprisonment for the second offence, if a person, shall


be not less than thirty nor more than sixty days ;


and the minimum and maximum of imprisonment


for every subsequent conviction shall be alike dou-


ble of that next preceding.


SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no person, cor-


poration, company or association, shall deposit or


have in his, her or its possession, any intoxicating


liquors with intent to sell the same in violation of


law, or with intent that the same shall be sold by

Fines and

any person, corporation, company or association, or

punishments

to aid and assist any person, corporation, company


or association in such sale ; and any person, corpor-


ation, company or association violating the provisions


of this section shall be subject to the like fines and


punishments as are prescribed for violations of the


second section of this act.


SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all prosecutions

Prosecutions

for violations of the provisions of this act may be

? how made

either upon presentment and indictment, or by trial




 

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