ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the intoxication of another person, shall be liable for and com-

pelled to pay a reasonable compensation to any person who may

take charge of and provide for such intoxicated person, and one

Liability

dollar per day in addition thereto in consequence of such intoxi-

tor wrong-
ful selling.

cation, which sum may be recovered in a civil action before any

court or justice of the peace having jurisdiction thereof, and said

suit may he brought upon the bond of any person obtaining license

under the provisions of this act, and shall be liable for the sum

recovered in said suit in case the sale is made by a person who has

obtained license under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That every husband, wife, child,

parent, guardian or other person injured in person or property, or
means of support, by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of

the intoxication, habitual or otherwise of any person, shall after

the giving and during the existence of the notice provided for in

the next section, have a right of action in his or her own name,

severally or jointly, against any person or persons or body cor-

porate, who by selling or giving intoxicating liquors have caused

the intoxication in whole or in part of such person, and the owner

Bight of

of any building or premises, and the person renting or leasing the

action.

same," having knowledge that intoxicating liquors are to be sold

therein, or who having leased the same for other purposes, know-

ingly permits intoxicating liquors to be sold therein, that have

caused the intoxication in whole or in part of such person, shall

be liable severally or jointly, with the person or persons or body

corporate selling or giving intoxicating liquors as aforesaid, for

all damages sustained as well as exemplary damages.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That any husband, wife, child,

parent, guardian or other person liable to be so injured by any

sale of intoxicating liquors to any person, and desiring to prevent

the sale of intoxicating liquors to such person, shall give notice

either verbally before a witness, or in writing to the person or

persons so selling or giving intoxicating liquors, or to owner or

lessor of the premises wherein such intoxicating liquors are given

To give

or sold, or file with the nearest justice of the peace in the town or

notice.

district wherein such intoxicating liquors may be sold, notice to

all liquor dealers not to sell or give to such person any intoxicating

liquors from and after the giving or filing such notice, and the

said justice of the peace shall immediately inform the person or

persons to whom the notice or notices are given, such notice filed

with said justice of the peace shall be entered by him in a book

to be kept for such purpose, which shall be open for the inspec-

tion of all persons interested; and any notice entered in such book

shall by the justice of the peace having charge of the same be

erased and so obliterated as not to be legible upon the demand of

the person by whom such notice was filed, and thereafter such

notice shall cease and end, and said justice of the peace shall be