710 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 7

porate, for a violation of any of the preceding sections
hereof, it shall be lawful for the State to prove that such
person or persons, house, company, association or body
corporate, on trial, has or have paid (if such be the
case) a special tax to the government of the United
States, under the Internal Revenue laws thereof, upon
or for his, her, their or its business, as a brewer or
brewers, or retail dealer or dealers in liquors, or whole-
sale dealer in liquors, or retail dealer or dealers in
malt liquors, or wholesale dealer or dealers in malt
liquors (as the case may be), in Montgomery county,
for a period of time within which such violation has
occured, and to prove that he, she, it or they, has or
have registered his, her, their or its business for said
period as such dealer or dealers with the Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district of which Montgom-
ery county shall form a part, and that he, she, it or they,
made application to said collector to be so registered;
and it shall be lawful for the state, in such case, to
offer in evidence said Internal Revenue laws relating
to said special taxes, and the payment of said special
tax or taxes upon, and the registering of his, her, their
or its said business, may be proved by a certificate of
said collector, or any of his deputies, or by the sworn
testimony of him, or any of them, or by the sworn testi-
mony of any person who has examined the books of said
collector; and a copy of the application of any person
or persons, house, company, association or body cor-
porate, for registry, under said revenue laws, made
and attested by said collector, or any of his deputies,
or sworn to by any person who has examined the books,
of said collector, shall be prima facie proof of such
application, and the payment of said tax and the
application for such registry shall be prima facie evi-
dence that the party so paying and appling is engaged
in the sale of intoxicating drinks within the limits of
Montgomery county.

"Sec. 134 C. Whenever any person shall charge on
oath or affirmation before any Justice of the Peace, or
any Grand Jury shall present, that any person or per-
sons, house, company, association or body corporate,
has or have violated the provisions of section one
hundred and thirty-four of this Act, and shall request