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CHAP. 416.
Unlawful to
sell or give
away liquors
etc,
to minors,
etc.
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175 G. No person shall knowingly sell or barter any spirit-
uous liquors or lager beer to any person who is a minor or
under twenty-one years of age, nor shall any person know-
ingly sell or barter to any person such spirituous liquors or
lager beer to be drunk by any person who is a minor or under
twenty-one years of age ; and no person shall knowingly give
to any person who is a minor or under twenty-one years of
age, any such spirituos liquors or lager beer, or knowingly
allow upon the premises occupied by him any person who is
a minor or under twenty-one years of age to drink any such
spirituous liquors or lager beer sold or bartered by him ; nor
shall any licensee under this Act allow any peraon who is a
minor or under twenty-one years of age to frequent, loaf or
loiter in, on or about his saloon or premises where spirituous
liquors or lager beer is sold ; provided, however, that a
licensee under this Act may furnish to a minor for the use of
a parent such liquors or lager beer upon the written order of
such parent, when satisfied that such order is genuine, and
each such sale must be made upon a separate order ; that no
licensee under this Act shall knowingly sell, furnish or give
any intoxicating, spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer
to an habitual drunkard, or to any person whose parents,
guardian', husband, wife, child, brother or sister shall have
given notice to such licensee that such person is of intemper-
ate habits, and requesting such licensee not to sell to him or
her. The word "knowingly," as used in this Act as to minors
shall be construed to mean such knowledge as a reasonable
man would have under ordinary circumstances from the
appearance of the minor or individual; and as to habitual
drunkards the word "knowingly" shall be construed to mean
such knowledge as a reasonable man would have under ordi-
nary circumstances from the habits, appearance and general
reputation for drinking of the habitual.
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Penalty
for violation
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175 L. Any person having a license under the provisions of
this Act, who shall hereafter be convicted of violating any of
the provisions of this Act, or of the conditions of his license,
shall be subject to a tine of not more than two hundred
dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not lees than
thirty days nor more than six months, or both tine and impris-
onment, in the discretion of the Court, for the first offense,
and in default of payment of the tine and costs so imposed
the bund herein provided for shall be put to suit for the
recovery thereof; and upon a second conviction for the viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this Act, or of the conditions
of his license, he shall be pubject to a tine of not less than
fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or
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