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and be imprisoned in the House of Correction not less than
three months nor more than six months, in the discretion of
the court, for each and every offence; and the person in pos-
session of the premises, house or place at the time the violation
occurred, shall be deemed prima facie guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the same fines
and penalties as the actual violator.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any person or persons, or
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members of any body corporate, that shall have obtained a
license to sell liquors under the provisions of this act, and shall
violate any of the promises or provisions of section 4 of this
act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon con-
viction thereof, either before a justice of the peace of the
county aforesaid or in the Circuit Court therefor, upon pre-
sentment and indictment, or upon appeal from the decision
and sentence of such justice, shall be liable to a fine of not less
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than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs,
or imprisonment in the county jail of said county for not more
than sixty days, or with fine and imprisonment, at the discre-
tion of the court or justice trying the case, for each and every
offence, and shall in addition thereto have his, their or its
license suppressed by sentence of said court or justice; and
after such conviction and suppression of license, the offender
or offenders shall not again sell or offer to sell in said town any
such liquors aforesaid, under the penalties provided in the last
preceding section, for the period of five years from the date of
conviction, unless the said court or justice shall in passing
sentence name a shorter period of time, which they are hereby
authorized to do, but which shall in no case be less than one
year, and in which event the offender or offenders shall not
sell in said town as last aforesaid, and under the penalties last
aforesaid, for the period of time so fixed by said court or
justice; and in all cases of conviction the offender or offenders
shall, by the sentence of the court or justice, stand committed
until the tine and costs imposed are paid, or until and unless,
in case of any conviction and appeal taken therefrom, a good
and sufficient recognizance bond is furnished by the party con-
victed to prosecute his appeal with effect, in the names in such
case already made and provided by law; and in all cases where
such fines and costs shall have been imposed and are not paid
within thirty days, the bond of the party or parties convicted,
filed with the clerk as preliminary to the obtaining a license to
sell liquors, shall be liable for the payment of the same, the
said fines and costs to be collected by the State's attorney of
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