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ART. 22.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 1047
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 spirit-
uous or fermented liquors or lager beer, or knowingly allow upon
the premises occupied by him or them or any person who is a
minor or under twenty-one years of age to drink any spirit-
uous or fermented liquors or lager beer sold or bartered by
him or them; or shall any licensee under this Act allow any
person who is a minor or under twenty-one years of age to
frequent, loaf or loiter on or about his saloon or premises
where spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer are sold.
No licensee under this Act shall knowingly sell, furnish or
give any intoxicating, spirituous or fermented liquors or
lager beer to any habitual drunkard or to any person whose
parent or parents, guardian, husband, wife, son, daughter,
brother or sister, or committee shall have 'given notice that
such person is of intemperate habits, and requesting such
licensee not to sell to him or her, and no person not a licensee
shall furnish or give to any person who is a minor or under
twenty-one years of age any spirituous or fermented liquors
or lager beer. The word "knowingly" as used in this Act as
to minors shall be construed to mean actual knowledge, or
such knowledge as a reasonable man would have under ordi-
nary circumstances from the appearance of the minor or
individual, and as to "habitual drunkards," the word "know-
ingly" shall be construed to mean such knowledge as a reas-
onable man would have under ordinary circumstances from
the habits, appearance and general reputation of the habitual
drunkard.
SEC. 325A. And be it enacted, That no licensee under this
Act shall sell or furnish to any person intoxicating, spirituous
or fermented liquors or lager beer on any day on which an elec-
tion is now or may hereafter be required to be held, except that
said licensees in cases of municipal elections shall only be
required to close their places of business in towns where said
elections are held, or on the Lord's day, commonly called Sun-
day, nor on Christmas day, except that proprietors of hotels
may furnish such spirituous, fermented and intoxicating liq-
uors and lager beer to bona fide guests of their hotels, on
Christmas day, nor except in a hotel shall conduct his business
in any place to which an entrance shall be allowed other than
from a public traveled street or highway, and the word alley
in this Act shall not be construed to be a public traveled street
or highway.
SEC. 325B. And be it enacted, That druggists and apothe-
caries shall not be required to obtain license under the pro-
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