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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 271
1910, and for each succeeding term of twelve months beginning
on the first day of May in each and every year thereafter. But
any person, co-partnership or corporation may be licensed to
conduct a bottling business by selling fermented liquors only,
and in quantities or packages not less than twelve pint bottles,
by paying the sum of eighty dollars for the twelve months be-
ginning on May 1st, 1908; the sum of one hundred and twenty
dollars for the twelve months beginning on May 1st, 1909,
and the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars for the twelve
months beginning on May 1st, 1910, and for each succeeding
term of twelve months beginning on the first day of May in
each and every year thereafter. Wholesale druggists shall be
entitled to receive a license as such to sell under the same con-
ditions as above stated with respect to distillers, brewers and
wholesale dealers or jobbers, other than wholesale druggists,
and not otherwise, upon paying the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars; but no such wholesale druggist's license to sell
wines, spirituous or fermented liquors shall be given to any
applicant who, or whose concern generally keep on hand, or,
in the case of applications for the first time, expects to gener-
ally keep on hand, at the principal season of sale, an amount
of stock of wines, spirituous or fermented liquors in excess of
five per centum of the total amount of stock of goods, wares
and merchandise generally kept on hand by him, or the said
concern, at the principal season of sale, and every applicant
for such wholesale druggist's license shall, in addition to the
statement on oath now required by law of applicants for trad
er5 s licenses as to their total stock of goods, wares and mer-
chandise, state to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas on
oath to be administered by the Clerk, the amount of said appli-
cant's stock of wines, spirituous or fermented liquors gener-
ally kept on hand by him, or the concern in which he. is en-
gaged, at the principal season of sale, or if said applicant shall
not have previously engaged in such trade or business, the
amount of such stock he expects to keep, as aforesaid. Any
person required by this Section to take out a license who shall
sell or offer for sale any intoxicating liquors without having
first procured such license, and any person who shall violate
any of the provisions of this Section, as to the manner or quan-
tity in which he shall sell or offer for sale such liquors, whether
he shall be required to take out a license or not, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more
than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the Court; and
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