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liquor seized or the value of the same, or for damages
alleged to arise by reason of the seizing and detention
thereof.

117. When any prosecution is commenced before the Jus-
tice of the Peace or court for a violation of this sub-title,
and the liquor seized under this section is to be used as
evidence in such trial, the hearing must take place in not
more than thirty days if such court is then in session, and
if it be not in session, within thirty days from the date
when it is next in session. If at the time appointed for
trial the returns have not been properly made, or for other
sufficient cause, the trial may be postponed to a further
date not more than fifteen days beyond said thirty days.

118. The word "Liquor", when used in this sub-title,
unless the same be inconsistent with the context, shall be
construed to include the vessels containing the same; the
phrase "Means used for the sale of the same", shall in-
clude all furniture, implements, equipment, instrumentali-
ties, or paraphernalia of a barroom or drinking saloon or
any part of same, and any United States Internal Revenue
tax receipts effective for the period of time covering the
alleged offense, and to include also any conveyance or
vehicle; the word "place" shall be construed to include any
edifice, apartment, room, tent, boat, wagon, conveyance,
motor vehicle, aeroplane, or any open air location.

119. Any residence or any part thereof which is a place
of public resort, or is used as a store or shop, or is util-
ized as a place for keeping, depositing, storing, hiding,
secreting, handling, exchanging, distributing, furnishing or
delivering any intoxicating liquor in any quantity what-
ever intended for sale or disposition otherwise contrary to
this sub-title or contrary to law, shall not be accepted or
held as a private residence for the purposes of this sub-title.

120. The giving away, furnishing, delivering, handling,
distributing or exchanging of any intoxicating liquor by
any storekeeper, or at any place of business, or the taking
or soliciting of orders, or the making of agreements by any
person at or within the said County of Worcester for the
sale or delivery or future giving away of any intoxicating
liquors, or any other shift or device to evade any provision
of this sub-title, shall be held to be an unlawful selling.

121. All prosecutions for violations of this sub-title
which are hereby declared to be misdemeanors, may be
'either upon presentment or indictment or by trial before