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drunkards and paupers

§ 802. It is not lawful to sell intoxicating liquors Habitual to any person guilty of habitual drunkenness, nor to any person to whom the seller has been requested by parent, guardian, husband or wife not to sell intoxicating liquors; and every party so selling intoxicating liquors shall, on proof thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be deprived of his license and shall not be allowed a renewal of it; and, in addition, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. If any innkeeper, or any other person, knowingly (outside of any poor-house), shall sell or give to any pauper or inmate of any poor-house or alms-house strong or spirituous liquors or wines, such person shall be fined twenty-five dollars and is guilty of a misde

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on Sunday.

803. No inn-keeper or person licensed to sell No traffic liquors shall sell or give away any intoxicating liquors or wines on Sunday, or upon any day on which a general or special election or town meeting is held, and within one-quarter of a mile from the place where it is held, in any of the cities, villages or towns of this state, to any person whatever. In case the election or town meeting is not general throughout the state, the provisions of this section in such case, shall only apply to the city, county, village or towns in which such election or town meeting is held. Whoever offends

Penalties,

how recovered.

Bonds to be filed.

Forfeited bonds.

When judg.

ments are obtained.

How licenses may be revoked.

against the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 804. The penalties imposed by this chapter, except where otherwise provided, shall be recovered in the name of the board of commissioners of excise, and paid over to the treasurer of the county for the support of the poor of the county.

805. Every bond, taken pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall, within ten days after its execution, be filed in the office of the clerk of the town, city or village in which the license is granted.

§ 806. Whenever a breach of the condition of such bond happens, the commissioners of excise, the supervisor of the town, or mayor of the city or trustees of the village in which the person incurs the penalty resides, shall prosecute the same.

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§ 807. Whenever any conviction or judgment is obtained against any person licensed, for any violation of the provisions of this chapter, either in an action for a penalty or upon a bond, the justice or court before whom the same is had shall transmit to the next court of sessions of the county a statement of such conviction or judgment, and of the offense for which it was obtained.

§ 808. The court of sessions shall give notice to such persons to appear on a day specified, to show

cause why his license should not be revoked. At the day appointed, and on such other days as the court shall appoint, it shall proceed to inquire into the circumstances, and shall revoke the licenses of persons violating the provisions of this chapter.

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person whose license is revoked shall be incapable of receiving any license for the space of three years from the time of such revocation.

for unlaw. ful sale.

§ 809. Any person who sells any strong or Damages spirituous liquors or wines to any of the individuals to whom it is declared by this chapter to be unlawful to make such sale, shall be liable for all damages which may be sustained in consequence of such sale, and may be sued in any of the courts of this state by any individual sustaining such injuries, or by the overseers of poor of the town where the injured party may reside, and the sum recovered shall be for the benefit of the party injured.

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ated liquors

§ 810. Any person who adulterates intoxicating Adulterliquors or wines with poisonous or deleterious drugs or mixtures, or knowingly imports or sells intoxicating liquors or wines so adulterated, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

person may

§ 811. In case any person, whose duty it is to when any prosecute, neglects to prosecute for any penalty prosecute." provided by this chapter, for the period of ten

Employees of incorpo rated com. panies.

Judgments rendered.

days after complaint to them, accompanied with reasonable proof of the violation, any other person may prosecute therefor in the name of the board of commissioners of excise.

§ 812. All persons in this state engaged in conveying passengers, and all railroad, steamboat and ferry companies, and all corporations conveying, for hire, persons or property, shall refuse employment to all persons who, on good and sufficient proof, are shown to indulge in the intemperate use of intoxicating drinks; and any such person or company who retains in employ any person who, on competent proof, is shown to be intoxicated at any period whilst in active service of the company or person, either as engineer, conductor, fireman, switch-tender, commander, pilot, mate or foreman, or in any way connected with the moving power or management, or whose duty, if neglected, would diminish the safety and security of life, limb or property entrusted thereto, is liable to pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars to the county treasurer, in the county where the offense is committed, and proved before any court of competent jurisdiction.

§ 813. A person against whom a judgment is rendered on any bond given or for any penalty imposed under this chapter shall not be entitled, under any execution issued on such judgment, to the liberties of the jail.

inn and
inn-keeper.

§ 814. The words "inn" and "inn-keeper," in Meaning of this chapter, include any tavern or hotel and the keeper of any tavern or hotel.

CHAPTER XII.

INNS.

SECTION 815. Inn-keeper's accommodations.

816. Sign.

817. Giving credit for intoxicating drinks.
818. Penalties, how recovered.

819. Inn-keeper's liability.

820. Meaning of inn and inn-keeper.

accommodations.

§ 815. Every inn-keeper shall keep at least three Innkeeper's spare beds for his guests, with good and sufficient bedding, and every inn-keeper in any town or village shall also keep, for four horses more than his own stock, good and sufficient stabling and grain, and in the winter provender of hay, and in the summer hay or pasturage, for the same, under penalty of ten dollars for every neglect to have either of such articles, to be recovered by the poor, for the use of the poor.

overseers of the

Laws of 1857, vol. 2, ch. 628, p. 409, § 8.

§ 816. Every inn-keeper licensed under the provi- Sign. sions of chapter XI of this title, entitled "Licenses," shall maintain, so long as he keeps an inn, a proper sign, on or adjacent to the front of his house, with his name, and indicating that he keeps an inn, tavern or hotel, under penalty of ten dollars for

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