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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0421 and id is 1 raw text is: 1851-'52. 336
rower to en- SEC. 3. Bec it ftrther enacted, That if any person or
force payment. persons having been convicted as aforesaid shall fail to pay
such fine as may be assessed against him, he or they may
be imprisoned by order of the mayor or aldermen, before
whom lie or they may be tried, in the county jail of Fayette
county for any lengih of time not exceeding twenty-four
hours for any one offence; and it is hereby made the duty of
the jailor of said county to receive into his custody all per-
sons who tay be ordered to be imprisoned upon being paid
or tendered the usual fees prescribed by law in other cases.
Powers extend. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the powers
cd. conferred by the previous sections of this act upon said
mayor and aldermen to regulate and prescribe the terms
upon which billiard tables and ten pin alloys may be kept,
by granting license and imposing fines and petalties, be and
they are hereby extended to the business of retailing spir-
itnous liqIors Provided, Such tax shall not exceed one
hundred dollars.
Ari-ioven, February 5, 1852.
[No. 208.] AN ACT
To extend the power and authority of the intendant and
council of the town of Livingston.
Sic. 1. lBe it cuacted by th Senalte and House of Represen-
(tin 's of the Sitte of' Alabama in General ..1ssenhly conveaed,
Po wersr c-'I'hat the intendant and council of the town of Livingston.
,,orrte anuori- in the county of Sumter, shall have full powers to ordain all
tY i ure'Ised. such ordinances and resolutions and make oil such regula-
tions as may by them be doomed necessary for tIe control
of the retailing of spirituous liquors within said town; to
grant license for retailing of spirittious liquors in said town
upon such stni to be paid therefor by each retailer, not to
exceed two thousand dollars per annum, as tie said inten-
dant and council may order; to restrain and prohibit thern
when deemed a nuisance ; to provide regilations for the
punishment of any negro or white person who shall buy any
species of ardent spirits and fIrnish to a slave; and in gen-
oral to -idopt such a system of police and municipal regula-
tion in regard to the tra(fe in ardent spirits as shall be
doeired by them most conducive to public order and mo-
rality and policy in reference to the black or colored popula-
tion not forbidden by the constitution and law of this state.
APPROVED, February 9, 1852.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0421&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)