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An Act to regulate Groceries and Dram Shops. 1840 81 (1840)

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4 2. It is further made the duty of said commissioner, from time to time, un-
der the direction of the Governor, to cause all necessary repairs to be made to
the Governor's house, and enclosures thereunto belonging, including the lot on
which the old State House stood; and the sum of three hundred dollars is here-
by appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to carry out the provision of this section.
This act to take effect from and after its passage.
APPROVED Jan. 11, 1841.
GOVERNOR'S HOUSE.
AN ACT supplementary to An act to repair and furnish the Governor's house,
approved January Ilth, 1841.
Five hundred dollars, additional, appropriated to furnish the Governor's house.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Slate of Missouri, as follows:
§ 1. The additional sum of five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated for the purpose of furnishing the Governor's house, and that the
Auditor of public accounts is hereby authorised to draw a warrant (in favor of
the commissioner of the permanent seat of government, to be expended under
the direction of the Governor,) on the State treasurer for the same, to be appro-
priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
This act to be in force from and alter its passage.
ArRovam Jan. 26, 1841.
GROCERIES AND DRAM SHOPS.
AN ACT to regulate Groceries and Dram Shops.

SECTION
Who may take out a license to keep a grocery:
who to keep a dram shop. . -        -    1
Tax on licenses to keep groceries, dram shops,
inns and taverns to bo determined by the
county court. .Q....                 .
Application for a license to keep a grocery or
drain shop, to be made, in writing, to the
county court: what the saine shall f!ste. . 3
License thereupon to isnue for six months.  ib.
Applicants for license to keep a grocery or dram
1hop, shall deliver a statement, on oath, of
the amount of their stock, on which an ad va.
lorem tax shall be levied. - .       4
A grocery and dran shop may he kept by same
person, on his obtaining a separate license
for each.. -                - ... . . ib.
Clerk shall deliver to collector a statement of
licenses granted by the court, and charge him
therewith....-... -              -.    5
No license shall be issued until the collector's
receipt for the taxes on same is produced. - ib.
The collector to collect, immediately, the
amount specified in thr elerk's statement . 6
11

StoTiON
On what terms the clerk, in vacation of court,
may grant licenses.. ........- 7
On a renewal of the license thus granted by the
clerk, no additional ad valorcun tax shall be
impnsed. -        -.-.-...      .  ..
Greers ny sell any kind of goods, &c.. dry
goods excepted....     .-    ..    . -  9
Grocers or draii shop keepers shall not, by vir.
tue of their license, keep at more than one
place. -.-.......                 -. ..10
Said licenses not assignable. .  .  .   . ib.
The clerk to report to the county court the
number of licenses granted by him in vaca
tion....   .   .   .......            11
Physicians, &-., may usc rpirituous liquors,
Irofessionally,(withioutbtatuininga license.) 12
No person shall do business, as a grocer, with.
out a license: nor sell spirituous liquors in
quantities less than a quart, nor permit the
same to be drunk about his premises. -  . is
No grocery to be kept open on Sunday, nor li.
quars to be sold after 9 o'rlock of that

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