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AN ACT in relation to selling liquor in the county of Platte.
( 1. License for sale of intoxicating liquors; when may be granted.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follow,:
§ 1. It shall not be lawful for the county court of Platte county to
grant any license authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquors, in less quan-
tities than one quart, unless a petition of a majority of the taxable inhabi-
tants of the city, incorporated town, or municipal township, in which such
liquors are to be sEold, shall have been presented to said court within six
months, praying that such licenses may issue.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 2, 1855.
AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spiritous liquors In the township of Central, in the county
of Jefferson.
( 1. No person to sell spiritous liquors in 6 5. Proceedings under this act to be sum-
Central township. mary.
2. Penalty for violation of this act. 6. Repeal of conflicting laws.
3. Slaves violating this act; how punished. 7. This act to apply to a township in Mad-
4. Duty of civil officers under this act. ison county.
Be it enacted by the General A8sembly of the Stale of Missouri, as follows:
§ 1. Hereafter no person shall, directly or indirectly, sell, barter or
give away any wines, spiritous or malt liquors, or any composition of which
wino or spiritous liquor is a part, in any quantity, or under any pretence,
at any place within the township of Central, in the county of Jeflerson,
and no license hereafter granted to any person in said township, whether
as a merchant, grocer, inn or tavern-keeper, shall authorize the selling or
dealing in wines or spiritous liquors; and no dram-shop license she [shall]
be granted in said township.
§ 2. Any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act shall,
upon conviction thereot before a justice of the peace, for every offense,
be lined in a sum not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars,
and shall stand committed until the fine and costs are fully paid.
3. If any slave shall be guilty of a violation of the preceding pro-
visions of this act, or shall be found with intoxicating liquors in his or her
possession, such slaves may be prosecuted therefor in a summary manner,
before a justice of the peace and, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced
to receive thirty-nine lashes, and the master or owner of such slave shall
pay the costs.
§ 4. It shall be the duty of every civil officer of said county, having a
knowledge of the violation of the first sections of this act, to arrest the
person so offending and take him before some justice of the peace for said
county, or upon complaint made by any person competent to testify against
the accused, the justice of the peace shall issue his warrant to arrest the
person so charged, in the same manner as for a breach of the peace.
§ 5. All violations of the first section of this act, shall be prosecuted
and punished in a summary manner, and the same powers [are] hereby
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