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An Act supplemental to An Act to erect the Town of Natchez into a City, and to incorporate the same 1817-1818 219 (1817)

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&hupp)lemental to lAn Act to erect the Tows
of JYatchez into a City, and to incosyd-
rate the same.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
.Vississippi, in General AssemblU convened,
That it shall and may be lawful for the
president and select men of the city of
Natchez, to pass ordinances for rerula-
ting petty grocers, keepers of ordina-
ries and victualing houses, or where
fruits, meats or liquors shall be sold in
order to be eaten or drank at such hou-
ses within the said city, and for exact-
ing a recognizance from every such
'grocer or other person as aforesaid, iii
such penalty and with such securities
as the said president and select men
shall deem reasonable, conditioned that
he or she shall not permit any strong
or spiritous liquors to be drank in his
or her shop, out-house yard or garden,
nor suffer any kind of gaming within
the same, nor sell any sort of strong or
spiritous liquors to any servant, appren-
tice or slave, without permit from his or
her master or mistress. The prcsident

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