The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, l881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 1 October 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1881.

The Licensing Act of last session is now in force, and it would be well for licensed victuallers to make themselves acquainted with its provisions, for many clauses have been introduced that will call for an alteration in the mode of conducting their business. We give a few of the clauses. Clause 133 says:—No licensed person shall recover any debt or demand on account of any liquor supplied by him to any person for consumption on the premises, but such person may sue for and recover the value of any liquor supplied with meals to any person boiut fide lodg ing in the house. 134. If any licensed person shall receive in payment, or as a pledge for any liquor supplied in or from his licensed premises, anything except current money, or cheques on banks, or order for payment of money, he shall for each offence pay a penalty not exceeding £10. The person to whom belongs anything given as a pledge as aforesaid, shall have the same remedy for recovering such pledge as if it had never been pledged. 14' d. If any licensed person permits drunkenness, or any violent, quarrelsome, or riotous conduct to take place iv his premises, or sells aay liquor to any person already in a state of drunkenness, or by aDy means encourages or incites any per son to drink, he shall be liable to a penalty of £20, and for the second and subsequent offence, £50. 148. If any licensed person knowingly harbors, or suffers to remain on his premises, any constable during any part of the time appointed for such constable being on duty, lie shall be liable to a penalty of £10, 166. Any licensed person who allows to be supplied in his licensed premises, by purchase or otherwise, to be consumed on the premises—Any description whatever of spirits, or of wine ale beer, or porter, to any person apparently under the age of sixteen yeurs, of either sex, —shall, as well as the person who actually gives or supplies the spirits or liquor, be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence. Upon a conviction for a first offence against this section, the convioted person, if licensed, shall be liable to have his license suspended for six mouths, and, in case of a second or any subsequent offence, he shall be liable to forfeit his license, aud the premises iv respect of which such license is granted shall Va, liable to be declared disqualified for\i period of not less than two years exceeding five years. 167. When it shall ba made to appear in open Court that any person, by excessive drinking of liquor, misspends, wastes, or lessens his or her estate, or greatly injures his or her health, or endangers or the peace and happiness oL his or her family, the Justices presiding in such Court shall, by writing under the hands of any two such Justices, forbid any licensed person to sell to him or her any liquor for the space of one year, and such Justices, or any other two Justice, may, at the same or any other time, in like manner, forbid the selling of auy such liquor to the said druukard by any such licensed persons of any other city, town, or district to which the drunkard shall or may be likely to resort for the same.