Chap. 7.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 8d and Sth sections of
chapter 96, Code of 1860.

Passed February 28, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly, That the third
and fifth sections of chapter ninety-six of the Code of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

“$3. Fora license to keep a house of entertainment, the
application shall be, when the house is in a town having a
corporation court, to such court, and when it is not in any
such town, to the court of the county wherein it is; but no
license shall be granted by the court of any county or corpo-
ration, unless the justices thereof’ shall have Leen previously
summoned to consider the said application, or unless a ma-
jority of the acting justices of the county or corporation
shall be present. The expense of summoning the justices
shall be borne by the applicant or applicants. If the court
be of opinion that the applicant is sober and of good. cha-
racter, and will probably keep a house orderly, useful, and
such as the law requires, it may grant such license; and if
the house be in a town, the court, when it: grants the same,
may, if the appheant desire it. dispense with the necessity of
his providing for horses. [f any such application be refused,
the refusal shall be entered of reeord, and a Heense shall not
be granted to the applicant betore the next March or April
term, unless by a court composed of the same justices to
whom the first anplication was made, or a majority of the
acting Justices of the county or Corporation.”

“$3. Upon the motion of the commonwealth’s attorney
for the county or corporation, or any other person, after ten
days’ notice to any person licensed, the court which granted
such license, or a court composed of a majority of the justices
of the county or corporation, or a court to which, by order
of a previous court, the justices shall have been summoned
for that purpose, may revoke it. It shall always revoke the

same when it is satistied that the object of obtaining the license
is not to provide lodging or diet for travellers, but to use it
merely as a facility tor “sclling wine or ardent spirits, or a
mixture thereof, to be drank in or at the place of sale. When
the license of any person or persons is revoked, the expense
of summoning the justices shall be puid by the person or
persons whose license is revoked.”

2. This act shall be in foree trom its passave.

Chap. 7.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 8d and Sth sections of
chapter 96, Code of 1860.

Passed February 28, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly, That the third
and fifth sections of chapter ninety-six of the Code of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

“$3. Fora license to keep a house of entertainment, the
application shall be, when the house is in a town having a
corporation court, to such court, and when it is not in any
such town, to the court of the county wherein it is; but no
license shall be granted by the court of any county or corpo-
ration, unless the justices thereof’ shall have Leen previously
summoned to consider the said application, or unless a ma-
jority of the acting justices of the county or corporation
shall be present. The expense of summoning the justices
shall be borne by the applicant or applicants. If the court
be of opinion that the applicant is sober and of good. cha-
racter, and will probably keep a house orderly, useful, and
such as the law requires, it may grant such license; and if
the house be in a town, the court, when it: grants the same,
may, if the appheant desire it. dispense with the necessity of
his providing for horses. [f any such application be refused,
the refusal shall be entered of reeord, and a Heense shall not
be granted to the applicant betore the next March or April
term, unless by a court composed of the same justices to
whom the first anplication was made, or a majority of the
acting Justices of the county or Corporation.”

“$3. Upon the motion of the commonwealth’s attorney
for the county or corporation, or any other person, after ten
days’ notice to any person licensed, the court which granted
such license, or a court composed of a majority of the justices
of the county or corporation, or a court to which, by order
of a previous court, the justices shall have been summoned
for that purpose, may revoke it. It shall always revoke the

same when it is satistied that the object of obtaining the license
is not to provide lodging or diet for travellers, but to use it
merely as a facility tor “sclling wine or ardent spirits, or a
mixture thereof, to be drank in or at the place of sale. When
the license of any person or persons is revoked, the expense
of summoning the justices shall be puid by the person or
persons whose license is revoked.”

2. This act shall be in foree trom its passave.