Chap. 307.—An ACT prohibiting the manufacture and sale of certain intoxicating
liquors in certain counties of the Commonwealth.

Approved March 25, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no license
shall be granted to any person or persons, club or corporation, to manu-
facture, rectify, or distill spirituous or malt liquors, or alcoholic liquors,
other than wine; nor to sell nor offer for sale wine, ardent spirits, malt
liquors, or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alco-
hol, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits, either by wholesale or retail,
or to be drunk at the place where sold, or in any other way, within the
counties of Tazewell, Giles, Buchanan, and Dickenson. Any person who
shall manufacture, rectify, or distill, or sell or offer for sale any of the in-
toxicating liquors herein mentioned, within any of the counties hereir
named, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than onc
thousand dollars; and if the fine and costs be not paid, the accused shall be
committed to jail until the sum be paid or until he shall be discharged
by due process of law. Any person convicted under this act shall further
be required to give bond, with security, for his good behavior for twelve
months; and on failure to give such bond, he shall be committed to jail
until he give said bond or is discharged by due process of law.

2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the provisions of
the charter of the town of Pocahontas, in ‘Tazewell county, in relation te
the sale of liquor therein.

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

4. This act shall be in force from May first, mineteen hundred and two.

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