Chap. 60.—An ACT in relation to the Sale, Use, and Disposition of Butts,
Hogsheads, Barrels, Casks, and Kegs, used by the manufacturers of malt

liquors.
Approved April 16, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That any person
or persons engaged in the manufacture of malt liquors, for sale
in butts, hopehenda, barrels, half-barrels, casks, half-casks, quar-
ter-casks, or kegs, with his, her, or their name or names or
other private marks, respectively, branded or stamped thereon,
may file in the office of the clerk of the county or city court in
which such articles shall be manufactured, a description of the
names used, and other private mark or marks to be branded or
stamped thereon, and shall cause the same to be published
once a week for six weeks successively in a newspaper pub-
lished in such county or city, and in the city of Richmond,
where such publications shall be. made for the same time in
two daily newspapers published in said city.

2. That any person, other than the lawful owner or owners
referred to in the preceding section, who shail fill with malt,
liquor, or use, traffic in, dispose of, convert, mutilate or de-
stroy, or wilfully or unreasonably refuse to deliver to such
owner or owners, upon demand being made, any such vessel
hereinbefore mentioned, so branded or stamped, or shall re-
move, deface, or obliterate said brands or stamps, or stamp
other brands or stamps on the same without the permission of
the lawful owner or owners thereof, shall, upon conviction, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished, for the first
offence, by a fine of ten dollars for every such vessel so filled,
trafficked in, disposed of, detained, mutilated or destroyed,
and by a fine of twenty dollars and imprisonment in the county
or city jail for not less than one nor more than three months,
for each and every subsequent offence, to be recovered in the
same manner as fines are now recoverable, one-half for the use
of the poor of the city or county where the offence shall have
been committed, and one-half for the use of the officer who
shall arrest such offender. :

3. Any such owner or owners, or the agent of such owner
or owners, who shall make oath or aflirmation before any jus-
tice of the peace or judge having jurisdiction in criminal mat-
ters, that he has reason to believe, (setting forth the fact upon
which such belief is founded,) and does believe, that any of the
above-named articles, belonging to him or them, so branded
or stamped as aforesaid, or from which the brands or stamps
have been cut off, removed, defaced, or obliterated, or which
have been mutilated or wilfully detained, after demand has
been made, by any person authorized to make such demand,
or that any junk or cask dealer, or any other person or persons
whomsoever, shall have any of the articles above described,
unlawfully, in his, her, or their possession, or secreted on his,
her, or their premises, or in any place under his, her, or their
control, the said justice of the peace or judge shall thereupon,
on proof of such demand having been made, issue a search
warrant, directed to any constable or other proper oflicer, to
search the premises or place where any such articles are alleged
to be, particularly describing such premises or place; and if,
upon search, any such articles shall be found, to take posses-
sion of the same and to bring the body of the person, in whose
possession or control any such article may be found, before
such justice of the peace or judge, to be tried as for a misde-
meanor, under the regulations now provided by law for the
trial of misdemeanor, and to be punished in the manner set
forth in the second section of this act.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.