Chap. 300.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and thirteenth
sections of an act entitled an act imposing a tax, and prescribing the
mode of collecting the same, on the privilege of selling wine, ardent
spirits or malt liquors, within the limits of the commonwealth, for
the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public
debt, approved March 30, 1877.

Approved April 2, 1877.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first and thirteenth sections of an act entitled an act im-
posing a tax, and preseribing the mode of collecting the same,
on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits or malt liquors
within the limits of the commonwealth, for the support of
the government and to pay the interest on the public debt,
approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Ba it enacted by the general assembly, That no person
shall, witbin the limits of this commonwealth, sell wine, ar-
dent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, either by
wholesale, retail, or to be drunk at the place where sold, or
in any other way, without having first obtained license there-
for; nor shall such hicense extend to him the privilege of sell-
ing in either way, except in the manner hereinatter pro-
vided. A license to%sell by wholesale, shall include only the
privilege to sell in quantities of five gallons or more. A
‘license to sell by wholesale and retail, shall include only the
privilege to sell in quantities of one gallon or more. A license
to sell by retail, shall include only the privilege of selling in
quantities not exceeding five gallons at any time to any one
individual, which shall not be drunk within the house or cur-
tilage where sold, but shall be delivered to the purchaser in
bottles, jugs, demijohns, or other vessels, to be removed there-
from. A license to sell to be drunk at the place where sold,
shall be known as a bar-room license, under which no wine,
ardent spirits, malt hquors, nor any mixture thereof, shall
be sold to be taken away from the place of delivery, but shall
be drunk there. Any person desiring to carry on the busi-
ness of a retail liquor merchant, and also that of a bar-room
keeper, shall obtain a separate license for each, and comply
with all the provisions of this act in relation to both privi-
leges. Any person violating the provisions of this section,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined
not less than twenty dollars nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, and be imprisoned not less than one month nor more
than twelve months.

§ 13. Any druggist who desires to sell wine, ardent spirits,
or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, shall be required,
before he does so, to take out a retail liquor dealer's license,
and he shall in all respects be deemed a retail liquor dealer,
and be subject to the requirements of this law: provided the
provisions of this act shall not apply to liquor used by any
druggist in the preparation of medicine.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.