Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act te
amend and re-enact chapter 2 of an act approved March 6, 180, entitled an act
to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on
licenses to transact business and imposing taxes thereon for the support. of the
government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt,
and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt
liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, and
to repeal section 9 of chapter 2 ‘of this act relating to liquor licenses, approved
March 4, 1896.

Approved January 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter two of an act
approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to
provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes,
and on licenses to transact business and imposing taxes thereon for the
support of the government and public free schools and to pay the inter-
est on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses
to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in
cases where a court certificate is required, and to repcal section nine of
chapter two of this act, relating to liquor licenses, as amended by act
approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That no person, corporation, company, firm, partnership, or as-
sociation shall, within the limits of this state, engage in the business of
ractifying, or of manufacturing, or distilling malts, or alcoholic liquors
other than wine, or sell, or offer to sell, by sample or representation or
otherwise, wines, ardent spirits, malt ‘liquors, or any mixture thereof,
alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol, or fruits preserved in ardent
spirits, either by wholesale, retail, or to be drunk at the place where sold,
or in any other way, without first having obtained license therefor; nor
shall the license confer the privilege of sclling in either way except in
the manner hereinafter provided. And all mixtures, preparations and
liquids (except cider) which will produce intoxication, shall be deemed
ardent spirits, within the meaning of this scction. A license to sell by
wholesale shall only include the privilege to sell in quantities of five
gallons or more, except that wholesale dealers in malt liquors may have
the privilege of selling by bottles and jugs, in quantities, if not less than
one dozen. A license to sell by retail shall include only the privilege
of selling in quantities not exceeding five gallons at any time to any
individual, which shall include both the privilege of selling to be deliv-
ered to the purchaser in bottles, jugs, demijohns or other vessels, and
the privilege of being drunk at the place where sold. A license to keep
an ordinary shall contain all rights and privileges of a retail liquor
dealer. A license to keep a 1 malt liquor saloon, under which no malt
liquors nor any mixture thereof slull be sold to be taken away from the
place of delivery, but shall be drunk there. Any person desiring to
carry on the business of wholesale Havor dealer and also that of a retail
liquor merchant, shall obtain a separate license for each, and coniply
With all the provisions of this act in relation to both privileges, A vio-
lation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor,
and shall be punished by a fine of not Jess than twenty dollars, and in
the discretion of the court, by imprisonment net exceeding twelve
months: provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent wholesale
confectioners from selling fruits preserved in ardent spirits.
2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.