PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSYLVANIA has a license law of twelve sections, approved April 12, 1875.

The first section repeals the local-option law, which allowed the voters of the commonwealth to vote every three years on the question of granting licenses. The County Court of Quarter Sessions is empowered to grant licenses, hear objections, etc. The license fee is graduated according to the quantity of liquors sold yearly. Penalties are provided for violations of the law. Injured parties may collect damages of liquor-sellers. The sale of liquors is prohibited on Sundays, to minors, and to a person visibly affected by intoxicating drinks."

PROHIBITION ON ELECTION-DAY.

THE following was enacted in 1872:

Be it enacted, etc., That, from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons keeping a publichouse or drinking-place, either licensed or unlicensed, to sell spirituous or malt liquors, wine, or any other intoxicating beverages, on any part of any day set apart, or to be set apart, for any general or special election, by the citizens in any election district or division within this commonwealth, where an election is in progress, during the hours when by law in said district the election polls are required to be kept open.

KENTUCKY.

THE following is the bill to "regulate the sale of spirituous or vinous liquors" in the State:

"SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court in each county of this commonwealth, upon a written petition signed by at least twenty of the legal voters in any civil district, town, or city in his county, to make an order on his order-book, at the next regular term of his court after he receives said petition, directing the sheriff, or other officer whose duty it may be to hold the election, to open a poll in said district, town, or city at the next regular State, town, city, or county election held therein, for the purpose of taking the sense of the legal voters in the said district, town, or city upon the proposition whether or not spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors shall be sold therein.

"SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county court clerk to give to the sheriff, or other officer whose duty it shall be to hold the election mentioned in Section 1 of this act, a certified copy of the order of the judge of the county court, as it appears on his orderbook, within ten days after said order is made.

"SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, or other officer whose duty it may be to hold the election mentioned in Section 1 of this act, to have the order of the judge of the county court published in some weekly or daily paper published in the county, for at least two weeks before the election; and also to advertise the same by printed or written handbills posted at five conspicuous places in said district, town, or city for the same length of time; and if there is no daily or weekly newspaper published in the county, the printed or written handbills posted as before provided for shall be sufficient notice. The sheriff, or other officer whose duty it shall be to hold the election mentioned in Section 1, shall have the advertisement and notices herein provided for posted, as above provided for, within ten days after he receives the order of the county judge, and twenty days before the election.

"SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, or other officer whose duty it may be to hold the election mentioned in Section 1 of this act, to open a poll, and the election officers shall propound to each voter who may vote the question: 'Are you in favor of the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in this district, town, or city?' and his vote shall be entered for or against it, as he directs. The poll shall be returned as the other polls in said election, shall be examined and compared by the same officers.

“SEC. 5. If it shall be found that a majority of the legal votes cast at the election before provided for were given against the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the district, town, or city, it shall be the duty of the Examining Board to certify that fact, which certificate shall be delivered to the clerk of the county court, and by him safely kept until the next regular term of the county court, at which term the judge thereof shall have the same spread on the order-book of his court, and said entry of the certificate in the order-book, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence in all proceedings under this act.

"SEC. 6. After the entry of the certificate of the Examining Board, as above provided, in the order-book of the county court, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the said district, town, or city to any person; and any person who sells any such liquors in said district, town, or city shall, upon conviction, be fined the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence.

"SEC. 7. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any manufacturer or wholesale dealer who, in good faith and in the usual course of trade, sells by the wholesale, nor to druggists who sell for medical purposes on a prescription made and signed by a regular practising physician; but no physician shall make or sign any such prescription, except the person for whom it is made is actually sick, and such liquor is absolutely required as a medicine; and any physician who makes or signs any prescription for such liquors, except as provided for in this act, shall be guilty of a violation of this act, and, on conviction, fined twenty-five dollars for each offence.

"SEC. 8. The county judge shall not make the order for the election until the persons signing the petition have deposited with him, in money, an amount sufficient to pay for printing or posting advertisements as provided for, and the fees of the clerk for making entries on the order-book, and other legal fees.

"SEC. 9. The election herein provided for shall not be held oftener than every two years; and in towns, cities, and districts where an election for the purpose and intention of this bill has already been held, no other election shall be ordered until two years from said election.

"SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from its passage.”

OHIO.

THIS State has a prohibitory clanse in its Constitution. Section 18 of Article 16 of the Constitution reads as tollows:

"No license to traffic in intoxicating liquors shall hereafter be granted in the State, but the General Assembly may by law provide against evils resulting therefrom." CIVIL DAMAGE LAW.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE AGAINST THE EVILS RESULTING FROM THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE STATE OF OHIO

PASSED MAY 1, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, by agent or otherwise, to sell in any quantity intoxicating liquors to be drunk in, upon, or about the building or premises where sold, or to sell such intoxicating liquors to be drunk in any adjoining room, building, or premises, or other place of public resort connected with said building.

SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, by agent or otherwise, to sell intoxicating liquors to minors, unless upon the written order of their parents, guardians, or family physician.

SEC. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, by agent or otherwise, to sell intoxicating liquors to persons intoxicated, or who are in the habit of getting intoxicated.

SEC. 4. That all places where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act shall be taken, held, and declared to be common nuisances, and all rooms, taverns, eating-houses, restaurants, groceries, coffee-houses, cellars, or other places of public resort, where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act, shall be shut up and abated as public nuisances, upon the conviction of the keepers thereof, who shall be punished as hereinafter provided. That it shall

SEC. 5. (As amended and took effect April 5, 1859.)

be unlawful for any person to get intoxicated, and every person found in a state of intoxication shall, upon conviction thereof, he fined in the sum of five dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecu