1 before which such conviction shall be had shall issue and cause to be served upon the owner of the building used for such illegal keeping or sale, if such owner reside within the jurisdiction of such court or magistrate, and is not the person so convicted, a written notice, which shall recite that the tenant of said building has been convicted as aforesaid, and a return of the same shall be made to the court or magistrate issuing it; which notice, so served, shall be deemed to be due and sufficient notice under the provisions of section nine of chapter eighty-seven of the General Statutes. SEC. 17. The following forms may be used in prosecutions for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors, and, if substantially followed, shall be deemed sufficient to fully and plainly, substantially and formally, describe the several offences in each of them set forth, and to authorize the lawful doings of the officers acting by virtue of the warrants issued in substantial conformity therewith; but this shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of other suitable forms. [Approved April 25, 1876.] RHODE ISLAND. RHODE ISLAND has a license law of forty-six sections, passed June 25, 1875. Town councils of the several towns, and the boards of aldermen in the several cities, are empowered to grant or to refuse to grant annual licenses to sell liquor to such extent as they may think proper. The sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited "on Sunday, or to any minor, or person of notoriously intemperate habits." A bond of $1,000 is required, and other provision is made to prevent violations of the law. Licenses are to be posted in a conspicuous position in the room or place where the liquor is sold. There is a civil damage proviso, and payments for liquors unlawfully sold cannot be enforced. An act passed March 14, 1876, makes it the duty of the license commissioners of the city of Providence to report annually on or before the 1st of February to the Legislature the number of licenses granted, to whom, the amount of money received therefor, "together with such other information as they may deem desirable or expedient.” CONNECTICUT. THE following law was adopted in 1872, to take the place of the old prohibitory law: AN ACT IN ALTERATION OF AN ACT CONCERNING LICENSES AND Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of each county in this State shall, at any regular meeting, by an instrument in writing under their hands, license and authorize any suitable person or persons to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, and lagerbeer in the several towns in said county; provided that said license or licenses shall only be given to such person or persons as shall be recommended by a majority of the selectmen of the town where such business is to be carried on as suitable and fit therefor; and provided, further, that such person or persons, before receiving a license, shall file with the said board a bond to the treasurer of said county, in the sum of one thousand dollars, with good and sufficient surety or sureties, for the due observance of all laws that are or shall be made respecting taverns and spirituous liquors; and all licenses so granted shall be in force for one year and no more. Such license shall specify the town within which, and the particular building or place within such town where, such liquor may be sold, and shall not be deemed to authorize such sale in any other town, building, or place; and every person so licensed who shall make any such sale in any other town, building, or place than the one specified in such license shall be subject to all the penalties provided by law for unlicensed persons, and may be proceeded against, prosecuted, and punished as such; and any town may at any meeting duly warned and held for that purpose, by a major vote of the electors present at said meeting, instruct the selectmen of the town not to make any recommendation for the granting of licenses under this act; and, if any town shall instruct the selectmen thereof, as aforesaid, then said selectmen shall be prohibited from making any recommendations for the granting of licenses, and any selectman who shall recommend the licensing of any person after a vote of the town instructing him to the contrary shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in a common jail for a period not exceeding sixty days, or by such fine and imprisonment both. SEC. 2. Said board of county commissioners, or the major part thereof, shall revoke any license so granted for any violation of this act. No license shall be granted, and any license if granted shall be void, unless the application thereof shall be in writing, signed by the applicant in person, and a copy lodged and kept on file with the town clerk of the town in which the privilege of selling liquors s sought, subject to public inspection at least two weeks. SEC. 3. Any person so licensed shall pay to said board a sum not less than one hundred dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, as said commissioners shall determine for such license, and said board shall pay over the sum so received to the treasurer of the town in which the person so licensed to sell resides. SEC. 4. Any person or persons who shall sell, without being so licensed, or after notice of the revocation of such license, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale, or lager-beer, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by such fine and imprisonment both. SEC. 5. Any person or persons so licensed who shall sell to any minor any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale or lager-beer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction they shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. SEC. 6. Any person or persons so licensed who shall sell to any drunkard, knowing him or her to be such, or to any husband or wife, after notice from either said husband or wife not to sell to the other, or to any person in a state of intoxication, any spirituous er intoxicating liquor, ale, or lager-beer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days, or by such fine and imprisonment both. SEC. 7. The attorney for the State, in each of the counties of the State, and the grand jurors of the several towns, and the prosecuting officers of the cities of the State, shall, upon the complaint of any person, verified by oath, file informations against any person or persons for the violation of this act. SEC. 8. If any person shall, while in a state of intoxication, do or cause (in consequence thereof) any damage or injury to any other person, or to the property of another, then, in such case, whoever sold the liquor to such person, whereby the person doing or causing such injury became intoxicated, shall be liable to pay to ne party injured just damages, to be recovered in an action on this statute; and, if the party selling such liquor is a licensed dealer under this act, said amount may be recovered from the urety or sureties on his or her bond, provided it does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars. SEC. 9. The bond to be taken on the issuing of each license may be in the following form: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we A B, of as principal, and C D, of bound unto the treasurer of the as surety, are held and firmly and his successors in office, in the sum of one thousand dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs and assigns. Signed with our hands and sealed with our seals this day The condition of this obligation is such that, whereas the abovebounden A B has this day been licensed by the board of county commissioners of the county of to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, and lager-beer in the town of ǹ said county, now, if the said A B shall comply with all the provisions of the act under which said license is issued, and also shall pay all damages which shall be recovered from him under and pursuant to the provisions of said act, then this bond to be void, otherwise of full force in the law. SEC. 10. Every person who shall keep a house, store, shop, saloon, or other place in which it is reputed that spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale, or lager-beer are kept for sale, without having a license therefor, according to the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in a common jail not exceeding thirty days, or by such fine and imprisonment both. SEC. 11. All clerks, agents, bar-keepers, or employees employed in the keeping of any such place shall incur the same penalties and be proceeded against in the same manner as principals. SEC. 12. Any person who shall receive a license from the board of county commissioners shall cause this written license to be suit ably and properly framed, and shall hang the same in some conspicuous place in the room where spirituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, and lager-beer are offered for sale, so that the same may be seen and read by any person who may visit said room. SEC. 13. All acts or parts of acts, so far as they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. SEC. 14. This act shall take effect from and after the 15th day of September, A.D. 1872. The following act was adopted July, 1874: CHAPTER CXV. AN ACT in alteration of and in addition to an Act entitled "An Act in addition to An Act concerning Crimes and Punishments." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly conven‹ d.: SECTION 1. No person shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or own or keep with intent to sell or exchange, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, ale, or lager-beer, unless he shall have previously obtained a license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Any county commissioner or other officer who shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the du'ies imposed upon him by this act, or the act to which this is in addition, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars, one-half to the treasurer of the State of Connecticut, and the other half to the person who shall prosecute for the same to effect. SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of each county in this State shall, at any regular meeting, by an instrument in writing under their hands, license and authorize any suitable person or persons to sell or exchange spirituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, and lager-beer in the several towns in said county. Provided, that said license or licenses shall only be given to such person or persons as shall be recommended by a majority of the selectmen of the town where such business is to be carried on, as suitable and fit therefor : and provided further, that such person or persons, before receiving a license, shall file with the said board a bond, to the treasurer of said county, in the sum of one thousand dollars, with good and sufficient surety or sureties, for the due observance of all laws that are or shall be made respecting taverns and spirituous liquors, ale, and lager-beer, and all licenses so granted shall expire on the thirty-first day of October in each year. Such license shall specify the town within which, and the particular building or place within such town, |