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Penalty on retailers of wine permitting drunkenness, &c. in their houses.
First Offence.
Second offence.
Third offence.
Penalty for mixing spirits or drugs with wine or adulterating wine.
First offence.
Second offence.
Penalty for selling wine within five years after conviction of second offence.
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31. Every person licensed under this Act to sell wine by retail who shall permit any person to be guilty of drunkenness or other disorderly conduct in the house or premises mentioned in such licence, or who shall himself be guilty of any such disorderly conduct, shall for every such offence forfeit the respective sums following; and every person who shall transgress or neglect or shall be a party in transgressing or neglecting the conditions and provisions specified in such licence, or shall allow such conditions or provisions to be in any way transgressed or neglected in the said house or premises, shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct; and every person so licensed, who shall permit or be guilty of any such disorderly conduct, shall for the first offence forfeit any such sum not less than forty shillings nor more than five pounds, as the justice or justices before whom he shall be convicted of such offence shall adjudge, and for the second offence any sum not less than five pounds nor more than ten pounds, and for the third such offence any sum not less than twenty pounds nor more than fifty pounds; and it shall be lawful for the justice or justices before whom any such conviction for any such second or third offence shall take place to adjudge, if he or they shall so think fit, that such offender shall be disqualified from selling wine by retail for any term not exceeding five years next ensuing such conviction, and to cause a certificate of such conviction to be transmitted to the collector of Inland Revenue within whose district the person so convicted shall reside; and if any person so licensed as aforesaid shall mix or cause to be mixed any spirits or any drugs or other pernicious ingredients with any wine sold in his house or premises, or shall fraudulently dilute or in anyways adulterate any such wine, or shall sell or offer for sale any wine which, to the knowledge of such person, has been so mixed, diluted, or adulterated, he shall for the first offence forfeit any sum not less than ten pounds nor more than twenty pounds, as the justice or justices before whom he shall be convicted of such offence shall adjudge, and for the second such offence he shall be disqualified from selling wine by retail for the term of five years, or forfeit any sum of money not less than twenty pounds nor more than fifty pounds, at the discretion of the justice or justices before whom he shall be adjudged guilty of such offence; and if any offender convicted of such second offence as last aforesaid shall during such term of five years sell any wine by retail, either in the house and premises mentioned in his licence or in any other place, he shall forfeit any sum not less than twenty-five pounds nor more than fifty pounds, and shall be subject to a like penalty at any and every house or place where he shall commit such offence.
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