The statutes of the province of Upper Canada [1792-1831]; together with such British statutes, ordinances of Quebec, and proclamations, as relate to the said province.

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Date:
1831
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Credit: The statutes of the province of Upper Canada [1792-1831]; together with such British statutes, ordinances of Quebec, and proclamations, as relate to the said province. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the retail of wines or spirituous liquors, after the fifth day of April, 179-1. [u] See 45th Geo. Ill, c 1. Time and manner of giving public notice an- nually to the persons, liable to the provisions of this act, to comply therewith. [6] See 45th Geo. Ill, c 1,8 1 & 3. Words to he written, painted, or printed over the door of every house of public entertainment Penalty for neglecting. Persons licensed shall enter into bonds to keep a decent and or- derly house. Fees of the secretary or his agents, on licen- ses. [c] See 43J Geo. Ill, c 9. Fee for drawing bond. Retailers not keeping a house of entertainment, exempted from the ad- ditional duty after tho expiration of i wo years. (See 37th Geo. Ill, c 11.) Application of the mo- nies arising by this act. ( See 33d Geo.Ill,c 10.) (Sec 41st Geo. Ill, c 12, s 3.) Poundage of the recei- ver general. (See 4Jst Geo. Ill, c 12 ; 13d, c 9 ; 45th, c 1 ; 46th, c 6; 4Sth, c (!; 56th, c 22. [rf] Repealed by 1st Will. IV, c 15, si. C. 13.—Thirty-third Year of Gtborge III.—1793. [Second Session, April, [a] which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety- four, it shall and may be lawful for the governor, lieutenant governor, or person adminis- tering the government, by or through the secretary of the province, or other person empowered to issue licenses for the vending of wines, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, to ask for, demand, and receive, over and above the sum of one pound sixteen shillings sterling as aforesaid, the further sum of twenty shillings currency, for every license that shall or may be granted to any person for keeping a house or any other place of public entertainment, or for the retailing of wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, within this province. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in every district through- out the said province, one month at least before the fifth day of April, in every year, being the day whereon the said sums of one pound sixteen shillings sterling and twenty- shillings currency, shall be due and payable as aforesaid, the secretary of the province, [6] or other person empowered to issue the said license, shall and he is hereby required to give public notice in the Upper Canada Gazette, or otherwise, to every person selling wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, as aforesaid, to pay the said sum of one pound sixteen shillings sterling, and twenty shillings currency, and to receive or take out a license for the same, and by such public notice to warn every person who shall neglect, omit, or refuse to take out a license, and still continue to retail any wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, in less quantities at any one time than three gallons, of the pains and penalties that they are thereby likely to incur, and hereafter to be inflicted by this act. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person who shall keep a house or other place of public entertainment, for retailing wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, shall cause to be written, painted, or printed over the door of such house of entertainment, in legible characters, the following words; “ Licensed to sell wine and other spirituous liquors,” and every person neglecting to have the aforesaid words, written, painted, or printed as aforesaid, and continuing to keep such a house of entertainment, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings cur- rency, to be recovered before any one of his Majesty’s justices of the peace, upon the oath of one credible witness; one half of which said sum shall be given to the person informing, and the other half paid into his Majesty’s receiver general, to and for the use of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and to and for the use of this province, and towards the support of the civil government thereof. IY. And whereas by a certain ordinance passed in the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty’s reign, it was declared and enacted, that every person taking out a license for the purpose of retailing w’ine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors, should be obliged to enter into a bond with sufficient sureties, to keep an orderly and decent house; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person taking out a license by virtue of this act, shall upon receiving such license from the secretary of the province, or his agent, or other person for that purpose appointed, enter into a bond in the penal sum of ten pounds to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, well and truly to keep a decent and orderly house during the continuance of the said license to him granted as aforesaid. Y. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of the province, or his agent, [c] or other person appointed to grant such license, shall receive from each person to wdiom a license may be granted, over and above the duty hereinbefore specified, the further sum of two shillings and sixpence, for his trouble in making out and issuing the same, and no more; and the clerk of the peace, or other person who shall draw out such bond as aforesaid, shall receive and take the sum of twro shillings and sixpence for his trouble therein as aforesaid, and no more, any thing contained in any ordinance of the province of Quebec, to the contrary notwithstanding. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the additional duty imposed by this act, shall not extend nor be construed to extend to any person not keeping a house of public entertainment for a longer space of time than twTo years next after the fifth day of April, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, but that at and after the expiration of the said term of two years, no person other than such as shall keep a house of public entertainment, shall be obliged to pay for any license to him granted a greater sum than one pound sixteen shillings sterling, as imposed by the above recited act. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said receiver general do pay and apply the monies by him received under and by virtue of this act, in the manner and for the purposes as set forth in a certain act, entitled, “ An act to establish a fund for paying the salaries of the officers of the legislative council and house of assem- bly, and for defraying the contingent expenses thereofand that it shall and may be law ful for the receiver general of the province to deduct from and out of the several sums of money by him received, the sum of three pounds for every hundred [d] pounds that may be raised, levied, collected, and paid by virtue of this act.
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