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SPIRIT LICENCES . 121 OF 1886. ] 855


a period not exceeding six months besides any other penalties
to which he may be liable under this ordinance.
No person shall be convicted under this section if he shows
to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whoin he is charged
that he did not know that the liquor sold by him was adulte
rated , and that he could not have known it with any reasonable
diligence.
Sale of intoxicating liquors.
6. No person shall sell or dispose of,or advertise or expose Unlicensed
for sale any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale or retail sale prohibit
within the Colony, or shall permit or suffer any such intoxicat- [11 of 4+. 1.]
ing liquor to be sold or disposed of or advertised or exposed
for sale in his house or other place within the Colony without
a licence under this ordinance. The delivery of any intoxicat
ing liquors shall be taken, in any proceeding under this
ordinance, to be primâ facie evidence that money or other
consideration was given for the same.
7. The holder of a retail or grocer's licence may also sell Wholesale
intoxicatingliquorswholesale, but no person shall sell intoxicat- and . retail
(See. 11 of 44.
ing liquors by retail without a licence to that effect, and this 21.
section shall apply to all retail sales of liquor to any person on ]
pretence that he is a customer for other gcods, as well as to all
sales of quantities exceeding two gallonswith an understanding
that part is to be returned , and generally, to any act whatever
which, under whatsoever pretence, constitutes à retail sale of
intoxicating liquor.
8. The Colonial Secretary may at any time issue temporary Temporary
licences.
licences for the sale of liquors at any public entertainment or
on any public occasion on payment of such fee in each case as
to the Governor shall seem fit.

Public house, and adjunct licences.
9. Every person desirous of obtaining a publican's or adjunct Application
licenceshall giveten days' notice to the Magistrates in the [for11 licence,
of 44. 3. ]
form of schedule B or C according to the nature of the licence
required .
10. The Magistrates, or either of them , may from time to Sessions.
time appoint a day for the granting or transferring of licences, [11 of 44. 4.]
which shall be advertised in the Government Gazette and a
public newspaper at least one week previously, and the said
Vagistrates, or either of them , with the assistance of such other
Justices of the Peace as may attend on the said day, shall take
into consideration all applications which may have been made

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