Ordinances Of The City Of Nauvoo Passed By The City Council At Different Meetings Ad 1849 PDF Download

Excerpt from Ordinances of the City of Nauvoo: Passed by the City Council, at Different Meetings, A. D. 1849 Sec. 1. That every tavern, grocery, house, shop or alley, that shall be kept for the purpose of selling any spirituous, vinous, mall or mixed 1 liquors, under any pretence whatsoever, in quantities less than one quart, within the limits of trie City of Nauvoo, without a license from the City Council cf the City of Nauvoo, shift be considered a public nuisance, and every person keeping the same as principal or agent, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance, and subject to a fine of Five Dollars, for every day such tavern, grocery, house, shop, or alley, or beer house, shall be kept open. Sec. 2. All applications for a license to keep a tavern, grocery, coffee house or dram shop, shall be by petition presented in writing to the City Council of the City of Nuuvoo, setting forth where such tavern, grocery, coffee house, or dram shop is to be kept, and the name of the applicant, and if the City Council of the City of Nauvoo shall consider such license ought to be granted; they shall order the clerk to issue said licence. Provided, said Applicant does first pay into the city treasury the sum of forty-five Dollars, and execute his bond with one or more sureties to be approved by the Mayor of said city, according to the statute in such case made and provided, and the applicant shall pay the City Clerk the further sum of fifty cents for issuing the said license. Provided, also, that any applicant who applies for a license, for keeping and retailing beer and cider, excluding all wines and distilled liquors, shall be entitled to receive the same on payment of Ten Dollars into the treasury, and complying with all other conditions contained in this section. Sec. 3. That in all cases where the applicant has an alley, commonly called a "Nine pin Alley," containing any number of pins attached or contigious to said tavern, grocery, coffee house, or beer house, where he permits people to play for amusement, he ha l pay into the City treasury the sura of Fifteen Dollars in addition to the sum required in the preceding section, before receiving his license. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.