SEC. 17. That it shall not be lawful for any person, with or without license, to furnish, by sale, gift or otherwise, to any person, any spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors on any day upon which elections are now, or hereafter may be required to be held, nor on Sunday, nor at any time to a minor, or a person of known intemperate habits, or a person visibly affected by intoxicating drink, either for his or her use, or for the use of any other person, or to sell or furnish liquors to any person on a pass-book or order on a store, or to receive from any person any goods, wares, merchandise or provisions in exchange for liquors, shall be held and deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof the offender shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment of not less than twenty nor more than ninety days. SEC. 18. Any house, room or place, hotel, inn or tavern where vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors are sold, offered for sale, drank or given away in violation of any law of this Commonwealth, shall be held and declared a nuisance, and shall be abated by proceedings at law or equity. All expenses connected with such proceedings, including a counsel fee of twenty dollars for the counsel of complainant, shall be paid by the defendant or defendants, SEC. 19. All local laws fixing a license rate or fee less than is provided for in this act be and the same are hereby repealed: Provided however, That none of the provisions of this act shall be held to authorize the sale of any spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof, in any city, county, borough or township having special prohibitory laws. APPROVED-The 31th day of May, A. D. 1887. JAMES A. BEAVER. WHOLESALE LIQUOR LICENSE LAW, 1887. AN ACT Providing for the licensing of wholesale dealers in intoxicating liquors. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all wholesale dealers, brewers, distillers, rectifiers, compounders, storekeepers and agents having stores or offices within this Commonwealth dealing in intoxicating liquors, either spirituous, vinous or malt, pay for each separate store, brewery, distillery, rectifying or compounding establishment or agency an annual license, in cities of the first, second and third classes, the sum of five hundred dollars; in all other cities, the sum of three hundred dollars; in boroughs, the sum of two hundred dollars, and in townships, the sum of one hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid into the State Treasury for the use of the Commonwealth. SEC. 2. Licenses shall be granted only by the court of quarter sessions of the proper county in such manner as is provided by existing laws, and shall be for one year from a date fixed by rule or standing order of said court; the said court shall fix by rule or standing order a time at which application for said licenses shall be heard, at which time all persons applying or making objections to applications for licenses may be heard by evidence, petition, remonstrance or counsel: Provided, That for the present year, licenses may be granted under previous laws at any session fixed by said court, not later than June thirty: Provided further, That it shall not be lawful for any rectifier, compounder, wholesale dealer, storekeeper, agent or bottler to sell in less quantities than one quart, and distillers, brewers and manufacturers shall not sell in less quantities than one gallon. SEC. 3. That all bottlers within this Commonwealth shall be required to procure license from the court of quarter sessions of the respective counties in which they are located, in the manner provided for in the second section of this act, for which they shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars in cities of the first, second and third classes, one hundred dollars in all other cities, boroughs and townships: Provided, That no bottler shall be permitted to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors to be drank upon the premises where sold, nor at any place provided by such seller for that purpose. APPROVED-The 24th day of May, A. D. 1887. JAMES A. BEAVER. An Abridgment of the Game and Fish Laws of Pennsylvania. Game. No person shall kill or pursue any wild deer, save only between the first of October and the fifteenth of December of any year, under penalty of $50, nor have in his or her possession, or offer for sale, any wild deer or fresh venison, excepting from October 1 to November 30, inclusive. No person shall, at any time, kill any fawn when in its spotted coat, or have the fresh skin of such fawn in possession, under penalty of $50. Dogs pursuing deer or fawns may be killed by any person, and the owner of such dog shall be liable to a penalty of $10 for each deer killed by such dog, except in Centre, Clinton, Fayette, Lycoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Union and Wyoming counties. No person shall kill, or have in possession after being killed, any gray, black or fox squirrel, between January 1 and September 1-penalty, $5 for each squirrel; hare or rabbit, between January 1 and November 1-penalty, $5 for each rabbit; wild turkey, between January 1 and October 15-penalty, $10 for each turkey; upland or grass plover, between January 1 and July 15— penalty, $10 for each plover; woodcock, between January 1 and July 4– penalty, $10 for each woodcock; quail or partridge, between December 15 and October 15-penalty, $10 for each quail; ruffed grouse or pheasant, between January 1 and October 1-penalty, $10 for each pheasant. No person shall, at any time, kill or take any wild turkey, grouse or pheasant, quail or partridge, or woodcock, by means of any blind, torchlight, trap, snare, net or device whatever, under penalty of $10 for each bird. No person shall hunt, or permit the hunting of, hares or rabbits with ferrets, under penalty of $10 for each rabbit caught or killed by such means. It is illegal to kill, trap, or expose for sale, or have in possession after being killed, any night-hawk, whip-poor-will, thrush, lark, finch, martin, swallow, woodpecker, flicker, robin, oriole, red-bird, cedar-bird, cat-bird, blue-bird, tanger or any other insectivorous bird, under penalty of $5 for each bird. No person shall rob or destroy the eggs or nests of any wild birds whatsoever (only predatory birds, such as are destructive of game or insectivorous birds), under penalty of $10. No person shall catch, kill or disturb wild pigeons while on nestinggrounds, under penalty of $50. No person, not a citizen of Pennsylvania, may trap or net wild pigeons in any county, unless he shall have first taken out a license from the treasurer of the said county, and paid therefor the sum of $50, for the use of the county. No person shall hunt pheasants during the night-time, in any manner whatever, under penalty of $10 for each offense. It is unlawful to hunt, shoot or destroy any web-footed fowl except from September 1 to April 30, inclusive. At no time is it lawful to hunt, shoot or destroy such fowl from or with any craft or boat propelled by steam or sails. Fish. It is made illegal to catch speckled trout, save only by rod, hook and line. at anytime, or to place any set-lines or set-nets across any stream inhabited by them, under penalty of $25. No person shall kill, sell, or have in possession after being killed, any salmon or speckled trout, save only from the fifteenth of April to the fifteenth of July, under penalty of $10 for each fish. No person shall take, for sale, any trout less than five inches long, or fish in any waters, for three years, in which brook-trout have been planted by the Fish Commissioners, when public notice of said planting has been given, under $20 penalty. No person shall catch or kill, save only with rod, hook and line, at any time, and no person shall catch or sell, or have in possession after being killed, any bass, pike, pickerel or Susquehanna salmon, between the first of January and the first of June, under penalty of $10. Any person taking or capturing a bass of less size than six inches in length, shall immediately return the same to the waters whence taken, under penalty of $10. No person shall catch, kill or remove in any manner German carp of any age or size during the months of May, June, July or August, under a penalty of $5 for each fish. No person shall kill or catch fish by placing any torpedo, giant-powder, nitro-glycerine or other explosive substance in any of the streams of this Commonwealth, under penalty of $50. No person shall catch or destroy fish by shutting off or drawing off any of the waters of the State, or by dragging small nets or seines therein, when the waters are wholly or partly shut off, under penalty of $50. No person shall place any fish-basket, pond-net, gill-net, eel-weir, kiddle, brush or facine-net in any of the waters of this State, under penalty of $25 for each offense. It shall be lawful to fish with fyke or hoop-nets in any of the streams uninhabited by brook or speckled trout, during the months of March, April, May, September, October and November: Provided, That the meshes of said nets shall not be less than one inch in size, and shall not be placed at the con fluence of any wing-walls; and if any salmon, bass, trout, pike, pickerel or any kind of fish introduced by the Commonwealth in said waters, shall be taken or captured by means aforesaid, they shall be returned alive to the waters whence taken, and any person violating the provisions of this act shall be subject to a penalty of $25. It shall not be lawful, at any time, to catch fish by means of the drawing of a seine or seines, in any of the waters of this State, under penalty of $25. Shad shall not be taken in the Susquehanna or Juniata rivers from sunset on Saturday till sunrise on Monday, during the run of shad, from March 15 to June 25, or with seines less than four and one-half inches to the mesh, under penalty of $50 and three months' imprisonment. There shall be no shooting, hunting or fishing on Sunday under penalty of $25. A premium of $2 is to be paid for each wildcat slain, and $10 for every wolf, payment to be made out of the treasury of the county in which the killing is done. Ruffed Grouse or Pheasant, October 1 to January 1. Rail and Reed Birds, September 1 to December 1. ANIMALS. Elk and Deer, October 1 to December 15. Squirrels, September 1 to January 1. Hares and Rabbits, November 1 to January 1. FISH. Salmon and Speckled Trout, April 15 to July 15. Lake Trout, October 1 to January 1. Black Bass, Pike and Pickerel, June 1 to January 1. Penalties for infringements, $5 to $50. CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT. The House of Representatives of the United States is composed of Members elected by districts, with a term of two years, The number apportioned to the State of Pennsylvania has varied at each decennial census, as shown by the following table: To organize and define the Congressional districts of Pennsylvania. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, for the purpose of electing representatives of the people of Pennsylvania to serve in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, this State shall be divided into twentyeight districts, as follows: The First district shall consist of the First, Second, Seventh, Twenty-sixth and Thirtieth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The Second district shall consist of the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Twentieth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The Third district shall consist of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The Fourth district shall consist of the Fifteenth, Twenty-first, Twentyfourth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth wards of the city of Philadelphia. The fifth district shall consist of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first wards of the city of Philadelphia. The Sixth district shall consist of the counties of Chester and Delaware. The Seventh district shall consist of the counties of Bucks and Montgomery. |