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porter (or in any cider or perry); nor fraudulently dilute, deteriorate, or adulterate, any beer, ale, or porter (or any cider or perry); nor sell any beer, ale, or porter (or any cider or perry), knowing the same to have been fraudulently diluted, deteriorated, or adulterated; nor use, in selling any beer, ale, or porter (or any cider or perry), any measures which are not of the legal standard; nor wilfully or knowingly permit any drunkenness, or any violent, or quarrelsome, or other disorderly conduct in his (or her) house or premises; nor knowingly suffer any unlawful games, or any gaming whatsoever therein; nor knowingly permit or suffer persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together therein; nor permit or suffer any beer, ale, or porter (or any cider or perry), to be drank or consumed in or upon, or to be conveyed from or out of his (or her) premises, between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon, and one of the clock in the afternoon, nor between the hours of three and five of the clock in the afternoon, on Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving; nor at any time before the hour of four of the clock in the morning, or after the hour of ten of the clock in the evening, of any day; but do maintain good order and rule therein; and all provisions for billeting Officers and soldiers in victualling-houses, contained in any act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters, are to extend and apply to the house and premises mentioned in this license: and this license shall continue in force from the

of

next, until the

day of

day then

condition,

next ensuing, and no longer: Provided, and upon that the said A. L. shall not in the mean time become a

sheriff's officer, or officer for executing the process of any court of justice, nor shall in the mean time cease to be a householder; and this license shall cease and determine, and shall become void, in case any of the conditions or regulations contained therein shall be transgressed, or shall not be observed, by the said A. L. under our hands and seals (or my hand and seal), this Day of

Given

One Thousand Eight Hundred and

at

THE

PUBLICAN AND INNKEEPER'S

GUIDE,

&c. &c.

1. Precautions necessary to be observed by Persons entering into the Public Line. EVERY person should, as I have said in my ADDRESS, before he enters into business, inform himself of the best methods of managing wines, and malt and spirituous liquors. The next object of his care should be, to select a proper situation for carrying on his business; and in this choice, more than ordinary circumspection is necessary, especially where he intends to purchase the goodwill of a business already established.

In no case should he place faith in the statements of the seller, however specious

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and apparently fair they may appear. Nor is there any safe-trusting to his brewer's, or his wine and spirit-dealer's bills of deliveries. These are often prepared as traps for the unwary; to catch those who trust to outside appearances, and showy and enticing representations. But every prudent man should be on his guard; should inquire, examine, and be satisfied of the truth of all statements and professions, before he parts with his money, or enters into any undertaking by way of agreement or promise. Among all the good old sayings for the regulation of life and conduct, there is none more deserving of attentive observance than this: "That the best trusting is to one's own eyes." For want of attention to this piece of good advice, many a purchaser of the goodwill of a public-house, has had to accuse himself for the best part of a long and laborious life. And this attention is in no particular more necessary in the sale and purchase of goodwills, than in the affair of brewers' and distillers' bills of deliveries for a short period pre

ceding the contemplated sale of the premises. I have known several instances in which purchasers, by giving too much credit to those vouchers, have had to repent of their credulity. I could specify more than one instance where venders of licenses have, for two or three months prior to the sale of their goodwill, sold beer and spirits at reduced prices, so as to occasion a great demand for those articles during that period; and the case has not been a solitary one, where the brewer or distiller has made out an invoice for larger deliveries, during a few months previous to the sale of the goodwill, merely to enable his debtor to obtain a better price, part of which was to reach his pocket, by way of liquidation of a ticklish debt due to him by the vender. As much precaution is necessary in investigating the correctness and accuracy of the flowing and specious accounts of the auctioneers engaged in the sale of goodwills of public-houses. It is but of very recent occurrence, that a respectable man, who had accumulated a few hundred