tailer has not previously obtained the ale 'licenses from the Magistrates, but he may be proceeded against as if he had sold without having obtained any license.

The time of granting licenses for keeping inns in the City of London, is not altered by the Stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 33; and the 30th and 36th sections of the Act provide, that the privileges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and of the Vintners' Company, London (except such freemen as have obtained their freedom by redemption only), and of the Mayor and Burgesses of St. Alban's, shall be unaffected by that Statute.

4. Application for Ale License in case of Death, Change of Occupancy, Bankruptcy, or other Contingency.

If any licensed person die, or by sickness or other infirmity be incapable of keeping an inn, &c. or become bankrupt, or take the benefit of an insolvent act; or if any person so licensed, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, remove

from, or yield up the possession of the house licensed; or if the occupier of a licensed house, being about to quit it, have wilfully omitted, or have neglected to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting, or any adjournment thereof, for a new license; or if any house, being kept as an inn by any licensed person, shall be, or be about to be, pulled down, or occupied under the provisions of any Act for the improvement of the highways, or for any other public purpose; or shall be, by fire, tempest, or other unforeseen and unavoidable accident or calamity, rendered unfit for the reception of travellers, and for other legal purposes of an inn; the Justices assembled at a special session may grant to the heirs, executors, &c. of the person so dying, or to the assigns of such person becoming incapable of keeping an inn, or to the assignee or assignees of such bankrupt or insolvent, or to any new tenant or occupier of any house having so become unoccupied, or to any person to whom such heirs, executors, &c. shall, by sale or otherwise,

have bona fide conveyed, or otherwise made over, his or their interest in the occupation and keeping of such house, a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be consumed in such house, or the premises thereunto belonging; or they may grant to the person whose house shall have been, or shall be about to be, pulled down, or occupied for the improvement of the highways, or for any other public purpose, or have become unfit for the reception of travellers, or for the other legal purposes of an inn or public-house, or who shall open and keep as an inn or public-house, some other fit or convenient house, a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be consumed therein; provided that every such license shall continue in force only from the day on which it shall be granted, until the 5th of April, or 10th of October then next, as the case may be. But every person intending to apply under this clause, in any of the specified cases, at any such special session, for a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be consumed in a house, or premises thereto belonging,

in which exciseable liquors shall not have been sold by retail, to be consumed on the premises, by virtue of a license granted at the General Annual Licensing Meeting next before such special session, shall, on some one Sunday within the six weeks next before such special session, at some time between ten and four in the day, affix on the door of such house, and on the door of the church or chapel of the parish or place in which such house shall be situate, and, where there is no church or chapel, on some other public or conspicuous place within such parish or place, such and the like notice as is before directed to be affixed by every person intending to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for a license to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be consumed in a house not heretofore kept as an inn, and shall, in like manner, serve copies on one of the overseers of the poor, and one of the constables and other peace officers of such parish or place.-Stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 61, s. 14.

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5. Application to Transfer an Ale License.

Every person holding a license under this Act, or his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, being desirous to transfer such license to some other person; and intending to apply at the special session then next ensuing for permission to do so, is, within five days at least prior thereto, to serve a notice of such his intention, on one of the overseers of the poor, and on one of the constables or other peace officers of the parish or place in which the house kept by the person so holding such license is situate; and every such notice is to be written in a fair and legible hand, or printed, and signed by the party intending to make such application, or by his authorized agent, and is to set forth the christian and surname of the person to whom the transfer is to be made, together with the place of his residence, and his trade or calling during the six months previous to the time of serving such notice.-Sect. 11. The form of the notice of such transfer is: