Liabilities of the Excise.

Note 4. "License shall not be granted unless the Commissioners are satisfied that the applicant is of good moral character," Section 12. So far as I know, there is no judicial decision definitely describing this kind of person; but common sense and high authority in lexicography describe "good moral character" as "a life conformed to rules of right; as one who respects social duties; one who is virtuous, just." To license a person notoriously unlike and opposite to this description of character—as Excise boards sometimes knowingly do—is to violate their oath of office, and render themselves indict able for misdemeanor, 7 Barbour, 477.