The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
License Act
License Act.
Chap. 3.—No person may keep within the Province any inn or temperance hotel, restaurant or steamboat bar, wholesale or retail liquor shop, railway buffet, tavern at the gold mines, or place for selling intoxicating liquors; or carry on business as a bottler of fermented liquors, or an auctioneer, pawnbroker, pedlar, ferryman at points on the St. Lawrence below mentioned, keep a billiard table for gain, keep a powder magazine, or sell powder or show a circus or menagerie without first obtaining a license. An inn includes a hotel or tavern; a wholesale liquor shop is where intoxicating liquors are sold in quantities not less than 3 gals, wine measure, or 1 doz. bottles; a retail, where not less than than 3 hf. pts. same measure are sold, in neither case to be drunk on the premises: powder includes nitro-glycerine and all explosive substances.