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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

Accommodations, &c

Accommodations, &c.

Inns and temperance hotels in a village or country parts, must contain three furnished bed rooms apart from those used, by the family, a stable with stalls for four horses, and must be provided with food for travellers and their horses. In towns and cities they must have a kitchen and dining accommodation for ten persons, and two bedrooms. Restaurants must be suitably furnished and to the satisfaction of the Comrs. in Montreal. The license must be shewn to and kept exposed in the bar or elsewhere, as ordered by the Inspector. The sign over the door must state the purpose for which the place is licensed in letters three inches long, and a bottler's vehicle in letters two inches long. In country places in letters of four inches over the door or on the sign post. Peace and order must be kept and gambling not allowed, and only one bar kept open in places where liquors are sold by the glass. No sales to be made to drunken persons, minors under sixteen, nor after 8 p.m. to soldiers, sailors, apprentices or servants, nor to any one after midnight till 5 a.m., or from 11 p.m. on Saturday till 5 a.m. on Monday, unless for medicinal purposes upon orders of a doctor or J.P. and not to be drunk on the premises. During those hours the bars must be closed. None of the licensees except for liquor shops can, in cities, trade in groceries, &c. Travellers may not be refused accommodation in an inn or temperance hotel without just cause. They may not be lodged at restaurants. Any contravention of the foregoing provisions is punishable by a fine of $10 to $50.