Government Liquor License

As there seems to be sonie misappreliension as to the nature and the effect of the license to sell liquors granted by the (Jovernment, we reproduce the law here ander which the same is issued . Sec. 13. Every person who sells, or offers for sale, foreign or domestic distilled spirits, wines, or beer, in quantities of more than flve gallons, shall be regarded a.s a wholesale liquor dealer, and shall pay a special tax of $100. Every person who sells or offers for sale foreign or domestic distilled spirits, wines, or beer, in less quantities than five gallons at the same time, shall be regarded as a retail liquor dealer, and shall pay a special tax of $25. Every person who sells or offers for sale malt liquors in larger quantities than five gallons at one time, but who does not deal in spirituous liquors, shall be regarded as a wholesaler iu malt liquors and not a wholesale liquor dealer, and shall pay a special tax of $50. Every person who sells or offers for sale malt liquors in quantities of five gallons or less at one time, but who does not deal in spirituous liquors, shall be regarded as a retail dealer in malt liquors, and not a retail dealer, and shall pay a special tax of $20. But the payment of any special tax iniposed by this act shall not be held or construed to exempt any porson carrying on any trade, business or profession from any penalty or punishment therefor pro vided by the law of any State ; nor t authorize the commencement or continu anee of any such trade, business or pro fession, contrary to the laws of any State or in places prohibited by municipal law nor shall the payment of any such ta be held or construed to prohibit or pre vent any State from placing a duty o tax on the same trade, business or pro fession for State or other purposes. The number of public houses in S Petersburgh was considerably reduced a the new year. A corresponding diminu ition of liquor shops is to take place a Moscow on the first of July next. N more than 341 will continue to be licens ed - that is, only about tbirty more tha existed ten years ago at the time of th liquor monopoly. Moreover, it has bee decreed that liquor shops and publi houses shall not be tolerated in the prin cipal streets or in squares and open pla ces, nor in the immediate neighborhooc of churches or public offices, frsm whic they must be separated by a distance o at least 250 feet.