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A Section Of Michigan Law

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
December
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent has diseovered anc senda to us a secret provisión fuund on our statute bookp. For tlie benefit oí students of law we publish tlii? communication, containing matters not generally known to our people. Editor Register: - I make the following extracta from Act No. 213 of the Public Actsof 1889: "Section 7. If any persou or persons shall in any manner viólate any of the prov8ions of this act, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, if there is no specific penalty provided theiefor hy this act, shall be imnished by a fine of not hss than Sfty dollars nor more than twohundred dollars and costa uf prosecution, or by ímprlsonment in the county iail no less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discrelion of the court. And in case ftneh fine and costs shall not have been paid at the time such imprisonment expires, the person serving out sucli sentence shall be further deiaiu d in jail until sueh fine and costs have been fully paid: Provided, That in no case shall the wbole term of imprisonment ezceed six inonths. Each violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be cjustrued to constitute a separate and complete offense, and for each violation on tlie same day or different days, the person or persor.d ff"oridHs; sh 11 be Hable to the penal ties herein provided. "Sec. 16. AU saloons, restaurants, bars in taverns or elsewhcre, and all other places except drug stores, where any of the liquors miintioned in this act are sold, or ke(,t for sale, either at wholesale orretail, shall be closed on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, on all election days, on all legal holidays, and until seven o'clock of the folowing morning, and on each week day night from and after the hour of nine o'elnck until seven o'clock of the morning of the succeeding day: Provided, That in all cities and incorporated villages, the common council or board of trustees, or council, may, by ordinanee, allow the saloons and other places where said liquors shall be sold to remain open not later than eleven o'clock in the afternoon and no longer of any week day night, exoept on election days and holidays. The word 'closed' in Ihissection shall be construed to apply to the back door or other entrance as well as the front door. And in prosecutions under this section it shall not be necesíary to prove that any iquor was sold: Provided, The fact that the door of any saloon, restaurant or bar is opened at any time when by the provisions of this act such saloon, restaurant or bar is required to be closed, shall be prima facie evidence ol a violation of the provisions of this act. "Sec. 31. During the time when, by the provisions of this act, places where liquor is sold or kept for sale must be closed, all curtains, screens, partitions and othsr things that obstruct the view from the sidewalk, street, alley or road in front of or at the side orend of said building, or the bar or place in said room where said liquors are sold or kept for sale, shall be removed. Any person who shall viólate any of the provisiona of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided in seotion seven of this act." Query. How man y thousand dollars mipht have been saved to the county if the prosecuting attorney had proceeded against every violator of any of the provisinns ot the act?Possib'y if Jastice Grant, of the .supreme conrt, were to give an address or two here, suoh as those he has delivered in Linsing and Detroit, some of onr officials would get tbeir eyes opened.

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