Liquor sales amendment (1833) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

GULIEL1VII IV. REGIS,

No. 2.

An Act to amend an Act, intituled " An Act to regulate the Sale of Spirituous and Fer- mented Liquors by Retail.

HEREAS by an Act of the Governor, with the advice of the Recital o2f the Act of

No.

W Legislative Council, passed in the second year of His pre- Zo of Spirituous and Fer-

;On:regulating m .

sent Majesty, intituled "An Act to regulate the Sale of Spirituous	mented Liquors by Re-
and Fermented Liquors by Retail," it is, amongst other things,	tail.
enacted, that if any master or other employer shall directly or in- directly pay or agree to pay any journeyman, workman, servant, labourer, or other person hired or employed by or for him or her in any manner whatsoever, for or on account of wages, hire, or reward for work or service, either in whole or impart, in or by any

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such Liquors as aforesaid, or shall make any set-off against, or de- duction from such, wages hire or reward for or in respect of any such

Recital of necessity for Liquor, such master or employer shall forfeit and pay for every such altering that part of the offence any sum not less than Five Pounds, or more than lwentysaid recited Act which

imposes a Penalty on Pounds. And whereas it is expedient to alter such part of the said vents in Spirituous orMasters paying their Ser- recited Act as imposes a penalty or forfeiture on masters or employers

Fermented Liquors. paying their journeymen, workmen, servants or labourers, in or by

any spirituous or fermented liquors;—Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for any master or employer (residing out of the town boundaries of Perth,

From the passing of this r, .

Act, Masters may supply Fremantle,a Gu ildford, Albany, and Augusta,) to supply any journey.

quantity of the aforesaid	their Servants with any man , workman, servant or labourer with any quantity of spirituous
Liquors, not exceeding in or rermented liquors, not exceeding in any one week the amount offermented any one week one-third one-third of the wages or earnings of such journeyman, workman,of the Servant's wages or
earnings for such week. servant, or labourer during such week ; and to set off or deduct the

value of the Liquors so supplied—but not exceeding the amount above limited,—against or from the wages or' earings of the person or persons to whom the same shall have been supplied.

the said recited Act, none thatbut licensed Publicans wad no License granted_ under the same shall empower any retail	Further recital that, by IL AND -whereas it is further enacted by the said recited Act
in less quantities than onewere empowered ti, sell dealer, not being also licensed to keep a Public House, to retail any gallon, and that it is ex- such Liquors in a less quantity than one gallon. And whereas it is pediunt to allti: the sal"' expedient to alter such enactment, and to license persons (not being

also licensed Publicans) to retail any such Liquors as aforesaid in

Fai.1.1, r icenses tzr.y be is- strictions : Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of v..,, . :into a! present'less quantities than one gallon, under certain conditions and re-

tons, not Publicans, to.4"Qè eraPGweri"g Per- this Act, it shall be lawful for the Collector of Colonial Revenue to retail in any quantity not issue Licenses to any 'person or persons, not being a Licensed publi- less than one quart. can or publicans, to sell by retail any spirituous or fermented

liquors in any quantity less than one gallon, but not less than One

License Duty. quart; and that for every such license there shall be paid to the said

Collector the respective sums hereinafter mentioned--that is to say, for every such license to retail at Perth. or Fremantle, the sum of Twenty-five Pounds ; at Guildford, Augusta, or King George's Sound, the sum of Twenty Pounds; at any other place in the said

A License not to author- colony the sum of Ten Pounds. Provided always that no License ire consumption on the to be .,

place of sale.

oe granted uuder this Act shall authorize the consumption on the

place of sale, of any liquor sold by virtue of such license. And any

Retail Dealer, not being also a licensed publican or duly licensed

Persons not being 1,11bn-under this Act, who shall be convicted of having Sold, exchanged?

cans or licen sed. unde

Act, retailing less retailed any of the aforesaid liquors in a less quantity than Sr

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than one quart, subject quart, or of having suffered any such liquors to be consumed on 1115 to a penalty n ut exceed- p remises by the purchasers thereof, shall forfeit and pay for even

in g Tenty Ponds. w

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such offence a sum not excceeding Twenty Pounds, to be awarded and recovered in like manner as the forfeitures and penalties imposed by the said recited Act are thereby directed to be awarded and re-

covered. ■

RICHARD DANIEL,

Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander-in-Chief.

Passed the Legislative Council

30th day of December, 1833..1

H. 0, SUTHERLAND,

Clerk to the Council.