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Fee or duty to be
paid for license.
Surrender of li-
cense.
Police license to
keepahouseinwhich
Levy of arrears of
tax or duty.
Punisbmentfor breach
. of license.
284 ACT XL [A.D. 1849.
a counterpart engagement in exact conformity with the tenor of such
license.
IX. Whenever a license shall be granted under this Act, the collector
shall be authorized to demand, in consideration of the privilege granted,
such fee, tax, or duty as may, from time to time, be fixed, with the sanction
of the Board of Opm772; and such fee, tax, or duty may
be made payable in advance, or at such period as may be settled by the
collector.
X. The collector may withhold or recall a license, if any such fee, tax,
or duty be not duly paid, according to the conditions upon which the
license is granted, or in case of a breach of any of the other conditions
thereof, or, with the sanction of the commissioner of abkarry, for any
other cause, giving one month's notice of such withdrawal; and any person
selling by retail any spirituous or fermented liquors, or intoxicating
drugs above specified, within the town of Calcutta, whilst such license is
withheld, or after it is recalled, shall be subject to all the penalties pro-
vided by this Act for the unlicensed sale of spirituous or fermented liquors,
or intoxicating drugs.
XI. Any licensed retail dealer may surrender his license on giving
fifteen days' previous notice to the collector, and paying a sum equal to
the tax for that time, over and above the sum payable under the license.
XII. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace for the
town of Calcutta to grant a license to open or establish or keep open any
hotel, punch-house, boarding-house, or any other house of public enter-
tainment, within the town of Calcutta, in which any spirituous or
fermented liquors or intoxicating drugs, above specified, may be sold to
any person who has not taken out a license for the retail sale of such
liquors and drugs ; and any such license, granted by any justice of the
peace, shall beome void whenever the license for the retail of such
liquors and drugs granted to such person is withheld or recalled by the
collector under this Act.
XIII. The collector, after demand made in writing, may levy any
arrear of tax or duty, due on account of any license granted under this
Act, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person from
whom the same is due, provided that no such arrear shall be recoverable
after the end of two years next after the same shall have become due, or
next after an acknowledgment of the same in writing shall have been
given by the person by whom the same is payable.
XIV. A breach of any of the conditions of a license granted under this
Act shall, beside entailing forfeiture of the license, be punishable by a
fine not exceeding fifty rupees, and such fine shall be recoverable from the
licensed dealer, notwithstanding that such breach may have been owing to
the default or carelessness of the servant or other person in charge of the
shop.
paid for license.
Surrender of li-
cense.
Police license to
keepahouseinwhich
Levy of arrears of
tax or duty.
Punisbmentfor breach
. of license.
284 ACT XL [A.D. 1849.
a counterpart engagement in exact conformity with the tenor of such
license.
IX. Whenever a license shall be granted under this Act, the collector
shall be authorized to demand, in consideration of the privilege granted,
such fee, tax, or duty as may, from time to time, be fixed, with the sanction
of the Board of Opm772; and such fee, tax, or duty may
be made payable in advance, or at such period as may be settled by the
collector.
X. The collector may withhold or recall a license, if any such fee, tax,
or duty be not duly paid, according to the conditions upon which the
license is granted, or in case of a breach of any of the other conditions
thereof, or, with the sanction of the commissioner of abkarry, for any
other cause, giving one month's notice of such withdrawal; and any person
selling by retail any spirituous or fermented liquors, or intoxicating
drugs above specified, within the town of Calcutta, whilst such license is
withheld, or after it is recalled, shall be subject to all the penalties pro-
vided by this Act for the unlicensed sale of spirituous or fermented liquors,
or intoxicating drugs.
XI. Any licensed retail dealer may surrender his license on giving
fifteen days' previous notice to the collector, and paying a sum equal to
the tax for that time, over and above the sum payable under the license.
XII. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace for the
town of Calcutta to grant a license to open or establish or keep open any
hotel, punch-house, boarding-house, or any other house of public enter-
tainment, within the town of Calcutta, in which any spirituous or
fermented liquors or intoxicating drugs, above specified, may be sold to
any person who has not taken out a license for the retail sale of such
liquors and drugs ; and any such license, granted by any justice of the
peace, shall beome void whenever the license for the retail of such
liquors and drugs granted to such person is withheld or recalled by the
collector under this Act.
XIII. The collector, after demand made in writing, may levy any
arrear of tax or duty, due on account of any license granted under this
Act, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person from
whom the same is due, provided that no such arrear shall be recoverable
after the end of two years next after the same shall have become due, or
next after an acknowledgment of the same in writing shall have been
given by the person by whom the same is payable.
XIV. A breach of any of the conditions of a license granted under this
Act shall, beside entailing forfeiture of the license, be punishable by a
fine not exceeding fifty rupees, and such fine shall be recoverable from the
licensed dealer, notwithstanding that such breach may have been owing to
the default or carelessness of the servant or other person in charge of the
shop.