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and kind received, the date when received, the date when delivered, and to whom delivered, after which record there shall be a blank space in which the consignee shall be required to sign his own name, in ink, before such pure alcohol is delivered to such consignee, which book shall be open to the inspection of the public at any time during business hours of the company and shall not be removed from the place where the same is required to be kept. A copy of entries upon any such record herein provided to be kept, when certified to by the agent of any express or railroad company or any public or private carrier in charge of the same, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any court of the Territory.

It shall be unlawful for any person, house, association, firm, company, club, or corporation, his, its, or their agents, officers, clerks, or servants, to ship alcohol or intoxicating liquor to a false or fictitious name or person, or any person to receive or receipt for alcohol or intoxicating liquor in a false or fictitious name.

SEC. 8. That any common carrier or any person operating a boat or vehicle for the transportation of goods, wares, or merchandise may accept for transportation and may transport to any place within the Territory of Alaska shipments of wine for sacramental purposes when there is attached to such shipment a certificate in substantially the following form:

of

"I (or we) certify that this package contains only-
(wine), which has been ordered by

-(amount)

who represents himself to be a duly authorized and officiating priest or minister of the church at and that said wine is

desired for sacramental purposes only.

(Signature of Shipper.)

SEC. 9. That whenever a shipment of wines for sacramental purposes shall have been transported for delivery within the Territory of Alaska the delivering agent of the transportation company must refuse to deliver the same unless it is accompanied by the certificate prescribed in section eight of this Act, and then only to the person to whom the same is addressed or upon his written order. The transportation company must keep a record of all shipments and deliveries of wines. for sacramental purposes and must preserve for a period of one year after their receipt all certificates accompanying such shipments and all written orders upon which deliveries may be made. Such records must be open to the inspection of the public at any time during office hours.

SEC. 10. That any person who shall desire to purchase pure alcohol for scientific, artistic, or mechanical purposes shall apply to the district court aforesaid for a permit for that purpose. To procure such permit he shall make and file with the clerk of the district court a statement in writing, under oath, stating that he desires to purchase pure alcohol for scientific, artistic, or mechanical purposes as provided by this Act.

and giving his name and residence and the place at which such pure alcohol is to be used.

SEC. 11. That if the judge of said district court is satisfied of the good faith of the applicant, he shall issue to said applicant a permit to purchase a reasonable amount of pure alcohol for scientific, artistic, or mechanical purposes. The original of said permit shall have attached thereto a duplicate copy, and each shall be numbered with the same number and be in substantially the following form:

"District Court,

Division, Territory of Alaska, ss.
residing at

is hereby permitted to
(here insert quantity),

purchase pure alcohol in the amount of
to be used for scientific, artistic, or mechanical purposes. This permit
can only be used for one purchase, and the copy thereof attached
hereto shall be conspicuously pasted upon the package containing said
alcohol, and this permit to purchase shall be void after ninety days
from the date hereof.

"By order of the district court aforesaid.
"Dated this

——— day of

nineteen hundred and

"Judge of the District Court."

SEC. 12. That the permit mentioned in section eleven shall authorize the applicant to purchase and any pharmacist to sell and deliver to him the quantity named in the said permit. The permit shall be canceled, kept, and retained on file for at least one year by the pharmacist so selling said pure alcohol, and the copy of said permit shall be, by the pharmacist, conspicuously pasted upon the receptacle containing said alcohol, and shall so remain upon said receptacle so long as the same shall contain alcohol. Said permit and copy shall only authorize one purchase and sale. It shall be unlawful for any pharmacist to sell pure alcohol without the permit herein specified, or for any person to keep or have in his possession any pure alcohol unless the receptacle containing the same shall be distinctly labeled with the copy of the permit authorizing the purchase of the same.

SEC. 13. That it shall be unlawful for any person owning, leasing, or occupying or in possession or control of any premises, building, vehicle, car, or boat to knowingly permit thereon or therein the manufacture, transportation, disposal, or the keeping of intoxicating liquor with intent to manufacture, transport, or dispose of the same in violation of the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 14. That it shall be unlawful for any person to import, ship. sell, transport, deliver, receive, or have in his possession any intoxicating liquors except as in this Act provided.

SEC. 15. That any person who shall in or upon any passenger coach, street car, boat, or in or upon any other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of passengers, or in or about any depot,

platform, or waiting room drink any intoxicating liquor of any kind; or any person who shall be drunk or intoxicated in any public or private road or street, or in any passenger coach, street car, or any public place or building, or at any public gathering, or any person who shall be drunk or intoxicated and shall disturb the peace of any person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 16. That every person who shall directly or indirectly keep or maintain by himself or by associating with others, or who shall in any manner aid, assist, or abet in keeping or maintaining any clubhouse, or other place in which alcoholic liquor is received or kept for the purpose of use, gift, barter, or sale, or for distribution or division among the members of any club or association by any means whatsoever, or who shall maintain what is commonly known as the "locker system" or other device for evading the provisions of this Act, and every person who shall use, barter, sell, give away, or assist or abet in bartering, selling, or giving away any liquors so received or kept, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be subject to the penalties prescribed in section one of this Act; and in all cases the members, shareholders, associates, or employees in any club or association mentioned in this section shall be competent witnesses to prove any violations of the provisions of this section of this Act, or of any fact tending thereto; and no person shall be excused from testifying as to any offense committed by another against any of the provisions of this Act by reason of his testimony tending to criminate himself, but the testimony given by such person shall in no case be used against him.

The keeping or giving away of alcoholic liquors, or any schemes or devices whatever, to evade the provisions of this Act shall be deemed unlawful within the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 17. That if one or more persons who are competent witnesses shall charge, on oath or affirmation, before the district attorney or any of his deputies duly authorized to act for him, presenting that any person, company, copartnership, association, club, or corporation has or have violated or is violating the provisions of this Act by manufacturing, storing, or depositing, offering for sale, keeping for sale or use, trafficking in, bartering, exchanging for goods, giving away, or otherwise furnishing alcoholic liquor, shall request said district attorney or any of his assistants duly authorized to act for him to cause to be issued a warrant, said attorney or any of his assistants shall cause to be issued such warrant, in which warrant the room, house, building, or other place in which the violation is alleged to have occurred or is occurring shall be specifically described; and said warrant shall be placed in the hands of the marshal, his deputy, or any town marshal or policeman in any town in which the room, house, building, or other place above referred to is located, commanding him to at once thoroughly search said described room, house,

building, or other place, and the appurtenances thereof; and if any such be found, to take into his possession and safely keep, to be produced as evidence when required, all alcoholic liquors and all the means of dispensing the same, also all the paraphernalia or part of the paraphernalia of a barroom or other alcoholic liquor establishment, and any United States internal-revenue tax receipt or certifiçate for the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor, effective for the period of time covering the alleged offense, and forthwith report all the facts to the district attorney or his deputy, and such alcoholic liquor or the means for dispensing same, or the paraphernalia of a barroom or other alcoholic liquor establishment, or any United States internal-revenue tax receipt or certificate for the sale of alcoholic liquor, effective as aforesaid, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 18. That it shall not be necessary, in order to convict any person, company, house, association, copartnership, club, or corporation, his, its, or their agents, officers, clerks, or servants of manufacturing, importing, or selling alcoholic liquors, to prove the actual manufacture, importing, sale, delivery of, or payment for. any alcoholic liquors, but the evidence of having or keeping them in hand, stored or deposited, taking orders for, or offering to sell or barter, or exchanging them for goods or merchandise, or giving them away, shall be sufficient to convict; nor shall it be necessary in a warrant, information, or indictment to specify the particular kind of alcoholic liquor which is made the subject of a charge of violation of this Act.

SEC. 19. That all houses, boats, boathouses, buildings, clubrooms, and places of every description, including drug stores, where alcoholic liquors are manufactured, stored, sold, or vended, given away, or furnished contrary to law, including those in which clubs, orders, or associations sell, barter, give away, distribute, or dispense intoxicating liquors to their members by any means or device whatever, as provided in this Act, shall be held, taken, and deemed common and public nuisances. And any person who shall maintain, or shall aid or abet, or knowingly be associated with others, in maintaining such common and public nuisance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section one of this Act, and judgment shall be given that such house, boat, building, or other place, or any room therein, be abated or closed up as a place for the sale or keeping of such liquor contrary to law, as the court may determine.

SEC. 20. That any United States district attorney for the Territory of Alaska may maintain an action in equity in the name of the United States to abate and perpetually enjoin such a nuisance as defined in the preceding section. No bond shall be required. Any person violating the terms of any injunction granted in such proceedings shall be punished for contempt by a fine of not more than $500

or by imprisonment in the Federal jail for not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 21. That if a tenant of a building or tenement is convicted of using such premises or any part thereof or maintaining a common nuisance, as hereinbefore defined, or of knowingly permitting such use by another, the conviction of such use shall render void the lease under which he holds and shall cause the right of possession to revert to the owner or lessor, who may, without process of law, make immediate entry upon the premises, or may avail himself of the remedy provided for the forcible detention thereof.

SEC. 22. That anyone who knowingly permits any building owned or leased by him or under his control, or any part thereof, to be used in maintaining a common nuisance hereinbefore described in section nineteen of this Act, neglects to take all reasonable measures to eject therefrom the person so using the same, shall be deemed guilty of assisting in maintaining such nuisance.

SEC. 23. That no property right of any kind shall exist in alcoholic liquors or beverages illegally manufactured, received, possessed, or stored under this Act, and in all such cases the liquors are forfeited to the United States and may be searched for and seized and ordered to be destroyed by the court after a conviction, when such liquors. have been seized for use as evidence, or upon satisfactory evidence to the court presented by the district attorney that such liquors are contraband.

SEC. 24. That any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this Act where the punishment therefor is not herein specifically provided shall be punished as provided by section one of this Act.

SEC. 25. That in case a pharmacist is convicted under the provisions of this Act the judge of the district court, in addition to the penalty provided in this Act, may, in his discretion, revoke his license to practice pharmacy, and thereafter he shall not receive a license for one year.

SEC. 26. That the issuance by the United States of any internal revenue special tax stamp or receipt to any person as a dealer in intoxicating liquors shall be prima facie evidence of the sale of intoxicating liquors by such person during the time the stamp or receipt is in force and effect.

A copy of such stamp or receipt or of the record of the issuance thereof, certified to by a United States internal-revenue officer having charge of such record, is admissible as evidence in like case and with like effect as the original stamp or receipt.

SEC. 27. That it shall be the duty of the governor of Alaska, the United States marshals and their deputies, mayors, and members of town councils, town marshals, and police officers of all incorporated

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