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The following were two interesting things I learned while at the University of Kentucky Law Library yesterday researching for the upcoming Trial event. The first sounds so modern.
Both are from A Digest of the General Laws of Kentucky, 1866 though these are laws are dated 1860 and 61, and were not revoked through 1866 -- I did not look to see if they were in '66 as that's beyond our general interest. :tounge_sm
Another under Taverns and Tippling Houses.
Linda.
Both are from A Digest of the General Laws of Kentucky, 1866 though these are laws are dated 1860 and 61, and were not revoked through 1866 -- I did not look to see if they were in '66 as that's beyond our general interest. :tounge_sm
Taverns and Tippling houses. March 2, 1860. Prohibiting sale to minors without written consent of parent or guardian.
That hereafter no person shall sell to any white person, under the age of twenty-one years, any spirituous or vinous liquors, or the mixture of either, unless by the written consent or request of the father of such minor, if living, or of the mother or guardian of such minor if the father be dead; and any person so offending shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense...
That hereafter no person shall sell to any white person, under the age of twenty-one years, any spirituous or vinous liquors, or the mixture of either, unless by the written consent or request of the father of such minor, if living, or of the mother or guardian of such minor if the father be dead; and any person so offending shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense...
October 3, 1861 That it shall be unlawful for any one to sell to any officer or soldier any intoxicating liquor within five miles of any military camp; and if any person shall, within five miles of any mililtary camp, sell any intoxicating liquor to any officer or soldier, he shall be fined in the sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, for each and every such offense. Any commissioned officer of a camp may have an offender against this act arrested and carried before a justice of the peace, who shall, as a court of inquiry, hold the party arrested to bail to answer before the circuit court, or discharge him, as the proof may require: Provided, That nothing in the act shall prevent the purchase of liquor by the medical department of the army.
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