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tlie evidence offered, and grant or refuse such permit as the public good may require. 

 If there be more than one permit applied for in the same locality they shall all be 

 heard at the same time, unless for good cause otherwise directed, and the court may 

 grant or refuse any or all of the applications as will best subserve the public interest. 



SEC. 7. Permits granted under this act shall be deemed trusts reposed in the 

 recipients thereof, and may be revoked upon sufficient showing by order of the court 

 or judge thereof. Complaint may be presented at any time to the district court, or 

 one of the judges thereof, which shall be in writing and signed and sworn to by three 

 citizens of the county in which the permit was granted, and a copy of such complaint 

 shall, with a notice in writing of the time and place of hearing be served on the 

 accused five days before the hearing, and if the complaint is sufficient, and the 

 accused appear and deny the same, the court or judge shall proceed without delay, 

 unless continued for cause, to hear and determine the controversy, but if continued 

 or appealed at the instance of the permit holder, his permit to buy and sell liquors, 

 may, in the discretion of the court, be suspended pending the controversy. The com- 

 plainant and accused may be heard in person, or by counsel, or both, and submit such 

 proofs as may be offered by the parties; and if it shall appear upon such hearing 

 that the accused has in any way abused the trust, or that liquors are sold by th e 

 accused or his employes in violation of law, or if it shall appear that any liquor has 

 been sold or dispensed unlawfully or has been unlawfully obtained at said place 

 from the holder of the permit or any employe" assisting therein, or that he has in any 

 proceeding, civil or criminal, since receiving his permit, been adjudged guilty of 

 violating any of the provisions of this act or the acts for the suppression of intem- 

 perance, the court or judge shall by order revoke and set aside the permit ; the papers 

 and order in such case shall be immediately returned to and filed by the clerk of 

 the court, if heard by the judge and the order entered of record as if made in court, 

 and if in this or any other proceeding, civil or criminal, it shall be adjudged by the 

 court or judge that any registered pharmacist, proprietor, or clerk who has been 

 guilty of violating this act or the act for the suppression of intemperance and 

 amendments thereto, by unlawfully manufacturing, selling, giving away, or unlaw- 

 fully keeping with intend to sell intoxicating liquors, such adjudication may, in the 

 discretion of the commissioners of pharmacy, if such violations are thereafter 

 repeated, work a forfeiture of his certificate of registration. It shall be the duty 

 of the clerk to forward to the commissioners of pharmacy such transcripts without 

 charge therefor, as soon as practicable after final judgment or order. 



SEC. 8. Registered pharmacists, who show themselves to be fit persons and who 

 comply with all the requirements of this act, may be granted permits, and in any 

 township where there is a registered pharmacist conducting a pharmacy and no phar- 

 macist obtains a permit, if found necessary the court may grant a permit to one dis- 

 creet person in such township not a pharmacist, but having all other qualifications 

 requisite under this act, upon like notice and proceedings as pertain to permitted 

 pharmacists and subject to the same liabilities, duties, obligations, and penalties. 



SEC. 9. The clerk of the court granting the permit shall preserve as a part of the 

 record and files of his office all petitions, bonds, and other papers pertaining to the 

 granting or revocation of permits, and keep suitable books in which bonds and 

 permits shall be recorded. The books shall be furnished by the county like other 

 public records. Whether said permit be granted or refused, the applicant shall pay 

 the costs incurred in the case, and when granted he shall make payment before any 

 permit issue, except the court may tax the cost of any witnesses summoned by 

 private persons resisting said application, and the fees for serving such subpoenas 

 to such persons, when it is shown that such witnesses were summoned maliciously, 

 or without probable cause 1o believe their evidence material. A fee of one dollar 

 and fifty cents shall be taxed for the filing of the petition, and one dollar for enter- 

 ing the order of the court approving bond and granting said application, and wit- 

 nesses shall be entitled Jo mileage and per diem as in other cases. And fees for 



