VIRGINIA. 



759 



sold is known as a bar-room license, nnder 

 which no wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, nor 

 any mixture thereof, shall he sold to be taken 

 away from the place of delivery, but shall be 

 drunk there. Any person desiring to carry on 

 the business of a retail liquor merchant, and 

 also that of a bar-room keeper, is required to 

 obtain a separate license for each, and to com- 

 ply with all the provisions of the law in rela- 

 tion to both privileges. Any person selling 

 without a license shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than 

 twenty dollars nor more than five hundred dol- 

 lars, and be imprisoned not less than one month 

 nor more than twelve months. 



It was made the duty of the auditor of pub- 

 lic accounts to have made a bar-room register, 

 to be supplied to the various cities, towns, and 

 counties of the State. The instrument adopted 

 by the act for this purpose was known as the 



Moffett Register. This is abont the size of a 

 common cigar box. All the machinery is in- 

 closed within a box, which is made of cast-iron. 

 On the front of the box is a combination of 

 dials, registering from 1 to 1,000,000. On the 

 reverse side is a crank. The register is per- 

 manently fixed on a counter, with the dial fac- 

 ing the customer, and the crank nearest the bar- 

 tender. Where malt and spirituous liquors are 

 sold, there is a register for each, appropriately 

 labeled. When a glass of lager-beer is sold, 

 the bar-tender turns the crank once, a gong or 

 bell within the box sounds one, and the hands 

 on the dial move forward one point. The al- 

 coholic register is the same, but the latter liquor 

 is taxed 2J cents a drink, the former J cent a 

 drink. The duties of the commission of the 

 revenue, and the regulations to be observed by 

 retail dealers, are set forth in sections 4 and 

 5 of the law, as follows : 



MOUNT VERNON. 



4. Whenever the commissioner of the revenue of 

 any county, city, or town shall receive from the au- 

 ditor of public accounts the necessary registers, lie 

 shall immediately cause the same to be firmly fixed. 

 according to plans and instructions furnished by said 

 auditor, in a conspicuous place in the room of deliv- 

 ery and place of business of every bar-room keeper 

 r retail dealer licensed under the provisions of this 

 act within his district. When the bar-room keeper or 

 retail dealer desires to sell malt liquor under His li- 

 cense, there shall be placed an additional register, 

 in like manner as above required, and one is to be 

 marked as a malt-liquor register, and the other as an 

 alcoholic-liquor register, in such form and characters 

 as the said auditor shall prescribe. The commis- 

 sioner of the register shall see that the instruments 

 are well located, firmly attached, and kept in good 

 working order, and for this purpose shall, from time 

 to time, inspect the same ; and if, after such register 

 shall have been nut in use, it becomes inoperative or 

 out of order, it shall be the duty of the commissioner 

 of the revenue, upon notice of the fact, to be at once 

 given to him by the dealer, to replace it immediately 

 with a good and perfect instrument, and charge the 

 licensed dealer so supplied with the cost of repairing 

 or replacing the injured register. The auditor of pub- 

 lic accounts shall provide each commissioner of the 



revenue with a sufficient number of registers to enable 

 him to comply with the requirements of this section. 

 The number of registers which may be necessary to 

 the proper registration of the sales of each licensed 

 dealer shall be determined by the commissioner of 

 the revenue of the district in which such dealer re- 

 sides. Every register shall be locked after each in- 

 spection by the commissioner of the revenue, and the 

 key retained in his possession ; and he shall seal the 

 register after each inspection in such manner as the 

 auditor of public accounts may direct. The character 

 of the lock and seal required by this section shall I e 

 prescribed by the said auditor. 



6. After the registers provided for in the next pre- 

 ceding section snail have been placed in the bar- 

 room or place of business of licensed dealers, it shall 

 be the duty of the retail dealer, immediately on the 

 sale of every half pint, fraction, or multiple thereof, 

 of ardent spirits, wines, malt liquors, or any mixture 

 thereof, in the presence of the purchaser, or person 

 to whom it is delivered, to turn the crank of the 

 proper register until the bell has struck once, and the 

 indicator on the dial has moved one point or number 

 for each half pint, or multiple thereof, so sold, up t" 

 and including one gallon. It shall, in like manner, 

 be the duty of the bar-room keeper, immediately upon 

 the sale of each drink of wine, ardent spirits, malt 



