Applications for in certain cases, a licence Jorown as a justice's certificate must be first obtained from the local justices, and then the excise licence must be taken out—the latter will not be granted until the former has been obtained. The licence duties payable by a beer retailer are now defined by the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, and will be found in the article on LIQUOR LICENCES in the Appendix to Vol. 1V. The certificates are in force for a whole year from the date of granting, which date is, in Middlesex, Surrey, and London, the 5th day of April, and elsewhere the 10th day of October ; but of course a temporary or occasional licence would continue in force only so long as the magistrate's order. The cases which are excepted from the necessity of first obtaining a justice's licence or certificate are—(a) Dealers in beer, not being brewers, who sell at one time to be consumed off the premises, strong beer only in casks containing not less than four and a half gallons, or in not less than two dozen reputed quart bottles; (b) Proprietors of theatres duly licensed for stage plays. Generally, in other cases, the justice's certificate or licence is a necessary pre liminary to obtaining the excise licence. Wholesale dealers of beer, as above, may sell at any time, even within prohibited hours ; provided they sell not less than the minimum total quantity in one'transaction, the beer may be put up in any size of bottle, small or large, that may be desired. The bar of a theatre cannot be kept open beyond the closing hours of the place in which the theatre is situated.
In order to obtain a justice's licence, application must be made to the magistrates either (a) at the general annual licensing meeting and its adjournment ; (b) before the confirming authority ; (c) at a special transfer sessions ; or (d) at Petty Sessions. The general annual meeting is known as the Brewster Sessions, and due notice of its date and place is given to the public. By the Licensing Act of 1910 this meeting is held, in every licensing district, within the first fourteen days of the month of February in each year ; and every adjournment thereof is held within one month of its date. An intending applicant for a licence must give written notice of his intention, and serve the same on one of the overseers of the place in which his premises are situate, and on the superintendent of the police of the district, at least twenty-one days before making the application. If his premises have never
before been so licensed, he must also affix a written notice upon the principal door, or one of the doors, of the church or chapel of the parish in which his premises are situate. This must be done within twenty-eight clays before the application, and the notice must be maintained during two consecutive Sundays. The notice must also be advertised in a local paper not more than four and not less than two weeks before the proposed application.
4 Closing hours in London are : on Saturday night from midnight until 1 P.M. on the following Sunday, and then from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. ; on Sunday night from 11 P.M. until 5 on the following morning ; and on all other days from 12.30 A.m. until 5 A.M. on the same morning. Elsewhere, generally, in a place with a population of not less than a thousand, the closing hours are : on Saturday night from 11 P.M. until 12.30 P.M. on the following Sunday ; on Sunaay from 10 P.m. until 6 A.M. on the following morning ; on other days from 11 P.M. until 6 A.M. on the following day. In other cases the hours are : on Saturdays from 10 P.M. until 12.30 P.M. on the following Sunday ; on Sunday from 10 P.m. until 6 A.M. on the following day ; and on other days from 10 P.M. until 6 A.M. on the following day. In Wales the must be closed during the whole of Sunday. See also INN KEEPER ; LICENSING.
go about, as a general practice of life, gathering or collecting alms is to become a rogue and vagabond and liable to punishment. To obtain money by sending or delivering a lying begging letter is to obtain money by false pretences ; whilst to attempt so to do, or to obtain charity of any description, under any false or fraudulent pretence, including an untrue begging letter, is also to become a rogue and vagabond, and on a second conviction to become liable to be dealt w ith and punished as an incorrigible rogue. See FALSE PRETENCES AND CHEATING.