$1,000.00 in all other counties, and the provisions as to candidates in counties having cities of the first class shall apply to all other counties, except as to amount expended.

17. No candidate for representative in the General Assembly in a primary, or before a convention, shall expend or have expended for him together, exceeding $350.00, and this sum shall not be exceeded in the final election; no candidate for State Senator in a primary or before a convention shall expend or have expended for him together, exceeding $500.00, and this sum shall not be exceeded in the final election.

§ 18. No candidate for any other office in this State in a primary or before a convention or caucus shall expend or have expended for him together, exceeding $500.00, and the sum shall not be exceeded in the final election.

§ 19. Any person violating any provision of this act where no other penalty is provided shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00.

$20. The statement of any person testifying in any case pending under the provisions of this act shall not be used against him in any prosecutions or civil proceeding.

§ 21. The grand jury in each county in this State is given full power to investigate any violation of this act, and to that end may compel any corporation, company or association to produce all books, correspondence or papers which may show or tend to show any violation of this act, and may compel any officer, agent, employe, custodian or other person having the possession of any such books, correspondence or papers, or other evidence material to the matter under investigation to appear and

testify, and any such person refusing to obey any such summons from the grand jury or refusing to appear and testify, shall be proceeded against for contempt, and upon conviction fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.00 or imprisoned not exceeding one year. Approved March 13, 1916.

CHAPTER 14.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4203 Kentucky Statutes, relating to the granting of license to persons to retail intoxicating liquors; and to regulate the issue of license for the purpose of retailing spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, and to require the location and description of the place for which such license is valid, and to forbid the use of blinds or screens in such places during such hours and days as liquor may not be sold, and providing for the forfeiture of such license, and for the prosecution of certain officials for failure to discharge duties imposed upon them.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Section 4203, Kentucky Statutes, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

All license mentioned in this article, except license. to sell by retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, shall be granted by the county clerk, except as otherwise specifically provided for; and all license to sell by retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be granted by the county court, unless specifically provided for in corporations under municipal charter or amendments thereto, but neither the county court nor such other officials, as are authorized under law to grant such license, shall grant a license to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquor until ten days'

notice shall be given by posting a written or printed notice at the door of the court house, or city hall, or municipal building, as the case may be, and at four other public places in the neighborhood where the liquor is to be sold; and if the majority of the legal voters of the neighborhood shall protest against the application, it shall be refused. The county court, or such other officers as are authorized by law to issue such license, in each instance shall determine what constitutes the neighborhood; nor shall any such license be granted to any person of bad character, or who does not keep an orderly, law-abiding house; nor until such person to whom a license is granted shall take an oath in open court, or before the officers having power to grant such license, that he will in good faith conduct an orderly, law-abiding business, which shall in substance be as follows:

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"Whereas, A. B. has been granted a license to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors at retail at County: Now, I, A. B., do hereby covenant to and with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that I will not sell or otherwise dispose of, any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or any of them, on Sunday, or on any other day forbidden by law, and that I will conduct an orderly, law-abiding business and will not suffer any gaming, scandalous or disorderly conduct in my place or on my premises.'

If any person, holding a license to retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, shall violate the provisions of his declaration taken on oath at the time such license is granted, or shall violate any of the provisions of this or any other act prohibiting the sale of such liquors on Sunday or at other times, and any citizen of the county shall make affidavit showing such violation, it shall be the duty of the

Commonwealth's Attorney immediately on receiving said affidavit to file a petition in equity in the name of the Commonwealth in the circuit court of the county praying a forfeiture, of the license herein provided for, and in the event he shall fail or refuse to file such petition any citizen residing in the county where the license is granted may in the name of and for the use and benefit of the Commonwealth by such citizen as relator, file a petition in equity in the circuit court of the county asking that the license be forfeited, which suit shall be tried by the court as other equity cases, and the Commonwealth or the defendant shall have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals as in other equity cases. But before any citizen shall be permitted to file any such action for the forfeiture of such license he shall require to file his own affidavit and the affidavit of some other citizen of said county that the provisions of the law as above indicated have been violated. The act of any agent or any person acting for the person to whom such license has been granted, shall be deemed the act of the principal and the principal shall be held responsible for the acts of such agent the same as if he had committed such acts in person. Upon the trial of any such action instituted by the Commonwealth's Attorney or by any citizen as herein provided, if the evidence discloses that the holder of any such license has been guilty of any such violation of this act or of any other law as to the sale of liquor on Sunday, for the first offense the court shall enter judgment forfeiting the license issued by the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the county court or county clerk. After judgment for the first offense has been entered as herein provided against the defendant, if he again violates the law as indicated above, he shall in like manner be

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preceded against, and if it again be adjudged that he has violated the law judgment shall be entered forfeiting the license issued by the Commonwealth as aforesaid and by the municipality. If after a second conviction he again violates the law, he shall in like manner as for the first two offenses be proceeded against, and if judgment is for the third time entered against him all license issued or held by him shall be forfeited and no license shall thereafter be granted or transferred to him for a period of one year, and no such license shall be granted or transferred to any person authorizing such person to transact or carry on such business in the building occupied by the defendant at the time judgment for the third offense was entered against him for a period of one year thereafter. In suits to forfeit the license of any person instituted by a citizen as herein provided, the cost of the suit shall be against the licensee in case of forfeiture, and the amount thereof may be recovered from him by a motion or other proceedings as in other cases, and there shall be included as a part of the cost a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court which shall be paid as other costs of the suit.

§ 2. In granting a license for the sale by retail of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or any of them, it shall be the duty of the county court or other officer authorized by law to issue such license, to require in the application for such license the exact location by street and number of the property to be used under such license, if granted, together with the name of the owner of the property at the time of the issue of the license; and also to delimit and describe the premises for which such license shall be valid, together with all doors, windows and other apertures thereto. The sale of any such liquors in