[Approved 3-2-1872]
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey that all saloons located within the corporate limits of the Borough of Frenchtown, in the County of Hunterdon where any vinous or malt liquors are kept and sold to be drunk on the premises shall be required to take out license in the same manner and upon the same terms and subject to the same liabilities that inns and taverns are subject to under the laws of this state.
And be it enacted that the Common Council of said Borough of Frenchtown shall have the power and it is hereby authorized to grant a license, upon due application made to said Council, to any person or persons applying for such license if, in the judgment of said Common Council, the granting of a license to such person or persons so applying will conduce to the public good.
And be it enacted that any person or persons keeping an inn, tavern or saloon within the corporate limits of said Borough of Frenchtown where any spirituous or malt liquors shall be sold to be drunk on the premises without first having obtained a license therefor as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than $100 or be imprisoned in the county jail of said county not less than 20 days nor more than 40 days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
And be it enacted that whenever any license shall be granted to any person or persons aforesaid, it shall operate only as to the person Incensed and not to the house; and said Common Council of said Borough of Frenchtown, upon written complaint to it, made by any citizen of said borough, when sitting as a Council and upon due proof before said Council of the charges in said complaint made, shall have full power to revoke and annul the license by it granted to any person or persons against whom said complaint shall be made; and if any person or persons whose license shall be revoked and annulled as aforesaid shall continue to sell any spirituous or malt liquors to be drunk on his, her or their premises, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the pains and penalties prescribed in § A-32 of this Act, provided that the person or persons against whom any written complaint shall be made as aforesaid shall be served with a copy of said complaint, duly attested by the Mayor and Clerk of said Borough, at least one week before action shall be taken thereon; and that the person or persons so complained of shall be heard before said Common Council, either in person or by attorney, unless he, she or they shall waive a hearing.
And be it enacted that the Common Council shall have power within said borough to make, establish, publish and modify, amend or repeal ordinances, rules, regulations or bylaws for the following purposes: to license and regulate restaurants, victualing houses or cellars, wholesale liquor dealers, billiard tables, bowling alleys and ball alleys and to prohibit the keeping of the same, except by persons duly licensed, and any person or persons violating this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the pains and penalties prescribed in § A-32 of this Act.
And be it enacted that each license granted by virtue of the provisions of this Act shall be under the hand and seal of the Mayor of said Borough of Frenchtown and attested by the Clerk of said borough.