Chapter 73. To amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia.”May 11, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia
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CHAP. 73.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia.”May 11, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. That section sixteen of an Act entitled “An Act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the district of Columbia,” approved the third day of March, eighteen hundredSale of intoxicating liquors. 76 and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 16. That license for any of the purposes specified in any sectionLicenses near schools, etc., forbidden.Vol. 27, p. 567, amended. of said Act shall not be granted to any person to conduct such business within four hundred feet of a public schoolhouse, private school, or house of religious worship, measured between the nearest Measuring distance.entrance to each by the shortest course of travel between such place of business and any schoolhouse, private school, or house of religious worship, except in such places of business as were located and licensed at the date of the said Act or previous to the erection or occupation of *Proviso*.Hotels.such schoolhouse, private school, or place of religious worship: *Provided*, That no hotel hereafter established shall be licensed that has less than twenty-five rooms for guests, and all Acts and parts of Acts Oaths, etc., by excise board.inconsistent herewith are repealed: *Provided*, The members of the Excise Board shall have the power to administer oaths or affirmations Penalties.in any matter affected by the operation of this Act.
And any person having taken such oath or affirmation who shall knowingly and corruptly give false testimony before said board or any member thereof as to a material fact shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction shall be punished by a tine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years, or both at the discretion of the court.” " That section three of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amendedAssistant clerk.Vol. 27. p. 564. by adding thereto the following:
“And said Board shall appoint an assistant clerk at a salary not to exceed one thousand dollars.” That section fifteen of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amendedSworn informations.Vol. 27, p. 567. by striking out the words “of two reputable citizens of the District” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “satisfactory to either of them” Approved, May 11, 1894.