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Temporary Erections for Sale of Liquors or Gaming, Near Parade Ground, May Be Abated as Nuisances. In Public Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Ch. 82, §5 (1859).

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  • 1859
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"Sec. 5. If any booth shed, tent, or other temporary erection, within one mile of any military parade-ground, muster-field or encampment, shall be used and occupied for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or for the purpose of gambling, the officer commanding said parade-ground, muster-field or encampment, the sheriff or deputy-sheriff of the county, or any justice of the peace, selectman, or constable of the town in which such booth, shed, tent, or other temporary erection is situated, upon having notice or knowledge that the same is so used or occupied, shall notify the owner or occupant thereof to vacate and close the same immediately; and, if said owner or occupant shall refuse or neglect so to do, said commanding officer, sheriff, deputy-sheriff, justice of the peace, selectman or constable, may forthwith abate such booth, shed, tent, or other such temporary erection, as a nuisance, and may pull down or otherwise destroy the same, with the assistance of any force, civil or military."

1859, CT, Temporary Erections for Sale of Liquors or Gaming, Near Parade Ground, May Be Abated as Nuisances


Public Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, May Session, 1859 (Hartford, CT: Day & Clark State Printers, 1859), 62. Ch. 82 An Act in Addition to and in Alteration of "An Act for Forming and Conducting the Military Force," §5 Temporary Erections for Sale of Liquors or Gaming, Near Parade Ground, May Be Abated as Nuisances. Approved 24 June, 1859.