Monarch

GEORGE III

Year

1798

Title

38 Geo. III, c. 73,

Description

An Act for continuing and amending an Act passed last Session of Parliament intitled An Act for regulating the issuing of Licenses for the Sale of Wine Ale Beer Cider and Spirituous Liquors by Retail and for preventing the immoderate Use of Spirituous Liquors and for granting to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors the Duties therein mentioned.

Classification

Revenue, licences - spirit and wine retailers, licence £30 Dublin, £20 two-mile radius of Circular Road, £15 two-to-five-mile radius of Circular Road; Cork, Waterford, Limerick, licence £30 and in environments £20; Kilkenny, Londonderry, Armagh, Galway, Drogheda, Belfast, Newry, Dundalk, Clonmel, 1 1/2 miles from market place £15; £6 elsewhere in Ireland. Those who do not wish to pay increased fee may surrender their licences for remainder of term, those selling less than 1 gallon wine, 1 pint spirits or 10 gallons ale deemed retailers; selling beer or ale without licence, penalty 10s; spirits not to be sold before 4 p.m. Sunday, sunrise on other days; inns not to entertain combinations; no workers to receive wages there; selling spirits without licence, £30 1st offence, £40 subsequent offences in Dublin, Cork, etc., £10 elsewhere; no United Irishman or gaoler to be issued with a licence [rv]