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Nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit the issuance of general
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<br />warrants whereby an officer may be commanded to searchosuspected places without evidence
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<br />of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is
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<br />not particularly described and supported by evidence.
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<br />Sec.14. The police justice shall have original jurisdiction for the trial of all cases
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<br />arising under this ordinance, with the right of appeal to the defendant to the Corpora-
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<br />tion Court.
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<br />Sec. 15. Upon such appeal being taken the defendant shall be required to enter into a
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<br />recognizance in the penalty and with security to be approved bythe said justice, to ap-
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<br />pear before the next term of the Corporation Court. All merterial witnesses shall also
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<br />be recognized with or without security, as the justice may deem proper at the next term
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<br />of the Corporation Court, to give evidence, and if the person so charged shall have been
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<br />previously convicted of the violation of this ordinance, thejustice may require of the
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<br />person so charged to give bond with penalty and security, to be approved by said justice,
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<br />conditioned that he will not violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, until the
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<br />charge against him has been tried or dismissed, and upon failure to give such bond, he
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<br />shall be coinmitted to jail until the bond is given, or he is discharged by the Court,
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<br />Sec. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to resist, impede or obstruct,
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<br />or in any manner to hinder or delay any legal officer having in his hand any search
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<br />warrant, issued by any officer of the City having the right to issue the same, under the
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<br />provisions of this ordinance, in the execution of such warrant.
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<br />Any person so resisting, impeding, obstructing, or in any way hindering or
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<br />delaying any officer in the execution of a legal search warrant in his hands shall be
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<br />guilty of a misdemeanor.
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<br />Sec. 17. Nothing in this ordinance shall interfere with the jurisdiction of courts, as
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<br />it at nresent exists, for the trial of criminal cases without a jury.
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<br />Sec. 18. Whenever ardent spirits shall be seized in any room,building, car, or other
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<br />place, searched under the provisions of this ordinance, the finding of such ardent spirits
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<br />or of a United States Liquor Dealer's Tax Receipt in any such place, shall be prima facie
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<br />evidence of the unlawful manufacturing, selling, keeping and storing for sale, gift, or
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<br />use by the person or persons occupying such premises, or by any person named in any
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<br />United States Internal Revenue Tax Receipt posted in any room or found anywhere on said
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<br />premises, or else here,and the proprietor or other Verson in charge of the premises where
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<br />such ardent spirits are found, or who is so named in such United States government tax
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<br />receipts, shall be tried on the charge of manufacturing, selling and keeping and storing
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<br />for sale unlawfully.
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<br />Sec.19. Any person who shall take a drink of ardent spirits or shall offer a drink to
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<br />another,whether accepted or not, in any railroad station, or in any day coach, or pull -
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<br />man car, or on any passenger train, or in anystreet car, hack or jitney, or other public
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<br />conveyance, or automobile, or in any street, or alley, highway or in any other public
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<br />place,whether of like kind or not or any person in charge of or employed in connection
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<br />with any car, boat, hack, jitney, or other public conveyance or automobile, who shall
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<br />procure for or assist in procuring, or who shall give any information or direction by
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<br />which any person may secure ardent spirits in violation of this ordinance, shall be guilty
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<br />of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one
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<br />hundred dollars.
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<br />Sec. 20. It shall be unlawful for any person to give ardent spirits to any person of in
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<br />temperate habits or addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, or for any person, except
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<br />a parent or guardian, to give any ardent spirits to a minor, except on the prescription
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<br />of a physician, or to send a mirror or a female to obtain ardent spirits.
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<br />Any person of intemperate habits or addicted to the use of any narcotic drug,
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<br />found to be intoxicated or under the influence of ardent :spirits, or any narcotic drug,
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<br />shall be compelled in any proceeding had under this ordinance to disclose from whore he
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<br />has received ardent spirits or drug. For a failure or refusal to make such disclosure
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<br />he shall be guilty of contempt and shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more
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<br />than fifty dollars and be committed to the jail for a period not exceeding thirty daye.
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<br />It shall be a misdemeanor for any mirror to have ardent spirits in his possession
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<br />or under his control. whether belonging to himself or another, and upon conviction, he
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<br />shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, and, in the discretian
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<br />of the Justice or Court, he may be sentenced to jail for not less than one nor more than
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<br />six months. And it shall appear in any prosecution, under this section, that such minor
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<br />is acting as the agent of another person, or under his influence or control or by hie
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<br />direction, :such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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<br />Sec. 21. If any section or provision of this ordinance, or any hart of any section shall
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<br />be declared unconstitutional -by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, or the Supreme
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<br />Court of the United States, or the Corporation Court, the part so declared unconstitutional
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<br />shall cease to be operative, but the remainder of the ordinance and every section or part
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<br />thereof not so declared unconsitutional shall continue to be the law of the City
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<br />Sec. 22 . Any person who has drunk enough ardent spirits to affect his manner, disposition
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<br />speech, muscular movement, general appearance or behavior, as to be apparent to observation,
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<br />shall be deemed for the purpose of this ordinance to be intoxicated, and if he shall con-
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<br />tinue to use ardent spirits as a beverage during the period of one year, so as to produce
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<br />the above results from time t) time, he sht ll be deemed a person of intemperate habits
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<br />in the meaning of this ordinance.
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<br />Sec. 23. Any bell boy, elevator boy, or employee of any hotel or place of public enter-
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<br />tainment in this City who shall procure or assist in procuring, or who shall give in-
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<br />formation or direction to any guest or patron of such hotel or house of public or private
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<br />entertainment, or other person, by which said guest or other Person may secure andeifty
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<br />spirits, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten nor more than one nor
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<br />dollars and be confined in, jail or committed to the reformatory for not less than one nor
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<br />more than six months.
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<br />Sec. 24, Any proprietor of any Hotel or house of public or private entertainment in this
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<br />who shall knowingly permit any bell boy, elevator boy, or other employee to, or who
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<br />shall himself procure ardent spirits for, or give direction and information by which ardent
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<br />spirits can be secured by any guest, patron or other person, or who when duly notified that
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<br />any employee has been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this ordiance,
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<br />shall fail at once to discharge said employee permanetly, shall upon conviction thereof
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<br />be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and for any sub-
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