$690. The Minister of the Interior may, upon the application of any person, issue to such applicant any license hereinafter enumerated, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.

Except as otherwise herein provided, a license granted under this Act shall only authorize the carrying on of the business licensed at the place indicated in the license. Except in case of removal, and upon the written consent of the Minister endorsed thereon.

$691. Wherever in this Act the word "Minister" is used, it shall refer to and mean the Minister of the Department of the Interior of the Republic of Hawaii.

$692. From and after the date of the passage of this Act, all licenses issued for carrying on the several businesses, or doing the acts herein enumerated, shall be issued by the Minister of the Interior in accordance with the terms and conditions and for the fees herein enumerated, for the respective terms of one year from the several dates of issue. The carrying on of any business, or the doing of any act herein enumerated, except upon obtaining a license in conformity with the provisions of this Act, is hereby forbidden.

$693. Any person or persons who shall after the date of the passage of this Act engage in or carry on any business, or do

any act herein enumerated, the engaging in or doing which is herein required to be licensed, without first obtaining a license issued in conformity with the provisions of this Act; or who shall sell any goods, wares, merchandise, produce or thing of value, contrary to the terms of this Act; or who shall violate or fail to observe any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, unless otherwise herein provided, be fined a sum not less than the annual fee, and not more than twice the annual fee herein prescribed for the carrying on of such business, or the doing of such act.

Provided, however, that any person now carrying on business under an existing license may continue to do so until the expiration of such license, subject to the terms, conditions and penalties prescribed in the several Acts under which such licenses are severally issued, notwithstanding the repeal of such Acts by this Act.

$694. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon all District Magistrates to hear and decide all cases arising under this Act in their respective jurisdictions.

$695. No license shall be issued under this Act until the full fee required herein shall have been paid in advance for the term of one year.

$696. No license issued hereunder shall be transferable.

PART II-ALCOHOL.

$697. Wherever in this Act the words "methylated spirits" are used, they shall mean ethylic alcohol to which has been added at least one-ninth its bulk of pyroxylic spirits.

Wherever in this Act the word "alcohol" is used, it shall mean the ordinary alcohol of commerce known as ethylic alcohol.

$698. The Minister of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant to any holder of a license to import and sell poisonous or other drugs, a license to sell methylated spirits and alcohol. The annual fee for such license shall be the sum of fifty dollars.

$699. Before granting said license, a good and sufficient bond to the Minister in the sum of one thousand dollars, secured in not less than double the amount of the penalty, shall be required. The condition of the bond shall be, that the holder of said license shall observe and comply with the provisions of Sections 702 and 703 of this Act.

The Minister is authorized to require any other conditions or security to insure the due observance of this Act.

$700. All importations of alcohol and preparations thereof and of methylated spirits, by or for a license under this Act, shall be sent direct from the importing vessel to the Custom House for inspection.

The Collector-General of Customs is hereby authorized to permit holders of the licenses herein provided to withdraw methylated spirits from the Custom House upon payment of a luty of one dollar per gallon.

The Collector-General shall cause such alcohol to be methylated in the Custom House, if such process has not already taken. place, and to be examined and passed upon by the Government Chemist, or other officer appointed for the purpose, who shall previous to withdrawal certify that the same has been properly methylated as required by this Act.

$701. The Collector-General of Customs is hereby authorized to permit any holder of a license herein provided for, to withdraw not more than 150 gallons of alcohol in any one year, from the Custom House, upon the payment of two dollars per gallon duty.

Provided, however, that the 150 gallons so to be withdrawn shall only be used by said licensee for medicinal purposes, or for sale to duly licensed physicians.

And further provided, that all alcohol in excess of said 150 gallons that may be so withdrawn by said licensee, shall pay a full spirit duty, according to its strength, as provided by law for spirits of like strength.

$702. The holders of licenses for the sale of methylated spirits and alcohol under this Act are hereby prohibited from selling alcohol to any person but a duly licensed physician; and no greater quantity than one gallon at any one sale shall be sold to any such physician.

$703. It shall be incumbent upon any holder of a license under this Act to keep a book in which he shall write or cause to be written down the quantity of alcohol sold at each sale, the date of such sale, the name of the physician to whom the alcohol was sold, also the quantities consumed by the licensee and the purposes, itemized in detail, for which it was used. Such book, and the quantity of alcohol in possession of the licensee, shall always be accessible for inspection by any clerk or officer of the Government whom the Minister of the Interior may appoint to perform such inspection.

It shall also be incumbent upon any holder of a license under this Act during the first week of every month to file with the Minister of the Interior a sworn statement, showing the amount of alcohol on hand at the beginning of the preceding month, the quantity sold during the month, to whom, the quantity consumed by the licensee, and also the amount remaining on hand at the end of such month.

$704. Any person who shall be convicted of selling or furnishing methylated spirits or alcohol without a license to sell shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars.

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and for the second offense be fined not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, and the license shall be forfeited, and the penalty named in the said bond shall at once become due.

PART III.-STOCK AND SHARE BUSINESS.

$705. The annual fee for carrying on a stock and share business be one hundred dollars.

$706. The term "stock and share business" for the purposes of this Act, shall mean the buying or selling of corporation stocks or shares for a commission or other compensation or reward.

PART IV.-Awa.

$707. The Minister of the Interior is authorized to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, between the first and seventh day of December in each and every year, licenses to sell awa for each taxation district in the Republic of Hawaii.

Each such license shall be for the term of one year from the first day of January next ensuing.

$708. The Licenses for the Island of Oahu shall be sold under the direction of the Minister at the front entrance of the Executive Building, or at such other place as he may direct; and on the other Islands they shall be sold by the Sheriffs or their Deputies, in the respective districts for which they are to be granted.

$709. The time and place of sale shall be duly advertised in both the English and Hawaiian languages, in some newspaper published on the island where the license is to be sold, if any is published there; and on the islands other than Oahu, posted in at least three prominent places in each of the districts where the sales are to be held.