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 SIXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 53. 1917. 907 away. or otherwise fiunishing alcoholic liquor, shall request said district attorney or any of his assistants diily authorized to act for him to cause to be issued a warrant, said attorney or any of his _ assistants shall cause to be issued such warrant, in which warrant the B°"‘°° °' ""“"“°‘ room, house, building, or other place in which the violation is alleged to_ have occurred or is occ shall be s iiically described; and said warrant shall be placed in the hands ofptilie marshal, his deputy, or any town marshal or policeman in any town in which the room, house, building, or other place above referred to is located, commanding him to at once thoroughlti search said described room, house, same or uqms, building, or other place, and_ _ e appurtenances thereof; and if any °‘°· such be foimd, to take mto his possession and safely keep, to be produced as evidence when required, all alcoholic liquors and all the means of dispensing the same, also all the aranliernalia or part of the paraphernaha of a barroom or other alizoho `c liquor establishment, and any United States internal-revenue tax receipt or certificate fprE.l;‘;ammanufacture1;>r gale og aléoholic liqinor, lqifecégve for the erio o ecoveringt e ege o ense,an ort wi re ortall ihe facts to the district attorney or his deputy, and such alizoholic U°°°°"m°°°°' liquor or the means for dispensing same, or the para hemalia of a barroom or other alcoholic liquor establishment, or anylllnited States intemal-revenue tax receipt or certificate for the sale of alcoholic liquor, effective as aforesaid, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of the provisions of this Act. Pmmudl Sec. 18. That it shall not be necessary, in order to convict any per- ·~ii·i¤¤¤¤ ¤¢ viclsiiliig son, company, house, association, copsartnership, club, or cpliéporation, his, its, or their agents officers cler, or servants of man acturing, importing, or selli.n§ alcoholic liquors, to prove the actual manufacture, importing, s e, delivery of, or payment for any alcoholic liquors, but the evidence of having or keeping them in hand, stored or deposited, taking orders for, or offering to sell or barter, or ex- Gum, dmdptm chan `ng them for goods or merchandise, or giving them aw_ay, shall nmcienrbe su%cient to convict; nor shall it be necessariiin a warrant, information, or indictment to specify the particular nd of alcoholic liquor which is made the subject of a charge of violation_of_ this Act. Hm,m_m__uw,,0_, Sec. 19. That all houses, boats, boathouses, buildings, clubi-coms, mggcgiwwm w be and places of every description, including drug stores, where alcoholic ‘ liquors are manu acture, stored, sold, or_ vended, given away, or furnished contrary to law, including·thosein which c ubs, orders, or associations sell, barter, give away, distribute, or dispense intoxicating liquors to their members by arg means or device whatever, as provided in this Act, shall be held, then, and deemed common and mm W _ public nuisances. And any person who shall maintain, or shall aid maatmwm. " or abet, or knowingly be associated with others m inamtaining such common and public nuisance, shall  guilty of a misdemeanor and hmmm upon conviction thereof shall be subgect to the_ penalties prescribed ‘ in section one of this Act, and judgment shall be given that such house, boat, building, or other place, or any_ room therein, be abated or - closed u as a place for the sale or keeping of such liquor contrary to law, as Exe court may determine. _ _ _ mjumuomtoabaw Sec. 20. That any United States district attorney for the Territory of Alaska may maintain an action m equity m the name of the United States to abate and perpetually 8D]01!1 such a nuisance as hmhmtmm defined in the preceding section. _ No bond shall be_requ1red. An? latina person violating the terms of any mjunction granted m such procee - ings shall be punished for contemptaliily a fine of not more_ than $500 or by imprisonment in the Fed ] _ for not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, m the discretion of the court. mm md M M Sec. 21. That if a tenant of a building or tenement is convicted of vicuon enum:. using such premises or any part thereof or znamtainmga common nuisance, as hereinbefore defined, or of knowingly permitting such