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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1827

3 stories in Sydney's papers

Spirits Without a License

The Australian · Wednesday 27 June 1827 · page 3

The keeper of the market, house was summoned on Saturday last before the Bench of Magistrates, for selling spirits without a license. The defendant admitted the fact of selling the spirits to the informer, but urged that the market house…

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The Licensing System

The Australian · Friday 20 July 1827 · page 4

A writer in the Edinburgh Review, in an article on the Licensing System, humorously illustrates the absurdity of allowing the men who drink Madeira and claret to be the supreme directors of the…

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Latest British Extracts. Victuallers' License Bill

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1827 · page 3

The following are sime of the principal heads of the Bill as amended by the Committee, to regulate the granting of licenses to keepers of inns, ale-houses, and victualling…

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