(1.) The seventh section of the principal Act shall be read as if for the words ''constable or peace officer acting within such parish, township, or place," there were substituted the words " the superintendent of police of the district," and the notice required by tlat section to be given to any overseer or constable may be served by a registered letter through the post :

(2.) Where a certificate is now required to be signed by a majority of justices, it shall be sufficient if, instead of such signature, the concurrence of such majority be signified by means of an impression firom an official seal or stamp, in such form as the justices may direct, affixed in the presence of the justices in sessions assembled, and verified in the case of each certificate by the signature of their clerk. Any seal purporting to be so affixed and verified shall be received in evidence without further proof; and if any unauthorised person imitate or affix an impression of such seal on any certificate or imitation of a certificate, or knowingly use a certificate or imitation of a certificate falsely purporting to be sealed in pursuance of this section, he shall be guilty of forgery :

(3.) For every certificate granted by way of renewal under the principal Act or this Act, there shall be payable to the clerk of the justices the sum of four shillings for all matters to be done by such clerk, and one shilling for the constable or officer for service of notices; and if any clerk of justices demand or receive any greater or further fee or payment in respect of any such renewal, whether for himself or for any other officer or person, he shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to a penalty of five pounds:

(4.) It shall be in the discretion of the justices to whom an application for a transfer is made, either to allow or refuse the application, or to adjourn the consideration thereof:

(5.) The proviso of the fifth section of the principal Act and the ninth section of the principal Act shall be repealed, and, subject to the provisions of this section, all the provisions of the Act of the ninth year of George the Fourth, chapter sixty-one, and Acts amending the same, relating to the time for which justices' licences are to be in force, and relating to the fees payable for such licences, and relating to the transfer, removal, and transmission of such licences, and the grant of licences upon assignment, death, change of occupancy, or other contingency, and relating to copies of such licences, and relating to grants or transfers of such licences without the attendance of an applicant wlio is hindered by sickness, infirmity, or other reasonable cause, shill have efifect with regard to certificates granted or to be granted imder the principal Act and this Act.

Where by the principal Act, or any other Act or Acts, a person licensed to retail beer, cider, or wine, not to be consumed on the premises, is subject to any penalty or forfeiture for taking, or for authorising or suffering to be taken, any beer, cider, or wine out of such premises for the purpose of being for bis benefit or profit drunk or consumed on or in other premises or places with intent to evade the provisions of any Act, or the conditions of his licence, he shall be subject to the like penalties and forfeitures for taking, or authorising or suffering to be taken, any beer, cider, or wine out of his premises for the purpose of being for his benefit or profit drunk or consumed on or in any place, whether enclosed or not, and whether or not a public thoroughfare, with intent to evade the provisions of any such Act or the conditions of his licence. The fifteenth section of the principal Act shall be read as if after the word " house " there were inserted the words " by any person other than a servant or inmate of such house." The sixteenth section of the principal Act shall be read as if for the words " convicted of keeping his house open," there were substituted the words " convicted of opening or of keeping open his house"

Any constable or officer of police who finds any person present in a house licensed for the sale of any exciseable or distilled or fermented liquor at a time when such house is by law required to be closed, may demand the name and address of such person ; and if any such person when so required refuse to give his name and address, or give a false name or address, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings ; and any person who when so required refuses or neglects to give his name or address, may be apprehended by such constable or officer, and detained until he can be carried before a justice of the peace.

The nineteenth section of the principal Act shall extend to licences granted by way of renewal from time to time of, licences in force on the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, whether such licences continue to be held by the same person or have been or may be transferred to any other person or persons.

The second and third provisoes of the said nineteenth section of the principal Act shall be read as if production of the certificate and record of convictions on the certificate were therein referred to instead of production of the licence and record of convictions on the licence, and as if for the expressions "two justices" and "justices " respectively, there were substituted the words "justice or justices."

Where a conviction is recorded on a certificate, in pursuance of the principal Act as amended by this Act, the clerk to the convicting justices shall also make and keep a record of such conviction, and of the fact that it has been recorded on the certificate.

Where a conviction of any person has, before the passing of this Act, been recorded on a licence in pursuance of the principal Act, or on a certificate in pursuance of this Act, the justices to whom such person applies for a renewal of his certificate shall cause such conviction to be recorded on the renewed certificate. Any record of a conviction upon a licence or certificate, and also any copy of a record of a conviction made or kept by a clerk to the convicting justices, if such copy purport to be signed by the derk by whom the record was made or is kept, shall for all purposes be sufficient evidence of such conviction, and of the fatct that it was recorded on the licence or certificate.

Where an information on oath is made before any justice of the peace that there is reasonable ground for believing that any fermented, distilled, or exciseable liquors or sweets are being unlawfully sold or kept for sale at any premises or place for the retail whereat of fermented, distilled, or exciseable liquors or sweets no licence is in force, such justice may in his discretion grant a warrant imder his hand to any superintendent, inspector, sergeant, or other ofticer or officers of police, by virtue whereof it shall be lawful for the officer or officers named in the warrant at any time or times within one month from the date thereof to enter, and if need be by force, the premises or place named in the warrant, and every part thereof, and to search for and seize any fermented, distilled, or exciseable liquors or sweets there found which there is reasonable ground to suppose are in such premises or place for the purpose of unlawful sale at such or any other premifies or place ; and if any person, by himself or by any other person acting by or with his direction, permission, or consent, refuse or neglect to admit to any part of any such premises or place any officer or person demanding admittance in pursuance of the provisions of this section, he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

Any liquor seized in pursuance of the provisions of this section shall be sold in such manner as two justices in petty sessions may direct, and the proceeds shall be applied in the same manner as penalties summarily imposed by the same justices for sale without a licence might be applied.