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Keg Law

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TAKE NOTICE!


That by Section 2, of an Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved the 4th day of April, A. D. 1865, it is declared unlawful for any person, other than the lawful owner, to use, traffic, or purchase, sell, dispose of, detain, convert, mutilate or destroy, or willfully or unreasonably refuse to return or deliver to the owner, any barrel, cask or keg used by him in the manufacture and sale of Malt Liquors; or to remove, cut off, deface or obliterate such brands or stamps; and any person so offending shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, to be punished, of the first offense by a fine of Ten Dollars ($10), for each and every such barrel, cask or keg so used, disposed of, detained, converted, mutilated or destroyed, or not so returned of delivered, and by a fine of Twenty Dollars ($20), and by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than one nor more than three months for each and every subsequent offense.  Therefore, Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned will prosecute to the full extent of said Act of Assembly, and and all persons, who, in violation thereof, shall use, purchase, sell, dispose of , detain, convert, mutilate of destroy, or refuse to return or deliver to him or his agents of drivers, any barrel, cask or keg, used by him in the manufacture or sale of Malt Liquors, he having branded or stamped his name 
"YUENGLING"
or "D.G. YUENGLING" 
on both heads of each and every barrel, cask or keg.

D. G. YUENGLING.

Eagle Brewery, POTTSVILLE
September 25th, 1865