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Production of licence not necessary on proceedings.
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20. In any proceeding to recover a penalty against any person charged as being licensed to sell beer, cider, or spirits, it shall not be necessary to call for or require the production of the licence; and the notice by said Act directed to be served on the clerk of the peace, or evidence of his having been, at the time at which the offence charged against him was committed, acting as the owner of a licensed house, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact of his being licensed, unless he shall prove that he was not duly licensed; and if he shall on the hearing of any such complaint prove that he was not duly licensed at the time at which the sale complained of was made, it shall be lawful for the justices before whom such proof may be made to convict him of having made such sale without being duly licensed.
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