Spirits (Ireland) Act, 1854

Persons applying for excise licences to retail spirits, &c. shall give notice to constabulary officers, &c.

9. . . . every person who shall apply for a certificate to obtain an excise licence under or by the authority of any Act or Acts for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, ale, cider, or perry by retail in Ireland, to be drank or consumed on the premises or elsewhere, shall twenty-one days at least before the quarter sessions at which such application is intended to be made give notice in writing to the sub-inspector of the district in which he resides, or in his absence to the head constable, or if in the metropolitan Dublin police district to the superintendent of police of the division in which such person resides, stating the intention of such person to make such application, and setting forth his place of residence, the situation and place of the house where such wines, spirits, beer, ale, cider, or perry are to be sold, and the names and places of abode of the persons whom such person requiring such certificate proposes as sureties.