Spirits (Ireland) Act, 1854

Excise officers not to grant a renewal of licences without certificates of justices as to good character of persons licensed.

11. It shall not be lawful for any officer of excise in Ireland to grant a renewal of any such licence as aforesaid to any person applying for such renewal at and for the same house as shall have been licensed in the year last immediately preceding, and whose licence shall not have been withdrawn or annulled, without such person producing a certificate, signed by two or more justices of the peace presiding at the petty sessions of the district in which such person resides, or if in the Dublin metropolitan police district by a divisional justice of the district in which such person resides, to the good character of such person, and to the peaceable and orderly manner in which such house had been conducted in the past year.