In an act approved on March 29, 1918, the legislature made it unlawful for anyone "to buy, bargain, sell, loan, have in possession, or to operate or aid, abet, or encourage in the operation, or to harbor a person in the possession or in the operation of an illicit or 'moonshine' still." Persons violating this act for the first time were to be fined not less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned for up to six months. Second offenders were to be imprisoned not less than one or more than five years. Persons arresting or causing the arrest of persons in violation of this act shall be entitled to a reward of fifty dollars for each person so convicted.
Raid on a moonshine still in Boyd County, ca. 1928. Note the row of bottles at the mouth of the rock shelter. Ohio River Portrait Collection contributed by Harry Boone Nicholson Sr. Kentucky Historical Society Collections.
