The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-04-26
REMARKABLE TEMPERANCE LAW.

REMARKABLE TEMPERANCE LAW.
stringent bill relating to intoxicating drinks has
been passed blythe Wisconsin Legislature consist.
ing oil ten sections. 1t requires all person who
would vend or retail "spirtuous liquors" to give
oond to the town authorities, with three sureties
IN $IooO, "conditionedsto pay all damages the
community or individuals may sustain by rea.
son Oh such traffic; to support all paupers, wild.
ows and orphans; pay the expenses of all civil
and criminal prosecutions made. prowiug out Of
or justly attributable to such traffic" And Il
is made the duty OF the officer holding the bond
to deliver it to "any person who NAV claim to
be injured by said traffic" We uuote the 20.
naming provisions entire:
SEC. 4. 1t shall be lawful for anv married
woman to institute in her own name. suit nm
any such bond, for all damages sustained nv her
sen OF children on account of such traffic: and
Tue money when collected shall be paid over to
ner' lor tne use OF herself and children.
okc' Q, NO suits Tor liquor bills shall be en-.
tertalned by any of the courts of this state and
whenever it shall be made to appear to anv conrt
whlch suit may be pending, on promissorv
no'e, 'nat such note was given in whole or in part
lor hquor bills, such court shall Immediately dis
miss such suit at the costs the plaintiff
DEC o. On the trial OF any suit under the
provisions OF this act, the cause or foundation of
winch shall be the act OF an individual under The
lhnuence oil liquor, il shall be only necessary in
oiuer 70 sustain tue action, to prove that the
principal IN the bond sold or gave liquor TO The
person $50 intoxicated or in liquor) whose acts
are complained OF, on the day previous to the
commission OF the offence
SEC T. whenever person shall become a
county, city, or village charge by reason OF in
temperance, suit may be instituted by the nro
per authorities, on the bond of any person who
may have been in the habit OF selling or giving
liquor to such person or pauper so becoming a
public charge
SEC. 8. Any person against whom iudg-
ment may be obtained. under the provisions OF
TINS act shall be entitled TO maintain suit to
comPel contribution towards paying the iudg
ment against him, against all persons engaged in
such trafflc in such county, CITY, town or village
who may have sold or given liquor 10 such per-
son committing an offence, or becoming public
charge.
SEC. 9. Any person who shall vend or re.
tan. or Tor the purpose OF avoiding the provisions
OF TINS act, give away spiIitoqs liquors without
hrst giving the bond required by the first section
OF this act, shall be deemed guilty of misde.
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
hnec IN sum OF lot less than fifty, nor more than
hve hundred dollars, and be imprisoned IN the
county jill not less than ten days, nor more than
SIX months, and shall be liable in all respects TO
the public, and to individuals, the same as he
would have been had he given the bond required
in the FIRST section OF this act
This remarkable expression OF public opjnion
in Wisconsin on the subject OF ssspirituous lilo.
uors, passed the Senate By vote oil 10 10 3. and
the Assembly % to 81 1t goes some steps be-
yond any legislation on the subject in the coun.
Try.