Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-06-26
@Murtrie, Malone, PACKER, Robertson,
ssSanderson, and Slifer.-11

"bu1g, Myers, Sinner, and Walker, SPeak
"er-15.
$50 the question was determined in the
Affirmative" See Senate Journal, of 1885,
Vol. l, p. Ga.
Such is GENERAL WM. F. PACKER 4
record in the Senate of 1852, aud such are
his votes upon the subject of the prohibi
tory liquor law which passed the Senate
that year, as proved by the Journal Of the
Senate, which is the only authorized record
of proceedings. Aud Jet his p,rtlzar
friends, and the unp,incipled press which
supports him for Governor, are mean enough
and reckless enongh, to deny that he is OF
ever was in favor Of prohibition, and round
" abuse all who asssrt that he voted for
prohihitory liquor laws. We say again, we
have these Senate Journals in our ofhce,
aud can show them, day, and date, and
| page, to any man who wishes to see them,
or who desires to know the whole truth on
| this subject. And we will here remark that
| not only did Ganl. Packer make speeches
| in the Senate in favor of the bill, and vote
as here proved, but according to the we'll
remembered logic of the Bedford Gazette,
he gaze The casting cote on the final passage
of this Roastrous Maine Liquor Lar.
For on looking at the final vote, it will be
observed the bill passed BY II yeas to Is
nays. Consequently if Genl. Packer had
voted nay, the bill would have been defeat
ed on its final passage, by tie vote, and
evidently bis vote for the bill was what sa-
ved it.
But the same recklessness and disregard
of the truth which has heretofore denied
that Packer vas prohibitionist, may also
deny that the bill which passed the Senate
in 1852 was a prohibitory Maine Law.
The bill was made up of fifteen sections,
and is therefore too long for publication
entire, but in order that all doubts may be
removed on this point, and all mouths stop
ped, we will give our readers some extracts
from the bill as specimens. As before sta
ted, it was entitled, ".4a .fct to prohibit
the manufacture and sale Of Intoxicating
liquors" And to demonstrate that the bill
itself corresponded with the title, We pub
lisa the first three sections of it, as follows:
SEC. /. Be IL enacted, &C. That no person
shall be allowed at any time, 10 manufacture, or
sell, by himself, his clerk, servant, or agent,
directly or indirectly, any Intoxicating liquors.
whether the same be spirituous, vinous, or
malt, or a mixture of the same or any of them,
or any other liquor possessing gtaINife'i'''' gtIs.
SEC. 2. he judges of the court Of Qaarter
Sessions and the County Commissioners, on
the first Monday of July, annually, or as soon
thereafter as may be convenient, may appoint
suitable persons of well-known, honest, tenn
peTate and sober habits, to buy, or manufac-
ture aud sell at some convenient point in such
OF the Townships, boroughs, and cities, within
the county, as they may deem expeiient and
proper, trines and other liquors, for sGcTamentqt,
medicinal, mechanical aud ortisticqi purposes,
Such person shall he appointed for the term Of
one year, but may be removed at any time at
the pleasure Of said judges and commissioners
for violating this act.
SEC 3. That each person appointed to sell
liquors as aforesaid, shall keep an accurate ac-
count in writing of all the liquor bought or
manufactured by him, specifying the quaHtity
of each kind purchased or manufactured, the
price of that purchased, the name of the person
from whom it was purchased, and the date of
the purchase, the quantity of each kind sold,
and the daIe Of the sale, its price, the name,
residence, and occupation of the person to
| whom it was sold, and the purpose for which it
was purchased by him; and he shall cause the
person TO icho1n the sale is made to sign the said
| specification al the cad thereof he shall semi
| annually, il required, on a day and at place
| to be appointed by said judges aud cemmis-
| soners, whereof public notice shall be given in
| one or more newspapers published in the coun-
| ty, exhibit upon his oath or solemn affir matioD
| the book or books in which said account and
/ specification are kept, to the said Judges and
! commissioners, together with balance sheet
! showing the quantity of each kind OF liquor
| bought and sold by him during the period
which has elapsed since his last exhibit, aud the
| aggregate cost and proceeds thereof; and if it
shall appear to the said judges and commits
sioners that the profits Of said business amount
| to more than what would BIZ fair and Just
| compensation for transacting the same. they
| shall fix the amount TO be retained by him for
| such compensation, and shall requile him To
pay the surplus to the Treasurer of the county
for the use Of the Comm nweallh.
See. 4 Provides for the giving of GER
ti6cate Of appointment to the person au-
thorized to sell, upon bis giving bond with
at least two sureties iu the PENAL sum oI
Eve hundred dollars, conditioned tor hit
faithful observance of the iaw,&c.
Sec. 5. Imposes fines of from thirty tC
two hundred dollars, & costs, for violation:
Of the act together with srndry terms O
Imprisonment of not less than t,oo, nor NOR
than Sar months.
Such are the first three sections of thi
beautiful liquor law in fall, and the sub
stance of the fourth and fifth; aud we doub
not they are more than sufficient to satisf
all that more ultra, radical, out aud on
prohibitory law was never passed in tb,
State of Maine or anywhere else. 1t no
only PROHIBITS the sal. under severe penal
ties, of all sorts of liquors, and by ever
\ quantity great or small, except ''for sacra
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