New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-03
NOTICE.
OFFICE STATE REGISTRAR OF FoT
New Orleans. November 8. lS-

OFFICE STATE REGISTRAR yoTgRs,l
New Orleans November 3, 1910. )
FENHE ATTENTION ALI KEEPERS OF HO-
L tells, restaurants, barrooms, coffeehouseH,
groceries etc. is hereby directed to the prOvi si0ns
OF OF the following sections of An act to regulate
the conduct and to maintain the freedom and
pti7tv OF elections etc., approved March IL, 1870:
=. ShcTloN A. Be it further enacted, etc, That the
Supervisors OF Registration Commissioners Of
Election shall, on the day of election, close all
drinking saloons dram shops, groggeres places
where liquor is sold by the glass bottle situated
within radius of two miles of any poll or voting
place. And sad Supervisors Commissioners Of
Election shall have the power to call on aly Sheriff
constable or police officer to enforce tliis regular
ton. If such Sheriff, constable or police officer
shall refuse TO obey anyyorder issued under the
authority of this section the Commissioner or SUI
pervisor giving the order shall SUMMARY arrest
and Eiprison such Sheriff, constable or police
officer, such imprisonment not to extend heyond
the hour of closing the polls And such sheriff,
constable Police officer refusing to obey such
order shall De deemed guilty of misdemeano in
office, and, upon conviction thereof, shall he pun
ished by imprisonment for term not to exceed
SIX months, nor less than three months. and by a
fine OF not more than five hundred dollars ($500),
nor less than one handred dollars 5 1907.
SEC. A. BE 1t further enacted, etc., That the
Governor, any justice of the peace. alderman,
mayor. Judge or any State officer who may be
present at, or have knowledge of any drin king
loon, Dram shop, grosgedy or place where liquor
trary to the provisions of the foregoing section
within the limits therein prescribed, may, in writ
ing order any police officer constable to seize
any such liquors, or any carriages or vessels con-
tanning the same, or any booths or tents erected
within said limits for the purpose Of exposing such
Intoxicating liquors for sale.
SIC. as. Be it further enacted ETC., That the
constable or police officer to whom such order
shall be delivered, shall therenpon seize all such
liquor, carriages, vessels and the materials of any
such tent or booth, and hold and detain the same
until twenty-tOur hours after the close of the
election, then to be delivered demand to the
owner or the person from whom they were taken
on the payment of ten dollars for the safe keeping
OF said articles.
sHc. A. Be it further enacted, etc. That if these
effects be not thus demanded, the same shall be
sold at public auction by the police officer
stable making the seizure, and the proceeds Of
such sale, after deducting costs OF sale and safo
keeping shall be paid to the owner of the articles
sold, on the person from whom the same were
taken.
In accordance with the above recited sections,
all persons keeping places where liquor is sold by
the glass or bottle, in the parish of Orleans, arc
hereby notified to close their places of business
MONDAY, November :, 1870. at five o'clock A. M,
and to keep them closed until halt-past six o'clock
p. NJ, under penalty of the law, which viii be
rigidlX enforced. B. p. BLANCHARD
State Registrar Of Voters, and Supervisor OF Regis
tratOn, parish of Orleans. nos 1t