The Russellville Democrat., 1883-08-30
PROHIBITION.
Information That Has Been
 Called For.


 ladies of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Arkansas, g
 orm of petition to prohibit the sale l ,f liquors has been prepared under he best legal advice, and also 8 statement showing when such peti- | ions should be presented to the .onnty court from localities where it now prohibited, and the reason shy it should be presented at the Icime named in the statement. Perhaps there is no reading that would be more acceptable to the arge class who arc asking informa sion on the subject than those pa- yers. The following is the form of petition:
 To the County Court Of Coun- ty, Ark:
 The undersigned petitioners who are adult inhabitants, being males of twenty one years and females of eighteen years of age, residing with in three miles of here describe by name the school house, academy, college, university, or other institu- tion of learning, or church house, to which the petition relates, giving location of same with sufficient par ticularity to identify itl, in the county of--, state of Arkansas, desire that the sale, or giving away, of any vinous, spirituous, or .intoxi- eating liquors of any kind, or alco' hol or any compound or preparation thereof commonly called tonic bit ters, may be prohibited within three miles of said school house or church as the case may bel. herein before mentioned, and pray the county court to make an order accordingly as by law required.
 FORM OF AFFIDAVIT. |1 I-,, do solemnly swear that l 8m citizen of the county of-in the state of Arkansas. That the signatures to the foregoing petition addressed to the county court of said county praying said court to make an order for prohibiting the sale or giving away of spirituous or intoxicating liquors within the linn it's mentioned in said petition are genuine; that the male signers to said petition are of the age of. 2l years, and the females are of the age of IS years, and that all persons signing said petition are adult in- habitants. residing within the limits aforesaid.
 Subscribed and sworn to this---- day Of, 1883.
 Note. The proof contemplated by the act need not necessarily be by affidavit, but may be in writing or orally, as the c,urt may require.
 The instructions are as follows.
 "It is important that the petitions should be circalated and signed be- fore the October term of the county court aud presented to the court at that time with the requisite proof that the slgners constitute majori- " of the adult inhabitants residing within the designated limits. This action is rendered necessary, be- cause by an act of the last general assembly the existing orders of the county court made under the act of March 21, 1881, prohibiting the sale of liquors within three miles of school houses or churches, expire on the first day of January, 1884, and if the proper action is not taken to have the order renewed before that date there is danger that the liquor dealers will avail themselves of the privileges afforded them by the ex- piration of the present prohibitory orders and apply and procure li- cense to sell liquors, and should they do so no order to prohibit the sale could then "be put in force until such license should expire"
 Now any person, man or woman, may circulate petition, and all of adult age, white or black, may sign, and If the majority of inhabitants 1 living within three miles of the church or school house named in the petition sign it, and tho county court is satisfied there is majority, l then no more liquor can be sold within the circuit of the three niles named in the petition for the term of two years, or as long as the peti- tions are repeated. This law is democratic. It gives all citizens a chance to vote.
 MARY A. CORNELIUS, | President of the Women's Christ
 ian Temperance Unlon of Arkap-