Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-03-13
WHISKY MUST 90.
So Gays hsxsasas Legislature, and 1t. word
Is Law.
Main Points CT ths B.lI.Passsd and Signed
By the Governor.

recent session, the most stringent law,
looking to the enforcement of the pro-
hibitOTy amendment, that has yet APP
peared on the statute books. For the
convenience Of those Interested in the
traffic, We make n perfect synopsis of
the new lax.
Tie bill is amendatory OF the tenn
pcrance law cf 1851 and
Section provides that 1t shall be un-
lawful for any person 10 sell malt,
spirituous or intoxicating liquors with
out having a druggists permit from the
probate Judge; and the judge can in
his discretion grant such permit though
he Is not compelled 10. But even before
the permit can be granted Il freehold
ers Of the township OF city must petition
for the same, and when the permit is
granted it is made . matter of record.
Section > allows any physician law
fully and regularly engaged in practice
TO prescribe liquor i'm case OF actual
need; but should he prescribe intOxicat-
ing liquors eXceps in cases of actual
need, he is liable to fine not less than
500 and Imprisonment in Jail from 10
to % day.
Section allows druggists to sell on
the written prescription of physicians as
above; and also allows the druggist to
sell for mechanical or scientific purpos-
IS when he is satisfied that il is not TO
be used as a beverage or to give away.
The statement required of applicants
FOR liquor at the end OF every thirty
days are to be fled in tile Office of the
probate judge, for public inspection,
and kept by him for two years. Every
such druggist shall keep book, where
I'm shall be recorded all sales of intOxi-
eating liquors made by him, showing
the name and residence of the purchas-
er. the kind and quantity of the liquor
sold, the purpose for which 1t was sold,
the date of each sale, and If upon pre-
scriptiOn. the name OF the physician
making the same. Such record and pre-
scriptions shall be open to the examin-
alton of the public at all reasonable
| times during business hours.
Section imposes n penalty of not
less than 500 nor more than $500 and
imprisonment i'm the county Jail from
30 to so days on any person violating
the provisions Of this act.
Section refers to the manufacture OF
intoxicating liquors.
Section draws the lines still closer
around the persons authorized to sell;
and if he sells to any person under the
influence of liquor; or who is in tie
habit Of becoming intoxicated, or who
will allow liquor drank on his premises
then the druggist is liable to the fines
| above mentioned, and shall forfeit his
permit to sell for five years to come.
Section says it sball be the duty OF
sheriifs. deputy sheriffs, constablGs
marshals, police judges, and police Off
GERS of any city or town, having notice
or knowledge of any violations o. tho
provisions Of this act, to notify the
county attorney of the fact of such vic
lation. and TO furnish him the names oil
any witnesses within his knowledge by
whom such violation can be proven. Il
any such officer shall tail To- cOmpl!
with the provisions Of this section, III
shall upon conviction be fined in an,
sum not less than one hundred nor nor
than five hundred dollars, and such con
yiction shall be forfeiture Of the ofilc
held by any such person; and the cOur
before whom such CONVICTION is ha'
shall, in addition to the imposition o
the fine aforesaid, order and ad;udg
the forfeiture OF his said Office.
Section is the worst i'm the Who'll
lot and is the one which Gov. Martii
objected To when he approved the bill
Il provides: IL the county attOrne
of any county shall be notified by an of
iicer or other persons Of this act, il shal
be his duty forthwith 10 diligently in
quire into the facts of such violation
aud FOR such purpose he is hereby an
thorized and required TO issue his sub
pGna for such person or persons rs n
may have reason to believe have any III
formation or knowledge of such viola
ton, to appear before him at n tim
and place designated i'm such subpoena
then and there to testify concerning an
violation Of this act; said subpoena sha
be directed TO the sheriff or any consta
BILE OF the county, and shah be serve
and returned TO such county attOrne
i'm the same manner as subpGnas ar
, served and returned in criminal case.
Each witness shall be sworn by til
county attorney TO testify the truth, tn
: whole truth, aud nothing but the trutl
and true answers make to all question
, propounded TO him by such county al
, torney todching any violations of tn
provisions of this act, or the act {
which this is amendatory. The test
, mony of every such witness shall be rt
ducetto writing and signed by sue
witnesses, as inthe taking of deposi
tions in civil cases. For all purpose
in this section the county attorney
hereby authorized and empowered t
administer oaths or affirmatiOns to a
witnesses, and shall have power {
punish any witness for contempt 70
J or an account OF any disobedience Of
E subpoena, a refusal to be sworn or al
I swer as a witness, or to sign his test
mOny, and may compel the attendanC
a of witnesses by attachment in the sam
; manner and with like effect as provide
@ in the code Of civil procedure. If II
$ testimony so taken shall disclose Il
fact that an oGense has been commi
p ted against any of the. provisions {
> this act, the county attorney sha
; forthwith Gle such statement, togeth'
: with his complaint or informatio
a against the person having committe
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