The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-02-27
PROHIBITION AND HIGH LICENSE
Two Separate Laws Recommended by the
Auti-Liquor Men of Cecil.

Two Separate Laws Recommended by the
Auti-Liquor Men of Cecil.
The committee of eighteen appointed
by the chairman of the Temperance Con-
vention held here on Saturday, February
49, to draft high license and a local
option law for the approval of the people,
met in Odd Fellows hall, on Tuesday
last. The committee was present in full.
Mr.. ii. H. Brady was chosen chairman,
aud George A. Blake secretary. Drafts
of the two bills were called for and were
read by Messrs. John 5. Writ and Geo
A. Blake. The committee then sepa-
rated to further perfect and adopt the
bills. 1t was composed of nine prohibit
tionists and nine high-license men. The
two committees appointed as sub COM
mitteemen Messrs Blake and Writ en-
towering them to perfect the TWO bills
as drafted and present them to the Leg
islature, also authorizing them to ask
that both laws be voted for at the cleo
ton in November next, the one chosen
to go into effect January l, 1887.
In substance the draft of the high
license law is as follows: In order to get
a license as hotel the premises will have
to contain five bed chambers and stabling
for six horses in addition to the require
ments of the resident FANNY. An appli-
G., Ia,
companied by a description of premises
and written certificate signed by ten
freeholders, who are to take oath that
they are possessed of property to the val
uation of 81 900 The special license to
hotel keepers will be 500, which, with
the regular state and government tax,
will make the hotel rate in Cecil county
range from $lG0 to 3305. The special
license OH saloons outside of hotels will
be $3.50. This with other taxes will make
the whole 1928. The law relative to the
sale of spirituous liquors by druggists
and physicians is the same as that con-
tanned in the present local option law.
No persons holding licenses are to allow
minors to frequent saloons or to sell any
liquor to them directly or indirectly, or
give it away to them on or off the prem
Uses. Penalty of from 5000 to $500 or
imprisonment of from 80 days to mouths
in the county Jail for violation of the
clause. The punishment for selling
liquor without license will be from
5000 to $500, or imprisonment of not less
than six months or more chan one year
in the House of Correction. A fine of
S25 will be imposed for selling liquor to
one already drunk, the vender to pay
damages done by purchaser In all cases
of offense by parties holding license, the
license to be suspended and not to be
granted again when once violated. The
law also imposes fines for selling liquor
on election day and Sunday, or between
| the hours of IL midnight and 6 a. NJ The
| local option bill stands about the same
as the present law, with the following
exceptions and additions: What are call
ed ''drummers" are prohibited from so
Letting the purchase of liquor in Cecil
county. The sale of cider, tonic beer,
lager beer, or any article used or sold as
a beverage, in the composition of which
whisky, brandy, highwine, alcohol or
any spirituous or fermentcd liquor shall
be au ingredient, is forbid. But the sale
of pure apple cider in quantities of not
less than one gallon at a time by manu-
facturers of apple cider, or by persons
who have grown the apples from which
the cider sold by them has been made, is
allowed. A violation of the law will be
punished by fine of not less than $50