Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-18
LICENSES FOR SALOONS.
A New Set of Regulations Adopted by
the Commissioner.

A New Set of Regulations Adopted by
the Commissioners.
MATTERS THAT WILL BE CONSIDERED II ACTING
UPON APPLIcATIoSs-THEo OBJECTIONS OF cITI-
zESs-sALooSs IN RESIDENCE sEcTIoNs-PKR-
SONS WHO SEED NOT APPLY.
The District Commissioners have adopted
new regulations governing applications for and
the issuing of liquor licenses. as follows:
First. Livery person intending to apply for q
license must pay to the assessor the fee re-
CURED for such license and file with that OH
Ger at least ten days before the first day Of
November Of each year petition setting forth
the name and residence of the applicant, the
place where such license is desired, the name
of the owner of the premises; that the place
TO be licensed is necessary for the accommoda-
ton of the public; that the applicant is
the only person pecuniarily interested in the
business asked to be licensed, and whether
the applicant has had a license during the pre-
cedlng license year, or any part OF 1t, which
for any cause has been suspended or revoked;
that neither the applicant, nor any person for
him. has given promised to any Of the
signers of the written permission required by
the third paragraph hereof any reward or COM
pensatiOn of any kind or value for such sigma
ture, and that the applicant is now and intends
the District of Columbia. This petition shall
be subscribed and sworn to by the petitioner.
Second. That the approval of applications
for license for the sale OF spirituous liquors
must precede the opening Of places where such
liquors are sold.
Third That with every application for license
there must be presented the written permission
of the majority of the owners of real estate
and the majority of the residents keeping house
on the side of the square where il is desired
to locate such business. and on the side Of the
square opposite the same, and If a corner house
such signers will be required in all cases on
both streets. (The term residents keeping
house" does not include boarders, persons
renting rooms or tenants of hats). All signers
to such applications must be made in ink, and
agents signing must name their principals. The
fact OF such ownership of real estate and of
the required residence shall be certified by
the assessor of the District of Columbia. and
the genuineness of the signatures Of both
property owners and residents shall be ascer-
tanned and certified by the lieutenant of the
police precinct which embraces such proposed
location.
PERSONS WHO NEED NOT APPLY.
Fourth. That licenses will not be granted to
the following classes of persons or places:
a. ANY person, building or place within four
hundred feet of public school house owned
or occupied by the District of Columbia. meas
ured from the principal entrance of each by
the ordinary course of travel between such
place and such school house.
D. To any person convicted, or pending
prosecution ID court, for selling or giving liquor
during the preceding license year to a soldier
or volunteer, to a minor, to any confirmed
drunkard or to any intoxicated person, or to
any premises where gambling has been allowed,
or which are or have been used as a bawdy
house during said year.
c. To any person convicted or pending pros
ecutlon TOR violation OF the liquor-license law or
regulations during the preceding license year.
with selling liquor on Sunday or after midnight
and prior to O'Clock am, with selling
liquor without license. and the application OF
no such person Will be considered
q. To any person keeping place where idle
noisy, dIsorderly or suspicious characters con-
SreSate; TO woman; to any person who had
not a retail license the preceding year. until
the number on any space between any two
streets shall be reduced to one. excepting on
business streets or avenues. business streets
Tor the purpose of this regulation. shall be held
TO be streets or avenues or portions of streets
or avenues between two streets crossing the
same which are principally occupied for pur-
poses of business.
c. To all grocery and provision stores. and
In all such cases the fact that such store is not
completely separated from the place where
liquor Is sold and entered by a separate and
distinct entrance will be sufficient ground for
the denial OF the license.
T. In all cases of application for wholesale
licenses 1t must be shown satisfactorily that
the places where II Is intended to carry on such
business are properly arranged for the sale OF
splrituouS liquors as merchandise and that the
party making application has not and does not
intend TO sell liquors to be drunk upon the
premises A conviction of a wholesale dealer
for selling Intoxicating liquors to be drunk on
the premises will be sufficient cause for reyok-
Ing the license.
ExAMINa PREMISES.
g. All applicants for license shall allow the
duly authorized agents or officers OF the Com
missioners full opportunity to examine the
premises for which license is asked. A re-
fusal to do so shall be deemed sufficient cause
to reject the application or to annul the
license II already granted and all licensees are
required to frame their license and place the
same IN his or her chief place Of business so
that 1t shall be conspicuous and easily read, and
neglect OF this requirement will be sufficient
Cause 10 annul said license
n. When an application for a liquor license
has been rejected by the Commissioners the
same will not be reconsidered upon the same
showing nor upon purely cumulative evidence
To obtain such reconsideration a written mo-
ZION must be filed with the secretary of the
board OF Commissioners, clearly setting forth
the new and independent facts or reasons upon
which review Is asked with all the evidence
IN support thereof, and If such license is again
REJECTED upon such rehearing the applicant
VIII be required, If he desires q still further
hearing, to lie new application.
Firth. License will not be granted where il
snail appear 10 the Commissioners that the
place applied for is in a neighborhood occu-
pied largely by private residences and the en-
trance to which is within 80 feet of the entrance
To private residence the owner or lessee OF
which shall file with the Commissioners a pro-
test against such license, or where there are. in
the opinion OF the Commissioners, more such
places than the accommodation of the public
warrants, and the Commissioners reserve the
night TO limit the number OF saloons in any To-
calty.
Sixth. License will not be granted to any per-
son employed IN any capacity under the bis
uici government or to any person who by rea-
son OF any other employment or business, will
De absent from the licensed place during BUSH
ness hours, or to any person not an actual resi-
dent OF the District Of Columbia.
DIRECTIONS By CITIZENS
Seventh. The Commissioners will consider
any valid objections made by citizens to any
application, provided such objections are
specific in their character; that is, against a
particular applicant and bear the signatures of
the parties making the same.
Eighth. Licenses to sell intoxicating liouors
by retail in that portion Of the District OF Co.
nmbia outside OF the cities of Washington and
Georgetown will not be granted TO any person
whose place of business is within one thousand
feet OF another place licensed for the same bust
ness, excepting In cases where four-ffths of the
heads OF families residing in said portion of
SAID District within one mile Of the premises
Tor which such license is asked shall petition