Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-06
PROPOSED TEMPERANCE LrarnArrov.
CHARLES ANDTEAD.

law no hCflt1o Aot tno sale OF IntOXlca-
ting beverages, either by the drink OF
by the bottle, shall he issued except on
the terms and conditions following
l. The tax on every license shall be
5000 per annum.
III. The retailing Of intoxicants shall
not be licensed outside Of the corporate
limits OF the county-seGt, or in accord
ance with the twelfth section Of this act
III. Distiilers and Wholesale dealers
shall not sell in less quantities than the
barrel Of thirty gallons.
". Keepers of hotels OF OF simmer
resorts OF respectable character may be
licensed to sell bottled wines and malt
liquors to their guests, and the tax on
such a license shall be fifty dollars per
season.
Y. At every biennial election OF men,
bers of the Legislature voters may write
the word license on the ballots which
they cast for delegates, and if not more
than one third Of the ballots have the
word license written on them no license
shall be granted within the limits Of that
county during two years thereafter ; but
if more than ono third OF the ballots ct
any biennial election shall have the word
license written on them the county Judge
shall use his own discretion whether 10
/ grant licenses or not
VI. In every county in Whirh license
obtains there shall be appointed by the
board OF county commissioners lat a
salary TO he fixed by them and 10 DO
paid ont of the tax Oh licenses) an officer
To be known as the Temperance commits
sioner of that county.
VII. The temperance commissioner OF
each county shsll be a bonded officer,
and bis duties shall be
!. TO furnish all saloons in which in
/ toxicating liquors are sold Except hotels,
where only bottled wines and ales are
sold to guests with aperlured lock
boxes, all Of one pattern, and opened
/ with q single key, which key shall be
kept by the county treasurer
.. TO cause to be printed a sufficient
number Of small tickets reading thus:
Rodsoms6le by the County Treasury at one
/ hail Of fare value.
Temperance Commissioner.
3. To sell these tickets at their face
value 10 such applicants as are not
addicted to iutemperance.
4. To keep an account OF all moneys
received and discussed by him.
VIII. Every saloon-keeper and his
/ bar-tenders shall take oath before the
/ Temperance commissioner that they
will not cell intoxicating liquors for any
compensation other than the tickets
signed by the temperance commissioner,
aud that they will see that purchasers
/ promptly put the tickets into the afore-
/ said lock-bOxcs, and any violation OF tins
/ oath shall be punished as selling liquor
without license, ana the violator of the
oath shall also be liable to indictment for
perjury.
IS. Every Saturday morning the
county treasurer shall open the lock
/ boxes, redeem their contents at half face
vaue, return the tickets TO the tempe
rance commissioner, and receive from
/ him their full face-vaue. Then he shall
enter upon his books to the credit OF the
Temperance fund - one half Of the
amount so received from the temperance
commissioner.
Y. This temperance fund shall be
drawn upon by warrant from the county
I Judge for the following purposes
I. To pay the expenses OF the tempe
rance commissioners Office.
,. To compensate the county treasurer
for the additional labor imposed upon
him by this act, nj rate fixed by the
Board Of County Commissioners.
3. 10 employ detectives when neces
garv to discover suspected violations OF
the laws regarding the liquor trafic.
4. 10 pay tie expenses of prosecu'
{ lions for the violation of said laws
3. To pay the expenses Of criminal
trials when the crime has been the result
Of drink.
Is. 10 pay the iailer 20 cents a day foy
the board Of every prisoner incarcerated
for drunkenness.
z. TO pay the expenses Of any citizen
Of the county WHO may by order of the
county Judge be sent to an inetrlato
asyium.
s. 70 pay for the care of lunatics
whose insanity has been occasioned by
drink.
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and other dependents OF persons who
have died from intemperanco or have
lost thoir lives in drunken quarrels on
from accidents due to iutoXicatlon.
10. To afford timely relief to families
whose natural protectors are incapaci-
tated 10y incompetence.
IL. Toincresse the pubic-school funds
of the county whenever, after discharGinp
the preceding obligations, any considcra
/ bic balance remains ON hand.
NJ. The temperance fund shall con
sist. not only Of half the receipts from
the sale Of liquor tickets, but also OF all
the receipts from liquor licenses, both
wholesale and retail, and also Of all
taxes on property invested IN disiillenes
and breweries and all fnes for drunken
ness and violation Of the liquor laws.
MI. If IN any county there IS a town
Of larger population than the county
seat the Office OF the temperance com
missioner shall be in that town, and
liquor shall not be sold at the county
seat
Mi. The clerks Of hotels in any town
where hQuor-hcenses are granted may
purchase tickets from the temperance
/ commissioner aud keep them on hand foI
1 the convenience of the travelling public
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