Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-21
The Stauntcn Excise Board Appointed.

The State Excise Board at Richmond
On Wednesday last, appointed the following
Excise Board for Staunton-James Bum
gardner, JOS. B. Woodward aId VIM. f.
Summerson. The members OF the Board
receive IS per Gay for every day Of active
service, which must not exceed fifty days
in any one year. We give below the full
text OF the new law
WHEREAS there exists in the cities of the
Commonwealth growing dissatisfaction with
the system under Which licenses for the sale
of ardent spirits are granted; and whereas the
legislature recognizes the Justice of the urgent
and imperative demand growing out of this
dissatisfaction, for change i'll the present
system, and is disposed to surround the grant
ing of these licenses in large municipal cor
porations with all the safeguards suggested
by an enlightened and progressive policy,
therefore:
l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Virginia, that the auditor of public ac
counts, the second auditor and the treasurer
shall constitute and be known as the State
board of commissioners OF Excise. Any two
OF them shall constitute quorum.
p. That said board shall elect one of their
number chairman and another secretary, and
shall keep book of minutes of their proceed
ings, i'll which shall be entered an account of
the proceedings of the board, including all
appointments and removals of members OF the
city boards.
g. 1t shall be the duty of the State Board of
Commissioners of Excise to electfO each city
in the Commonwealth three qualified voters
(who shall be residents Of the city for which
they are chOsen) to be known as the Board OF
Commissioners of Excise for that city, who
60 into Office within ten days after their elec
ton, having first taken, subscribed and filed
in the clerks Office Of the corporation OF
hastings court, as the case may be, the oath
prescribed for county and city officials, said
natI, To hp t.,!7p an subscribed hpfnvp a
person qualified TO administer OathS. The terms
of office of members of this board shall CONT |
nue. during the pleasure OF the State board, |
and until their successors are appointed by
said board and qualified.
4. Each city Board of Commissioners of
Excise shall, at its first meeting, elect one of
their members chairman, and another one
secretary, and any vacancy occurring therein
by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, |
shall be filled by the State Board, and the per- |
son so chosen shall remain in Office until the
end Of the uneXplred term OF the person i'll
whose stead he was selected. In case Of the
absence from any meeting, OF the chairman |
who was selected as above required, then either
OF the other members may act as chairman pro
tenn. and in that capacity shall endorse any
application passed on at such meeting.
5. 1t shall be the duty of the board for any
city to consider the applications for license
which shall be referred to it in pursuance of
law and filed with itssecretary. For the purpose
of this consideration the board may adjourn
not however, to sit more than fifty days in
any one year. After an application has been
filed with the board they shall inquire into the |
character of the applicant, the suita bility, con-
venience and appropriateness OF the place in
which the said business is to be conducted,
and the general propriety of approving the APP
plicatiOn. The petitions OF resident citizens
for OF against the application may be filed
with the board, and shall be duly considered
by them. The chairman and acting chairman
of the board, whenever they deem it necessary
for the purpose Of informing themselves on
any of the matters referred to their considera-
ton by this act, to have witnesses before them,
may issue his summons, to be served by the
Sergeant of the city for any person within
said city to appear before them on day and
at place named to testify touching the case
in hand. After hearing all the testimony adj
duced for and against an application, and
making the investigation necessary to satisfy
themselves Oh the matters referred to their
discretion, the board may approve or disap-
prove the application, as it seems right and
proper to do Applications approved by the
board shall be endorsed Approved" with
the signature of the chairman, or the chairman
pro tenn, and applications disapproved shall
be endorsed 'Disapproved," with the like sig
natures.
g. Two members of any city board shall
constitute quorum. The secretary of the
board shall keep in a book to be provided for
the purpose by the State. minutes of the pre-
ceedings, in which shall be entered a memo
plicatiOn. This memorandum shall show the
name of the applicant, the nature of the bust
ness, the place at which it is sought to be con-
Quoted, whether the application was zap
proved OF ''disapproved," and the date of
the same.
T. Whenever in any city, from failure to
qualify, death, resignation, OF otherwise,
there is no board of Commissioners of Excise
at the time, any person wishing to make APP
plication for one of the licenses referred to in
section of this act, then such application
may be made to the Corporation or Hastings
Court of said city, which may grant the license,
but when there is such a board in Office the
Corporation OF Hastings Court shall not con-
slider any license to sell liquors within the
said city until and unless the same shall have
been first referred to and considered by said
board and returned with the endorsement
approved" over the signature Of the chair
man-elect Or chairman pro TEN.
8. Each member of city board shall re-
ceive three dollars day from the State for
each day of actual service. The fees OF wit
nesses OF officers shall be such as are provid-
ed by the Code for similar services and shall
be paid out of the public treasury on the GER
tiicate of the secretary of the board.
8. All laws OF parts of laws in conflict with
the provisions OF this act are hereby repealed.
10. This act shall be in force from its pas
sage.
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