The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-09-19

happen If both bills failed to pass.
Minister Damon explained that,
under the old law, grave abuses were
capable of being practiced which the
new bills hoped to do away with.
Mr.. Emmeluth said that he wished
to distinctly state that when the time
came when he had to sacrifice his
convictions to a policy and outside
pressure. he would resign as mem
Der of the advisory council.
Mr.. Smith again hoped that the
two bills would be published and
pointed out the Importance of the
public being informed on the present
proposed legislation before the coun-
ellis passed thereon. He moved that
the new bill presented by the judici-
airy committee pass first reading as
ammended.
| Mr.. Emmeluth said that Mr..
Smiths point was not well taken.
Mr.. Smith explained the views of
the liquor dealers, the druggists and
the physicians on the question.
The following is the act reported
from committee as ammended and
passed first reading:
ACT An Act to provide for the
importation and sale OF alcohol
for certain purposes and of methy-
lated spirits.
Be it enacted by the executive and
advisory councils of the Provisional
Government of the Hawaiian Islands:
SECTION l. Wherever in this act
the words methylated spirits" are
used, they shall mean ethylic alcohol
to which has been added at least one
ninth its bulk of pyroxylic spirits.
Wherever in this act the word "alco-
holn is used, it shall mean the ordin-
airy alcohol of commerce known as
ethylic alcohol.
SEC. 2. The holder of any retail
license is hereby authorized to sell
methylated spirits, and the collector
general of customs is hereby author
lied to permit the holders of such re-
tail licenses to withdraw methylated
spirits from the custom-hOuse upon
the payment of duty of one dollar
per gallon. Before allowing such
methylated spirits to be withdrawn
from the custom-house, the collector
general shall be satisfied that the said
methylated spirits contains at least
one-ninth of its bulk of pyroXylic
spirit.
SEC. 8. The minister of the interior
is hereby authorized to grant licenses
to such licensed druggists as he
proper for the sale of alcohol. The
in g Il, H.
of fifty dollars for each year, and the
licenses shall be for the term of one
year from the date Of issue.
SEC. 4. Before granting any license,
a good and sufficient bond to the
minister of the interior in the sum of
one thousand dollars secured in not |
less than double the amount of the |
penalty shall be required. The con-
dition of the bond shall be, that the |
holder of such license shall sell no |
alcohol except in the manner as pro-
vided in this act. The said minister |
of the interior is likewise authorized |
to require any other condition of |
security to insure the due observance
of this act, and is specifically author
lied to make and provide rules and /
controlling the sale of |
alcohol under this act, not inconsist-
ent with the law.
SEC. 5. The collector-general of
customs is hereby authorized to per-
NIT the holders of alcohol licenses
herein provided to withdraw alcohol
from the custom-hOuse upon the pay
ment of one dollar per gallon duty.
SEC. 6. The holders of licenses for
the sale of alcohol under this act are
hereby prohibited from selling alco-
hol in greater quantity than one-half
pint at any one sale, except upon the
written prescription of duly licensed
which prescription shall
state that the alcohol is required for
purposes, and no greater
quantity than one-half gallon shall
be sold to any one person presenting
such prescription, except to licensed
to whom one gallon may
,umbent upon any holder of a license
under this act to number and preserve
such prescriptions, and to keep a
book in which he shall write or cause
10 be written down the quantity
Of alcohol sold at each sale
made under this act, the date of such
sale, the name of the person to whom
such alcohol was sold, and if sold upon
the name of the licensed
physician giving the same. 1t shall
also be the duty of such licensee to
make return under oath upon the first
lay of each month to the minister of
,he interior, showing in addition to
he matters to be recorded in a book
Is aforesaid, the amount of alcohol
from the custom house by
such licensee since making This last
returns, together with the amount of
alcohol on hand at the time of max
ng such returns. Such returns shall
De open to public inspection, and such
book and prescription shall be open
% inspection by any clerk of the gov
whom the minister of the
interior may appoint to perform such
SEC. Z. Any person who shall be
of selling alcohol without a
license to sell the same, or any holder
Of license who shall be convicted of
selling alcohol contrary to the proYis-
ons of this act, shall be fined not
less than one hundred nor more than
TWO hundred and fifty dollars. If any
person holding a license under this
act shall violate or fail to comply with
the provisions in this act or in his
ioerse contained Or fthe rI1les and