Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-18

| OBJECTIONS OF CIrIxKNs.
The District Commissioners yesterday after
noon, sitting as an excise board under the new
liquor law, adopted the following regulations,
which are substantially the same as those
recommended by Assistant Attorney Thomas
and published in The STAR:
Section 1. Every person intending TO apply
for liquor license must pay to the collector OF
taxes the fee required for such license and file
with tie excise board on or before the LIST day
OF November, 1898. and each year thereafter, a
petition setting forth his or her name, age that
! the applicant is . citizen Of the United States
: and not less than twenty-one years Of age, and
I that such applicant has never since the passage
Of the act of March 8, 1893 COT the license act),
been adiudged guilty of violating the laws gov
erning the sale Of intoxicating liquors or laws
for the prevention Of gambling in the District
4 Of Columbia. and local residence of the appli-
can't and how long he or she has resided there.
the place where such license is desired, deslg-
mating it by street and number or by such
other apt description as definitely locates it;
the name OF the owner of the premises in which
the business Is to be conducted; that the ap-
plicant is the only person pecuniarily inter-
ested in the business asked to be licensed, and
whether the applicant has had license during
D. u.
This petition must be verified by the petitioner
before q notary public or other officer duly
authorized to administer oaths.
Sec. 2. No license will be granted to any per-
son not q citizen of the United States, and who
is less than twenty-one years of age or who has
been adjudged guilty Of violating the act OF
Congress approved March 8, 1893, regulating the
sale of intoxicating liquors in the District Of
Columbia, or the laws for the prevention of
gambling in said District
Sec. 8. That with every application for a bar
room license. within the cities OF Washington
and Georgetown. there must be presented the
written permission Of the majority of the own
ers Of real estate and the majority of the resi-
dents keeping house on the same side Of the
square where it is desired to locate such bust
ness, and on the side Of the square fronting OPP
poslte the same, and II the location of such bar
room is on a corner and has an entrance thereon.
such signers will be required in all cases on both
streets (the term residents keeping house
does not include boarders, persons rent nc
houses or tenants OF 1ats). All signatures to
, such application must be made in ink and
agents signing must sign the names OF their
several principals N front OF their own sigma
lures as agent. and be prepared to show legal
authority for signing such application for their
respective principals, in case the excise board
should require it. The fact of ma ority of the
signatures OF owners OF real estate shall be GER
titled by the assessor OF the District OF Column
bia, and the genulneness OF all signatures, and
the fact OF ma ioritv OF residents shall be as
certained and certified to by the lieutenant, or
acting lieutenant of the police precinctin which
the proposed business is to be located.
Sec. 4. That no license will be granted to any
person to sell liquor within 400 feet. measured
between the nearest entrance to each. by the
shortest course OF travel, of a private school
house, house of religious worship or public
school house owned or occupied by tine District
OF Columbia, except in such place of business
a established a
erection o; such private school, house of re-
hgious worship or public school house.
sec. 5. No license will be granted to any per-
son convicted Of selling or giving away liquors
during the preceding license year to a solder.
to a minor, to any habitual drunkard or TO
intoxicated person after request by such per-
son s wife, mother or daugh.e r in writing. not
to sell to such person. or to any premises " hire
gambling has been allowed, or which are or
have been used as a bawdy house during said
year.
(a) To any person convicted during the pre-
ceding license year with selling liquor on Sun
day, or after midnight and prior to o clock
am, or with seilng liquor without license. and
no consideration or al application for license
Will be gwen pending prosecution OF the appii-
cant for violation OF the liquor license law or
regulations.
(t). 10 any person keeping a place where
idle. noisy, disorderiy or suspicious characters
congregate. Business streets for the purpose
of these regulations shall be he'd to be streets
or avenues. portions of the streets or
avenues. between two streets crossing the same
which are principally occupied for the purposes
Of business.
(c). A bar room license to any grocery, pro-
vision or confectionery store. and in all cases
OF premises adjoining stores. licenses will be
denied where there is an entrance or o. ening
between any such store and the licensed
premises.
Sec. g. In all cases Of application for whole
sale licenses it must be satsfac soriiy shown ina
tho places where it is Intended to carry on bust
ness are properly arranged for the safe OF
spiri;uous liquors as merchandise, and that the
party making application has not and does not
intend to sell liquors to be drunk on the
premises.
Sec Z. All applicants or holders of license
shall allow the duly authorized agents or officers
OF the excise board full oppor .unI.y examine
the premises Tor which license Is asked or has
been granted. A refusal 10 do shall be
deemed q sufficient cause to reject the appli-
cation. and all licensees are req Iired to frame
their Licenses, under glass, and place the same
in q conspicuous place in their chief place OF
business. 80 that any one entering such place
NAV easily read said license.
Sec. =. Bar room licenses will not be granted
where it shall appear to the excise board that
the place wnere it Is proposed to locate the
business Ii in q neighborhood occupied largely
by private residences, and the entrance to which
is within ffsy feet OF the entrance 20 a private
residence, the owner or lessee Of which shall
file with the Commissioners a profess against
such license. or where there are, in the opinion
of The excise board more such places than
the accommodation OF the pubic demands.
Sec. 8. Licences will not oe granted to any per-
son employed in any capacity under the Dis
trict government, or to any person who, by
reason Of any other employment or business.
will be absent from the licensed place during
business hours, or to any peraon not an actual
resident OF the District of Columbia.
| Sec. 10. The excise board will consider any
valid objection made by citizens 10 an applica-
! ton provided such objections are specific in
their charac ter-that Is, against particular
applicant or against the particular place, and
bear the signatures OF the PARTIES making the
same.
Sec. II. That with every application for bar
room license. to sell intoxica ing liquors by re-
tail in any part Of the District Of Columbia
| town where license is not prohibi sed), there
| must be presented the written permission from
| q ma jority Of the persons owning real estate
and Of residents keeping house within the space
OF ESQ feet Of the street road on each side of
the place where it is desired to locate such
business, and within similar space on the side
OF the street or road fronting opposite such
place.
Sec. II. That the approval by the excise board
Of applications for license for the sale OF In
/ toxicating liquors must precede the opening Of
places where such liquors are sold except where
the applicant has had q license during the pre-
cedinR year. in which case the applicants place