The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-08
THE NEW LIQUOR LAus.
Changes by the Last Legislature to Cove
the rattle

Changes by the Last Legislature to Govern
the ratio.
Many important laws regarding the
liquor traffic We're enacted by the last
general assembly.
One law provides for secret ballot
on the question of license to sell spirit
uous and intoxicating liquors. The
secretary of state is required to fur
nish official envelopes and ballots for
this purpose. The secretary must fur
nish official license and no-license ball
lots to all who ask for them, upon the
payment of cost thereof. Only the Off
cial ballots shall be counted, all others
to be rejected.
The most important piece of liquor
legislation relates to fees The fee for
liquor license in towns of more than
5000 inhabitants is fixed at $3.50 and I'M
towns of less than 5000 inhabitants at
$3.50. The license fee for the sale of
beer and Rhine wine is established at
5000. The county commissioners may
grant to reputable and well established
hotels in places of less than $500 popu-
lation a license for a fee which must
not be less than $3.50 The commission
ers "also may grant special licenses to
reputable grocers to sell spirituous and
Intoxicating liquors, not to be drunk
on the premises but the fee for such a
license shall be not less than $3.50, to be
determined by said county commits
sioners in each case" Another feature
Of this law provides that licenses for.
the unexpired part of a license year
shall be paid for pro rata according N
the prescribed annual fees.
Another law directs the county COM
missioners, instead of the town clerk,
as is now done, to advertise applica
TONS for licenses. The town clerk Is
given fee Of fifty cents for his services
in connection with the application for
a license.
Another law makes 1t penal offense
for person, with intent to purchase
liquor, to enter at unlawful hours a
place where liquors are sold, or to be
found lettering in a saloon during such
| hours.
| A very important act provides that
| liquor licenses in cities shall be con-
| fined to the efficiently policed parts
| thereof. No license, except renewal,
can be granted in purely residential
and purely manufacturing parts of a
town except to a we'll established hotel
of good reputation; nor can it be grant
ed in detrimental proximity to a char
liable institution; Nor cam 1t be granted
I'M those parts Of a license town where
it is apparent that the party applying
| for it is seeking to obtain patronage
from adjoining no-license towns.
| Another measure provides that app
peals from the decisions of county COM
| missloners with reference to licenses
shall be forthwith placed upon the dock
ct, and may be heard in vacation by
Iany judge of the superior court, whose
Judgment shall have the same effect as
a judgment of such court.
According to another law, any minor
who, in order to get liquor from Ii
censed dealer, falsely states that he is
not a minor is liable to a fine of not
more than $50 or to Imprisonment for
not more than sixty days.
4 BY another new statute no applicant
for the renewal of a license shall, ex-
cept under certain conditions, be pros
ecuted for selling liquor without q IL
cense, pending the decision Of the
county commissioners on his applioa-
ton.
| Another important law authorizes an
officer to arrest without warrant any
person found Illegally selling trans
porting or distributing intoxicating H.
quors, and to seize the liquor, vessels
and implements of sale I'M the possess
sion of such person. Immediately after
| making such seizure or arrest the Off
Ger must make complaint to the proper
prosecuting officer, and warrants must
| be issued
| When a person is convicted of violat-
| ing the license law and no appeal is
pending. the clerk of the court Is re-