The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-12-07
FOR A
DRY TOWN
Local Option Bill to be Intro
duced in the Assembly.

Its Discussion-Tbe Question of
Wet or Dry If the Bill is
Passed Will be Submitted to the
Voters.
The following Local Option Bill is
i to be submitted to the State Legisla-
ture at it's next session. The pastors
of several churches are making ar
rangements for public meeting in
it's behalf in Morristown, due notice
of which will be given:
An act for the submission periodical
ly to the legal voters of every muni-
cipality the question whether Ii
censes shall be granted to keep inns
and taverns and to sell Intoxicating
and brewed liquors.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of
New Jersey:
/. Hereafter no license, or renewal
thereof, to keep an inn or tavern, or
to sell alcoholic, spirituous, visous,
malt, or brewed liquors, shall be
granted by any Court, Excise Board,
Common Council, or other board or
authority now or hereafter having
power by law to grant suca licenses,
except upon the following conditions,
to wit: hat the applicant or appli-
cants shall pay the license fee pro-
vidad by law and that majority of
the ballots cast. in an election to be
held as hereinafter provided in the
- 1rl,
corpOrated village or other municipal
lity wherein said applicant or appli-
cants desires or desire to keep said
inn or tavern or to sell alcoholic,
spirituous vinous, malt or brewed
liquors shall be III favor of the grant
ing of such license No license shall
be granted fora longer period than one
year. 1t shall be understood .lat
nothing in this a t'co attained sna be
construed so as te interfere iii any
way with the rights and privileges
now or hereafter belonging to and ex-
ercised by druggists and pharmacists
re 5ularly employed in aud carrying
On the dug and pharmacy business to
sell said liquors upon q duly au-
thorized physician s written prescrip-
tion.
2. At the first regular election of
municipal officers to be held after
the passage of this act i'll each. city.
town, township, borough, incorporated
village or other municipality i'll this
state, there shall be submitted to the
legal voters, the question whether or
not there shall be granted during the
three years succeeding such election
any license to keep an inn or tavern,
or to sell alcoholic. spirituous, vinous,
malt or brewed liquors within the Ii
nits of such municipality and said
question srall be submitted to said
legal voters at the regular election OF
municipal officers recurring at the
expiration OF each and every period
of three years thereafter; it being the
intention of this section to provide
that the afore said question shall be
submitted to the voters OF each and
every municipality i'll this State once
III every three years, and not oftensr,
at the regular election for municipal
officers.
g. The ballots to be used in said
election shall conform in size. shape,
weight of paper, color of paper, color
of ink used, and i'll all other particu-
lars to the law providing for the bal
lots used iii an ordinary election.
They shall be provided by the officers
required by law to provide ballots for
the municipal election, and shall be
distributed to the voters by the
officers and in the manner provided
for in the laws governing elections
for municipal officers in the respective
cities, towns, tow nships, boroughs,
villages. and other municipalities.
One ballot reading, For liquor IL
censes, and one ballot reading,
F" Against liquor licenses, shall be
handed to each voter, tcgther with
the ballots bearing the names of the
various candidates, for municipal
officers, and the official envelope, as
directed by existing laws.
4. Said ballots shall contain the
words Against liquor licenses" and
" For liquor licenses, printed or writ
ten thereon, or partly printed and
partly written thereon, in black.
These words shall not be placed upon
any ballot contain ng the names of
the candidates of any political party,
but separate ballots shall be used which
may be folded separately or together
with the ballots containing the names
of the candidates for municipal Offices
then being voted for, and shall be
placed III the official enyel )pe, together
with the ballots containing the names
of the candidates as aforesaid. These
said ballots 'tfor and "against IL
censes" shall be counted at the same
time with the ballots for t. e muniei
pal officers elected at the said cleo
tion, and the result either for or
against license eanvassed and declared
by the same board OF elec ion, and in
the same manner, ard upon the same
sheet with the votes cast for the mum
icipal officers elected in and by the
same election.
s. If i'll any municipality the maicr-
itv of the votes cast III the said cleo
tion be in favor Of license, then court,
Excise Board, Common Council or
other board of authority empowered
by law TO grant licenses in such mum
icipality, shall, during tho three years
next following snch elction, have power
in their discretion to grant such Ii
censes as are mentioned in the first
section of this act TO applicants who
shall in all particulars conform to
the laws which govern the granting
of such licenses; but, if the majority
of the votes cast in said election in
any municipality be against license
then said Court, Excise Board, Com
mon Council&or other board Or au-
thority empowered by law to grant
such licenses in said municipality
shall not, during the three years next
following said election grant any
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