The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-11-19
Comparative Synopsis Of the License and the Bat
tell Bills. What the Ross Bill Proposes.
FACTS I'm A NUT SHELL.
BATTELL BILL.

Definition of Intoxicating Liquor.
Same in both bills one per cent of
alcohol.
Prohibition of Traffic.
No person shall sell or keep for sale
contrary to provisions of act.
Allows
| Sale of cider by the barrel by farm
ers or makers. Not to be drunk on
premises.
Machinery of Law.
County board of three liquor COM
missioners, to be elected in March by
| liquor electors-one from each town
or city; compensation So day and
mileage each way; to elect member
as chairman; county clerk is secretary,
to keep records and administer oaths.
Town Local Option.
Shall there be State store in this
town." "Shall hotel keepers be Ii
censed to sell beer and wine?" May
authorize sale of beer and light wines
to be drunk on the premises in State
store.
Number of Places.
One store for each 1, 900 inhabitants f;
one in any event in a town so voting.
Time of Sales.
No sale between D. m. and z. a.
m, or on Sundays, or on election days
or holidays No limitation placed on
hotels or pharmacists when they may
sell.
Prohibition of Sales.
No sale or delivery to known drunk
ard, or intoxicated person, or to one
known to have been intoxicated with
in six months, or to minor in any
event, or by way of treating"
Quality of Liquor.
To be of good standard quality, free
frOm adulteration.
State Store.
Room liquor is sold III to be next to
the street; no obstruction to screen
view of business from street; no a6-
vertisement or sign to show business
except Estate Liquor Store"; no 9TH
but sale of liquor
Location of Stores.
No State Store to be in the imme.
diate vicinity of building occupied as
public school or church. Nothing said
about drug stores or inn-Keepers il
this respect.
, Pharmacists.
Application to be signed by twenty.
five per cent of legal voters board may
! then grant license in it's Judgment; fee
$1,000. applicant to give bond il
So, 900; must purchase liquor at State
Stores at ten per cent profit. License
can sell only on prescription of physi
, clan; license forfeited if pharmacist
opens bottle of liquor except fol
for compromising purposes; fine, $2i
to 500, and revocation of license anC
also license as pharmacists for viola
ton of act; licensee to keep record OF
purchases of liquor and uses it was de-
voted to, to be filed quarterly with
: State board and county board
Hotel Keepers.
Hotels may sell light wines or malt
liquors purchased of the State at tel
$3, 900.
, State Store Keeper.
Appointed by county liquor commits
sioners; bond, $3,000 to take oatl
of Office to be endorsed on bond loca
, ton of State Store to be shown on Ii
+ cense; appointment good for one year
, may be revoked for cause board tt
! prosecute State store keeper for viola
, ton of law or conditions of appoint
, ment; applicant to be resident o.
:. town where store is located; not (,
keeper of restaurant or place of pub
, lie amusement; not addicted to us,
of Intoxicating liquor as beverag,
and never been convicted of VIC.
latione of prohibitory law. No Stat'
Store keeper to be under 81 years o,
age.
Prosecutions.
On receipt of information as to il
legal sale member to inform chairman
who shall cause offender to be prose
: cuted; any member of board neglect
ing or refusing so to do liable to fin
of not more than 5000.
Profits.
To be sent to State Treasurer, he t,
r distribute to the several towns to us
: as they see fit; State store keepers t,
/ remit monthly to State treasurer
: State pays all salaries and expenses.
a Procuring Liquor.
= Purchases (other than malt liquor
drunk on premises) to be procured b,
filling out written or printed orde
r stating name and age of purchaser
kind of liquor and purpose wanted for
order must show that applicant i
not within the prohibited category.
Penalty for Illegal Selling
Not less than 800 or more than 800
on second conviction Imprisonment
two to twelve months.
q United States License.
+ Payment of United States licens,
tax prima facia evidence of violation
of law.
Repeats