Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-14

ale. porter, beer. lager beer. cider, all
wines, any beverage with more than one
per cent. of alcohol by volume at 60 de-
grees Fahrenheit and distilled spirits.
Article of town meeting shall contain
provision. Shall license be granted for
sale OF intoxicating liquors in this town" "
Selectmen on application of six voters
shall call special town meeting to deter
mine kinds of license.
Selectmen shall appoint board OF license
commissioners, three persons not engaged
| directly or indirectly in manufacture or
sale of intoxicating liquors, one member
from each of two leading political par
ties, term of office six years, compensa-
ton 50 per day.
The board may at any time refuse to Is
sue license to applicant whom ii con-
siders an unfit person to receive the same.
Licenses not to exceed one for every
1000 people or the larger fraction thereof,
one license in town of less than 1000 peo-
pie, II voted Unlicensed sales prohibited.
Seven classes of licenses, LIST intoxicat-
ing liquor of any kind to be drunk on
premises. fee not less than $500. nor more
than 1920.
End, intoxicating liquors not to be drunk
on premises. fee $500 Bird class liquors,
cider and light wines not more than Is
per cent alcohol to be drunk on premises,
fee. $3.50.
Attn, intoxicating liquors by wholesale,
fee. 5000
5th. for medicinal purposes, includes
druggists. not less than SO
9Th. in summer hotels. an amount pro-
portioned according to its duration to the
fees OF licenses of first class
eth, malt liquors, elders and light wines
containing not more than Is per cent of
alcohol not to be drunk on premises, fee,
not less than $50.
No liquor TO be furnished or given away
between hours of IL at night and in
morning. except by a registered pharma-
cist, selling under a fifth class license nor
on Sunday, nor on holidays nor to a
minor, habitual drunkard pauper in
/ sane person, nor 10 a person whose hus-
band, wife, children, brother, sister,
guardian or employers has forbidden.
on the first Monday of each month
/ holder of license shall report to county
I clerk. Bond must accompany applicat ton
for license No lcensee shall have screen,
4 blind, shutter curtain. partition or
| painted. ground or stained glass windows.
1 nor expose in windows any bottle, case
/ or other vessel. Unlicensed selling OF
1 liquors shall be prosecuted. The receipt
for or record of the payment of the
! United States special tax shall be prima
1 facie evidence.
person who furnishes. sells or ex-
| poses or helps for sale without license
shall be fined not less than $500 nor be
J imprisoned not less than three nor more
| than IL months
This act shall take effect on the first
| Tuesday of March, A. D.. 1878, provided
that II majority of the ballots to be cast
as hereinafter provided shall be no. then
| this act shall take effect the first Mon
day in December. A. D.. 1904.
| special meeting in the towns shall be
called for the first Tuesday of January
next. providing for an opportunity of the
I fR<A Ill
! judgment and choice In regard to this
act On the third Tuesday of January
the secretary of state shall canvass the
returns and shall within two days issue
his proclamation certifying the result OF
such vote and declaring the time when
the provisions of this act shall take eff
| feet.
The biggest days work of the ses.
sion was done today The House
tackled sc measures, passed 27 of
them, killed nine and referred the
others. In the Senate 20 bills were
passed and only two killed. Among
those passed was the bill exempting
rents, etc, of real estate of a married
| woman from attachment for debts of
husband, and the bill exempting from
/ taxation money loaned to town or
city by residents at 3 per cent. or
less. The Senate killed the bill re.
ducing the age of consent from 16
years to IA years.
The House passed Mr.. Gales bill
requiring candidates for public Office
to file a sworn statement of campaign
expenses, and, after long discussion
and several amendments, the bill re.
lating TO the preservation of the pub
lie health. Also the bill giving
towns the option of electing one OF
two road commissioners. Mr.. Gale
OF Guilford opposed the bill and said
that the state highway commissioner
was opposed to the change Mr.. Ken,
dali of West Windsor held that each
town was in position to know its own
needs and often two commissioners
would serve the town better than one
Mr.. Conland of Brattleboro opposed
the bill on the ground that it was a
step in the direction of a return to the
old highway system The bill final
ly passed by vote of LOG yeas and ~
nays. Mr.. Conland's bill for the in
corporation of the Carpenter Organ
company was passed.
In the list of bills approved by the
governor is that of Mr.. Dunklee OF
Vernon relating to the adulteration
OF milk, and a bill to pay A. w. j
Wilkins the sum named. The gov
ernor has also approved the joint
resolution relating to the acceptance
by the state of tablet in honor OF
Gen. William Farrar Smith, and re-
lating to placing a tablet In the Of
fce OF the sergeant at arms in re.
membrance of the late Truman c.
Phinney.