Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1902-11-27
A VERMONT SYSTEM.
The Battell Bill to regulate and
license the sale of intoxioa-
ting liquors
IN
Towns and cities so voting
guaranteeing the purity
thereof; and providing
for the distribution
of the profits of
such sales
1t Is hereby enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of Vermont

1t Is hereby enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Vermont.
Section /. Ale, porter, strong beer lager
beer, cider, all wines, any beverage
| which contains more than one per cent.
of alcohol by volume at 60 degrees fab
| renheit, and distilled spirits, shall be
deemed to be intoxicating liquor within
the meaning of this Act.
Sec 2. No person shall sell or expose
or keep for sale, spirituous or intoxicating
liquor, except as authorized in this Act;
but the provisions of this Act shall not
apply to sales by the barrel, by the
manufacturers thereof. of cider manu-
featured in this State, nor to sales by
persons of cider made for them, if it is
not drunk upon their premises, nor sold
in quantities of less than one barrel.
Sec. s. There shall be in each county
a Board of Liquor Commissioners, con-
sisting of three persons who shall be
legal voters of said county, who shall be
named the County Liquor Commission
ers," and who shall hold office for two
years, or until their successors are duly
qualified. Two members shall be a
quorum for the transaction of business.
If member ceases to be a resident of
the county for which he is elected, or
becomes unable to perform his duties for
thirty days, his office shall be vacant.
In case of a vacancy arising from any
cause, the remaining members shall have
the power to fill such vacancy until the
next election.
Sec. A. The County Liquor Commits
sioners shall be elected at a meeting to
be held at the county court house in
each county, at one O'Clock p. m, on the
first Monday following the several town
or city March meetings by a board of
County Liquor Electors, consisting of
one person from each town or city, but
no election shall be had until q ma iority
of said electors are present. Said elect
ors shall be chosen by ballot biennially
at the annual March meetings and shall
hold ofhce for two years, or until their
successors are chosen If the special
meetings are called, as provided for in
Sec. of this Act, the elec then
elected and the Commissioners by them
chosen, shall hold office until March,
1905, when their successors shall be
elected as aforesaid. In case of a va
cancy in said Board of Liquor Electors
for any cause, the selectmen of the town
or the mayor of the city in which the
vacancy occurs shall fill the same. In
case of the failure of Electors of any
county to elect a Board of County Liquor
Commissioners, the State Board of
Liquor Commissioners shall appoint the
same. The clerk of the county shall be
eX-officio secretary of the meeting of the
electors, and, at said meeting shall keep
a record of the proceedings which he
shall record in book kept for that pur-
pose, and shall issue to each person
elected as member of the Board of
County Liquor Commissioners a certifi-
cate OF his election, and if an appoint
ment is made to fill vacancy or to sup
ply a failure to elect. said appointment
shall be certified by the Board making
1t 10 the said county clerk who shall
record the same and issue a certificate
to the person so appointed.
Sec. 3. The Board of County Liquor
Commissioners shall keep record of its
doings and hearings, which record shall
be open to the public, and said board
may require any statements which may
be made before it and papers which may
be filed with it TO be sworn to, and for
such purposes, any member may ad-
minister oathS.
Sec. 6. Each member of the Board of
County Liquor Commissioners Shall re-
ceive three dollars per day whilst en-
ployed in his official duties, and ten cents
mileage each way; but no member shall
thirty days in any year. Each member
of the Board of County Liquor Electors
shall receive three dollars for each meet
ing of said board which he shall attend
and ten cents mileage each way
Sec. Z. In each town and city there
shall be inserted in the warning for the
annual town or city meeting an article
providing for vote upon the questions:
LIST. Shall Stat Store for the sale of
Intoxicating liquors be opened in this
town or citN?" I'd. Shall regis cred
pharmacists be licensed to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors in this town or ct.y?" Sd.
shall hotel keepers be licensed TO sell
intoxicating liquors in this town or
city," And vote shall be taken on said
questions at said meeting ard the clerk
of each town or city shall within ten
days after such vote is taken transmit A
true statement thereof, to the clerk of
the board Of County Liquor Commission
ers of the county in which said town or
city is situated.
Sec S. The report shall be in the fol-
lowing form: ITO the County Board of
Liquor Commissioners for the county of
--- In conformity with the law I
hereby certify that in the town or city
OF -- IN said county at the annual
March meeting held on the dav of
March A. d. 19O--, in answer to the ques-
ton, Shall a State Store for the sale of
intoxicating liquors be opened in this
town or city, there were yea
votes and ---- nay woes" And the
report shall give the number of yea and
nay votes on the other two questions
mentioned in Section l.
Sec. 3. y special town meeting shall
be be held in each town and city in the
meetings electors shall be chosen as pro-
vided for in Section of this Act, and
SAID electors shall meet on the following
MONDAY at the time and place named in
sdld section and eject County LIQUOR
commissioners as herein provided. and
vote shall be taken upon the olIestions
Stated in Sec. of this Act and If a
majority OF the votes cast are yes" the
same applications and proceedings may
be had for the opening of a State store
10 sell intoxicating liquor in such town
or city as are provided in this Act when
towns or cities vote yes on said cues
tloh at the annual March meeting Six
Gays warning shall be sufficient notice
OF such special town or city meeting and
II snail he called in other RESPECTS in
the same manner as annual town or civ
meetings are called. Such special meet
ing shall be called upon applicarion to
the seiectmen or mayor in writing of
one-fourth of the voters of said town or
city. Such whole number of voters shall
be taken to be the whole number or
votes cast for Governor in said town or
city in the year 1902
=, sec; III. No State Store shall be estab-
hshed or maintained in a town or CITY
not voting IN favor of the same. and the
IumDef OF stores shall not exceed one
LOT each hVe thousand of the population
OF such town or city as ascertained bv
the last preceding national census But
one such Store may be established and
maintained in any town or city having
population of less than five thousand
so determined.
sec. II: Each State Store for the sale
Oh intoxicating liquor shall be subject to
the following conditions
FIRST. That intoxicating liquor shall
not De sold between the hours of nine at
night and seven in the morning nor on
sunday nor on any election day, nor on
any legal holiday
Second. That intoxicating LIQUOR shall
not be sold, exchanged or delivered, or
exposed, offered or kept for sale, ex-
change OF delivery, upon any of the
premises aforesaid unless it is of good