The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-10
TEMPE RANCE LAWS
The Full Text by Sen. Henry
A. London's Bill.
II Embodies he Rec lamentations Made by the
* cu,iye Committee Of the Anti
Saloon League.

Watt, of Iredell, Which looks to abolish
ing all saloons and stills except in in
corporated towns The bill was either
drawn, or approved, by Senator Sim
mons before he went to Washington last
week.
Yesterday Senator H. A. London in
troduced a bill embodying the features
contained in the Watts bill, and adding
other rovisions-mainly those that were
recommended by the executive commit
tee of the Anti-Saloon League.
The deep interest in the matter and
it's Importance caused this paper yester-
day to print in full the bill introduced
by Mr. Watts. Below will be found the
full text of the bill introduced by Sena-
tor London:
A Bill to be Entitled IAN Act to Regulate
the Manufacture and sale of Liquor"
The General Assembly of North Caro-
lima do enact:
Section l. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, company or corporation
to manufacture or barter or sell any
spirituous, vinous, malt, fermented or
other intoxicating liquors outside OF the
corporate limits of incorporated cities
and towns.
Sec. g. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, company, firm or corporation to
manufacture spirituous, vinous, malt, fer
mented or other intoxicating liquors in
an incorporated city or town having a
population of less than one thousand in
habitants, within it's corporate limits.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, company, firm or corporation to
sell or barter any spirituous, malt, vim
Gus, fermented or other intoxicating Ii
quors in any city or town, having pop
ulation of less than five hundred inhab-
itants, within its corporate limits.
Sec. 4. That the place where delivery
of any spirituous, malt, vinous, ferment-
ed or other intoxicating liquors is made
in the State of North Carolina shall be
construed and held to be the place of the
sale thereof and any station or other
place within said State to which any per-
son, company, firm or corporation shall
ship or convey any spirituous, malt vim
Gus, fermented or other intoxicating Ii
quors, for the purpose of delivery or
carrying the same to a purchaser, shall
be construed to be the place of sale:
Provided, this section shall not be con-
strued to prevent the delivery of any
spirituous, malt vinous, fermented or
other intoxicating liquors to druggists in
sufficient quantities for medical purposes
only, or to legally organized dspensaries.
Sec. 5. That after the first day iof July,
1903, it shall be unlawful for the commits
sioners of any county, city or town, or
the Board of Aldermen of any city or
town to issue license for any person to
manufacture or sell intoxicating liquors
who has not, thirty days prior to the
granting of such license, made written
application for the sale, and filed with
the said application a petition, which
shall be kept open to public inspection
asking that the license shall be granted,
and signed by a majority of the qualified
voters of the city or town in which the
license is to be operated: Provided that
the provisions of this section shall not
apply to cities or towns in which, within
two years prior to such application for
license, an election shall have been held
and carried for saloons.
Sec. g. That all liquors or mixtures
thereof, by whatever name called, that
sidered and held to be intoxicating liquors
within the meaning of this act.
Sec T. That all charter rights giving
power to authorize the manufacture or
sale of intoxicating liquors in conflict
with the provisions of this act be and the
same are here abrogated and the laws
granting the same are hereby repealed.
Sec g. That this act shall not be con-
"a @sxS%,,
vinous or malt liquors by druggist for
sickness, upon written prescription of a
regularly practicing physician licensed by
the Medical Society of North Carolina
and having such sick person under his
charge.
8. That any druggist who shall more
than once fill the prescription mentioned
in the preceding section of this act with
out each time receiving anew the writ
ten direction of the physician who gave
the same, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor.
Sec TO- That any physician who shall
make any prescription or written direc-
tion to druggist for the purpose of aid
ing or abetting any person or persons
who are not bona fide sick and under
his care to purchase any intoxicating Ii
quor contrary to the provisions of this
act, shall be guilty of misdemoanor,
and shall forfeit his license to practice
medicine in the State of North Carolina
Sec. II. This act shall not be SO con-
strued as to prohibit any person from
manufacturing and selling wine or cider
manufactured from grapes, BERRIES or
fruit grown on his own lands.
Sec II. That it shall be the duty of
the Board of Commissioners of any coun-
ty, upon petition of one third of the reg
istered voters of any Incorporated city
or town in said county having more than
five hundred inhabitants within it's cor
porate limits, said petitioners being per-
sons who actually voted in the preceding
general election in such county, to order
an election, to be held at a date not soon
er than thirty days nor later than ninety
days after the filing of the said petition,
and not sooner than thirty days after it
is ordered, to determine one of three
question, to-Wit: "a whether the sale
of intoxicating liquors shall be prohibit
ed in said city or town or shall be made
by licensed Saloons or GU whether the
sale of intoxicating liquors shall be pro-
hibited in said city or town or shall be