The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-31

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said chapter and section be further
amended By adding after the words
special STATUTE in line seven of said
section, the following: 1t shall be
unlawful for any person or persons.
firm or corporation, to manufacture
or rectify. for gain, any spirituous,
vinous ol. malt liquors, or Intoxicating.
hitters within the State of North Car
olina. except in Incorporated cities
and towns having not less than fifteen
hundred population wherein the man.
hereafter be prohibited by law or reg
ulated by special statute
"rhat section four of chapter 233
of the Public Laws Of 1908 be amend
cd 6y inserting after the word manu-
factufe.' in line two thereof, the words
or rectification.
''That section nineteen of this chap
ter be amended by striking out the
words manufacture and, in lines two
and three thereof, and inserting at the
end thereof the following: That Moth
ing in this act shalt De construed to
repeal. alter or amend any SPECIAL act
prohibiting or regulating the manufac-
ture of liquors in any incorporated city
or town having less than fifteen hum
dred population
"That chapter 233 of the Public
Laws of 1903 be further amended by
aiding after section nineteen the fol-
lowing, numbered as section twenty:
That every Incorporated city or town
in which sprituous Vinous or malt Ii
uuorS or intoxicating bitterS are per-
mitted 10 be sold or manufactured
ander the. provisions OF this act, shall
maintain a town or city government as
provided in its charter Of incorpora
ton and 81 police force of not less
than two policemen, and it shall be
the duty of some member Of said po-
lice force 10 visit each place where
liquor is sold or manufactured in said
CITY or town at least once every week
and make q careful and thorough in
spection and examination thereof. with
a view of ascerttining whether the laws
regulating the manufacture and sale
OF liquor are observed and sobeyed, and
whether the said business is conduct
ed in an orderly and lawful manner,
and To make q written report setting
forth the result of said visitation TO
the mayor and Board Of Aldermen of
said city or town, which report or sev-
eral reports the said mayor shall de-
liver TO the solicitor of the district on
or before the assembling of the en-
suing term OF the Superior court of
the county in which said town or city
is situated and i'm case such town or
city shall fail TO maintain q city gov
eminent, or provide the police force.
investigations, and reports, herein pre-
scribed the board OF commissioners of
the county in which the same is sit
uated may revoke and cancel the IL
cense and permission authorizing the
sale: and manufacture of liquor in said
town on city
THAT said chapter 223 of the Pub
lie Laws OF 1903 be further amended
Ey adding thereto another section, az
ter the preceding section. to be num-
bered section twcnty-one, as follows
That tn" possession OF or issuance to
any person, firm or corporation of Il IL
cense to manufacture, rectify or sell.
AT wholesale or retail spirituouS or
malt liquors. by the United states gov
eminent or any officer thereof, in any
county, city or town. where the manu-
facture, sale or rectification of spirit
}uous or malt liquors is forbidden by
Jaw of this State, shall be prima facia
evidence that the person, firm or cor
poration having such license, or TO
whom the same was issued, was guilty
OF doing the act permitted by the said
license, in violation OF the laws of this
state.
That chapter 233 of the Public
Laws of 1908 be further amended by
changing the figure, '2o,' in line one,
section twenty, thereof. TO the figures
.23'
..rhat all laws and clauses of laws
in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
That this act shall take effect from
and alter the first day of July, A. ID.
1905"
The bill with the amendment mem
toned passed with but one dissenting
fot -
can.
The following bills We're acted upon
by the committee:
). y. To repeal Chapter 49S. Pub
lie Laws of 1903, relative to the anti
jug law in Pender county. The bill
further provides that Chapter IS of
the Public Laws of 1901 shall remain
III ful! force and effect. Senator Moore
said that for fifteen years there has
not been a bar-room in Pender coun-
-. and in seven years there has not
been a still. New Hanover county
smuggles in whiskey and il is brought
III IRON Kentucky and Virginia. the
law IS so stringent that even apple
cider cannot be sold. Mr.. Moore stat
ed that there is not even a blind tiger
IN that county. He promised in his
canvas during the campaign that he
would have this law repealed There
alN thiCS iftltICdbS III I~enuGr COUNTY,
ana whiskey is shipped into II in great
quantities and his people demanded
that J.. be repealed. Pender county
he said, is under a double act, this
special temperance legislation and the
supreme Court decision. The bill was
laid over and action will be taken at
The next meeting of the committee
III. Il. To prevent the killing Of
squirrels in Jones Onslow and Frank
lin county. Jones county was stricken
out and Wake and Dare were added.
The bill with the amendments was re-
ported faVorably.
S. T., by Ward. To amend the
Watts law regulating the manufacture
and sale Of liquors in North Carolina.
As Mr.. Ward had submitted another
bill this was reported back To the Sem
;.te without prejudice.
H. B. 70 repeal the act Chapter
$40, Public Laws of 1908. The repeal
would not affect the counties of Cleve-
lard, Cabarrus. Mitchell and Castor,
and the chapter will remain in full
fierce i'll these counties. This is a
liquor bill. and action was postponed
awaiting the decision of the House ON