Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-08
ANOTHER BLOW TO "PIGGERS'
Under the Provisions Of the Haugen Bill that Has Passed
Both Houses Everybody Will Be Informed
Regarding Government Licenses

AS finally passed by both houses
Representative Haugen's bill No. 1876,
reads as follows:
All persons holding federal liquor
licenses in this state will be required
to register the same with the county
auditor and pay a registration fee Of
$40.
The holders of all such federal tax
receipts or licenses will also be obliged
to publish for three successive weeks,
in each of the official county and city
newspapers, notice giving the name
I, of persons to whom the government
tax receipt is issued, date of same, de-
scription of property where same is
posted, number of lot and block, and
i specifically describing the room where
notice is posted. Such notices are to
be published for three successive
weeks in each newspaper, and failure
to do so constitutes misdemeanor.
4 If the party in whose name the license
is issued fails to make the publication
and registration required by the act
it becomes the duty of the owner or
lessor of the premises on which the
government license is posted to do SO
under the penalties.
The object of this act is evidently
! to give the widest publicity to the
holding of a federal license to tran
sact an unlawful business in this state,
and particularly describing the place
/ or premises wherein or wherein such
4 license is posted. AS there are about
i 100 federal licenses out in this state,
if they comply with the provisions of
1 this bill, the general fund of the yari-
4 Gus counties will receive something
/: like $4,000 in filing fees, and the Off
cial newspapers Of the state will have
quite a revenue through the publica-
ton provision, unless the peace off
GERS should get busy, which is very
likely to occur-with the information
such publicity would afford.
/ If this bill becomes a law and its
provisions can be enforced there is
3 little doubt but that the number OF
government licenses in this state
. would dwindle very materially Pub
licity of such matters would tend to
put quietus on blind pigism
!; The full text, of the bill is as fol
L 3 - E
:. lows:
"a Bill for an Act Providing for tbs
Publication and Registration of Spe
cial Tax Receipts or Licenses from
:, the Government of the United State:
to Sell Distilled, Malt and Ferment
ed Liquors, Issued to Persons il
North Dakota, the Payment AMI
Collection of Registration Fees ant
Publication Fees, Regulating thu
Posting and Exhibiting Of such Ia,
Receipts or Licenses, Prescribing
the Duties Of Ofhcials and Owner
and Lessons of Property in Relation
Thereto, Prescribing Penalties TO
Failure to Perform the Duties Pre-
scribed and Other Regulations Per
tanning to the Sale of Intoxicating
Liquors. 81. b
I BE it Enacted by the Legis1ariv,
! Assembly of the State of North Da
2 kota:
Section L Every receipt, stamp o
t license showing payment Of the spe
i cial tax evied under the laws Of th
p United States upon the business o
t selling distilled, malt or fermente,
f liquor, issued to or. held by any pei
& son, firm or corporation in this state
! shall be registered and published a
3 in this act required.
& aSec. 2. Immediately upon postinl
E Tor displaying the special tax receip
I or license mentioned in section o
: this act as required under govern
/, lment regulations, it shall be the dut;
i of the person in whose name such ia.
il receipt or license is issued, to cause t
= be published for three successiv
weeks In the official newspapers Q
i the county and for the same period i
Z the official newspaper of the city,
within an incorporated city, motto
which shall Contain the following IL
J. formation: Name Of person to Whor
! the government tax receipt or licens
is issued; date Of special tax receiI
or license; description OF propert
where said tax receipt or license
8 posted, and, II within an incorporate
city, the number of the lot and bloc
and street number and setting fort
specifically the room. building or plac
h where said tax receipt or license
+ posted; the name of the owner an
/ the name Of the lessor Of the propert
e In which said tax receipt or license ]
e posted. Upon continuance Of bus
ness or removal Of the special tax ri
ceipt or license mentioned In section
4 Of this act to another building q
g place, a similar notice containing th
Il information prescribed In this section