Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. 4O3, 81 Published July 10, 1907.
CHAPTER 632, LAWS OF 1907.

No. 4O3, ). Published july TO-, 1SUt.
CHAPTER 632, LAWS OF 1907.
AN ACT to amend section 1913, Of the
statutes, as amended relating to sale of
intoxicating liquors.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
Section l. Section 1548, of the statutes,
as amended by chapter 116, laws of 1899,
by chapter 20, laws Of 1905 and by chapter
385, laws of 1905, is amended to read /:
Section 1913. 1. Each town board, village
board and common council may grant IL
censes under the conditions and restrictions
in this chapter contained, to such person
as they deem proper to keep groceries,, sa-
looms or othey places within. their respective
towns villages or cities for the sale Of
strong, spirituous, malt, ardent or intoxi-
eating liquors.
2 The sum to be paid for such license
shall, (subject to the right to increase the
same, as in this chapter .provided) be, in
towns having within their boundaries no
city or village, incorporated or unlncor-
porated, with a population of FIVE hundred
or more, one hundred dollars, and in all
hundred dollars, except for registered phar-
nacists as in this chapter provided.
8. The application for any such license
shall be in writing, and shall state the kind
of license applied for and designate the
premises where such liquor shall be sold:
Ali such licenses shall remain In force until
the first Tuesday Of July next after the
granting thereof, unless sooner revoked by
the board or council granting the same ;
they shall be attested by the town, city or
village clerk, and shall not~be delivered un-
til the applicant shall produce and file with
the clerk a receipt showing the. payment
Of the sum required therefor to the proper
treasurer, and until the filing with the
clerk Of the bond provided for in section
1549.
4 All town and village boards and COM
mon councils or the duly authorized com
mittees Of such councils shall meet and be
in session on the third Monday of each
June, and from day to day thereafter so
long as it may be necessary, for the pur-
pose Of acting upon such applications as
may be presented to them confOrmably to
this chapter. The population or any city or
village shall be ascertained by the last pre-
ceding enumeration by the state or general
government.
g. From and after June 5Oth 1905, any
thing contained in any city charter to the
contrary Notwithstanding no such license
shall be granted to any person or persons
for the sale Of any such liquors in any
building, booth or other place for which a
license Is not in force on the Both day Of
June, 1905, within a distance of three hun
dred feet of any public or permanently
established parochfal school grounds, said
distance to be measured upon the streets
from the boundaries of the school grounds
Whenever after January list, 1908, a list
the children enrolled as pupils of any pub
lie school or permanently established paro-
chial school, together with a remonstrance
in writing. signed and acknowledged before
notary public by a majority Of such
parents and lawful guardians, is filed with
the city, village or town clerk as the case
may be- describing certain premises for
which a license had previously been is
sued within three hundred feet of the
grounds Of said public or parochial school
(the distance to be measured as aforesad)
and demanding that no license be granted
for the sale of intoxicating liquors on such
premises, no such license shall thereafter
be granted to any person for the sale Of
such liquors on such premises
6. lie foregoing provisions shall not ap-
ply t. drug stores, hotels nor restaurants
actually established and maintained as such
prior to February first, 1905. 1t shall be
as the case may be, to receive. file and
record such list and remonstrance.
z. Nor shall any such license be granted
for the sale of any such liquors within a
distance of two and one-half miles of the
grounds Of the Wisconsin veterans home In
the town Of Pennington, county of Wau-
paca, nor to any person who is the owner
or keeper, directly or indirectly, of house
Of ill-fame or house Of prostitution. Nor
shall any license be granted for the sale
of any such liquors to be drank on the
premises within a distance of three thou
sand two hundred feet of the main building
of any state university; provided, however,
that the common council of any city, in
which any such university may be located
may on the first Tuesday or July, 1907,
territory which may have been heretofore
licensed. but such license or licenses, lie SO
granted, shall expire on the first Tuesday
Of July, 1908, and thereafter no licenses
shall be issued to such place or places
Approved July 10, 1907,