Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-20

ton of the submission of said PROPOSE
ton to the voters of such political sub
division shall likewise be made in the
manner provided by law for the pub
LEGATION of the list of nominations to
be voted for at an election: Provided,
that the failure of such clerk to cause
such notice to be given, or the failure
to make publication of the submission
of said proposition as above provided,
shall not affect the validity or bind
ing force of the vote upon said prop
Osition.
The clerk with whom any petition
shall be filed as provided by this Act
shall cause said proposition to be plain
| ly printed upon all the ballots to be
used at the next election of officers in
the political subdivision named in such
petition and below the list of candi-
| dates named thereon, as follows:
Shall this ....... Clown, precinct,
city or village, as the ease may be) be
come anti-saloon territory7 Yes. No.
Ballots and Their Canvass.
At the canvass of the ballots in each
polling place where said proposition is
| submitted, it shall be the duty of the
| Judges of election to admit to the room
at such polling place, as special watch
ers of such canvass, one legal voter
selected by the persons managing the
interests CT those in favor of and one
selected by the persons managing the
interests of those opposed to said prop
ostion, provided such legal voters
shall be of good character and sober
| and shall in no wise interfere with
such canvass, and said judges and the
| police officers and other officers of the
law shall protect such watchers and
see that they are not excluded and at
the time of such canvass of the ballots
cast upon said proposition, such watch
ers shall be entitled to a position where
they can plainly see and read each bal
lot and it shall be the duty of such
judges to protect them in such posi-
ton. Wherever any other method of
taking and recording votes at elections
than by means of printed ballots i.
provided by law the procedure for tax
ing and recording the votes upon said
proposition may conform to the method
so provided.
Endurance of the Decision.
All the territory within any political
subdivision which has become anti-sa
loon territory shall continue to be an
.i-saloon territory throughout it's entire
extent, Notwithstanding any change
which may be made in the limits of
any such political subdivision, until ;he
legal voters thereof have voted, &C.
eording TO provisions of this Act, to
discontinue such anti saloon territory.
In all anti-saloOn territory, during the
time that it continues to be anti-saloon
Territory, the operation of all ordi-
rances providing for the restriction,
regulation or prohibition of the sale of
Intoxicating liquor or for the issuing
of dram shop licenses within any por-
ton or the whole of such territory, so
far as inconsistent with its status as
anti-saloOn territory, shall be sus-
pended.
The procedure for obtaining a vote
on the question of returning to the
status of saloon territory is the same
as for becoming anti-saloon territory,
/
this .......... political subdivision
or district) continue to be anti-saloon
iterritorya
A vote on either of the propositions
Ito become anti-saloon territory or to
Icontinue to be anti-saloon territory
is made bar TO the submission to the
voters of either of these propositions
until after lapse of eighteen months.
In Relation to Druggists.
Nothing in this Act shall be
8, construed to forbid or prevent the
sale within anti-saloon territory by
druggists to whom permits or licenses
therefor have been duly granted in the
manner provided by law, of liquor
for medicinal, mechanical, sacramental
and chemical purposes only, not to be
drunk upon the premises under any
circumstances, so long as such druggist
in good faith shall keep true and an
exact record in a book, which he shall
provide for the purpose, in which shall
be entered at the time of every sale of
Intoxicating liquor made by him or in