Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-22
LOCAL OPTION BILL
NUMBER TWO
GOES IN
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE HAS
MEASURE OF lTSOWN
Would Give County Commits
sionerS Full Power to Hold
Elections at viii in Entire
County or Any Precinct Of
Any County.

-.,a, pisnatch to the Morning journal. ]
santa Fe.. \. M, Jan. 2l.-As
ma heen anticipated. local option
Nm No. ? was introduced into
MN senate ana house today at the
reonest of the New Mexico branch OF
me %Anti-Saloon league, Rev. w. w.
uavcns. superintendent OF the league,
having arrived in Santa Fe this
morujng to push the measure. The
Nm varies widely from the CLANCY
Inn which was introduced Tuesday.
The latest local option bin gives coun-
~ commissioners power to call an
election at Will for the entire county
mr. any city or precinct therein. The
n~rincipal sections of the bin follow:
An act entitled AN act to provide %
method by which the question of
the prohibition of the sole of intoxi-
eating liquors, or local option, may
be submitted to the qualified voters
in any county, precinct, subdivision
Of a county, town OF city, in the tor
ritory Of New Mexico, ana for other
purposes
Be it enacted by the Legislative AS
sembly Of the Territory of New Mex
leo:
Section /. The board of county COM
missioners in each county in this ter
ritory, whenever they deem cXpedient,
may order an election, to be held by
the qualified voters of said county, or
Of any precinct, or such subdivision OF
a county as may be designated by the
hoard Of county commissioners Of said
county, or any town or city therein, to
determine whether or not the sale of
intoxicating liquors shall be prohib-
tied in said county, precinct or subdi-
vision Of such county. or in any town
or city. Provided, that it shall be the
duty Of said board of county commits
sioners to order the election aforesaid
whenever petitioned to do so by as
many as three hundred and fifty vot-
es in any county or fifty voters in
any precinct, or subdivision of such
county as may be designated by said
hoard Of county commissioners, or in
any own or city as the case may be.
And, provided, that il the precinct or
of such county embraces
within its limits an Incorporated town
or city, or portions thereof, then such
shan only be ordered when
qualified voters not less than ono
tenth in number of the total vote cast
for delegate to congress at the next
preceding general election in such in
corporatcd town or city, and in case
an election is asked for a subdivision
Of such county, the petition shall de-
scribe such subdivision by metes and
bounds, and the said petition and the
description of such subdivision shall
be recorded in full in the minutes of f
he board Of county commissioners, :
md such description shall be embrace
I'd in the notice given for such cleo )
non Provided, further, that no town
n city shall be divided in making :
'uch subdivision.
Sec. ?. The preceding section shall :
rot be construed so as to prohibit the '
ale of wine for sacramental purposes, !
nor alcoholic stimulants as medicine q
n case of actual sickness. Wine for +.
purposes shall only be :
old to ordained clergymen, known to ,
ne druggist or person selling the !
ylhe, as such. Provided, however, !
nat wine may also be sold for sacra- :
mental purposes only upon the writ .
eh order of ordained clergymen, and y
he druggist or person selling the :.
me shall be held responsible for the y
e%hulneness of the said written or :
Every ordained clergyman who =
ugs wine for sacramental purposes. I
= VINO gives a written order for wine y
VI sacramental purposes. must state J
yer ms signature the amount and :
ma OF wine needed, and that said !
me is to be used only for sacrament I
purposes. Every person selling !
nen wine for sacramento purposes, =
; herein provided, shall cancel such U
'dtement by endorsing thereon the [
.ora cancelled" and file said state
'ent away. Alcoholic stimulants as u
i0ul'lhe in cases of actual sickness '
ndii only be sold upon the written D
description of a regular practicing n
dated and signed by him. a
np certified on his homer, that he. c
q physician, has personally examin- a
: Tue applicant, naming him. and a
ne flnds him actually sick and in p
oil the stimulant prescribed as a
,"lclne- Provided, that a physician Il
y" does not follow the profession OF G
,''lhe as his principal and usual v
illlH. Ihnll not -. ~