The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-15
VILLAGE TRUSTEES
FIX PRICES OF
LICENSES
Special Meeting Held For That
Purpose Last Evening
TO RAISE PRICES OF GAS
o. M. Barber Appears Before Board
in Interest Of Local Corpora
tion-Rate Now Too Low

The village trustees at a special
meeting called for the purpose We'd
nesday evening established license
fees in accordance with the ordinance
enacted at the special village meeting
at Library hall in the afternoon. The
fees are as follows.
For licenses of the first class, to
sell intoxicating liquor to be drunk
on the premises. 5000.
For the second class, to sell intoxi-
eating liquor not to be drunk on the
premises. $500.
For the third class, malt liquors
! and wines to be drunk on the
premises, 800.
For the fourth class. to wholesale
intoxicating liquors, 500.
For the fifth class, druggists H.
cense, So.
For the sixth class. summer hotel
| license, to be fixed pro rata according
to the length of time in force on the
basis of the first class.
For the seventh class, malt liquors
premises. 800
The ordinance adopted at the vii
lage meeting during the afternoon
reads as follows:
mo person shall furnish or sell or
expose or keep with intent to sell any
intoxicating liquor without having
first obtained license therefor and
! procured the same to be recorded in
the village clerks office and paid the
fee OF one dollar to said clerk for re-
cording the same. Said licenses stall
be classified according 20 the classi-
( fications made in chapter &l9 of the
public statutes of Vermont or amend
ments thereto. The fee for each of
said licenses shall not Re more than
( $500 or less than So and shall be an
nually fixed and determined by the
| trustees.
"All licenses granted undar this
section shall expire al the date fixed
by the statutes of Vermont for the ex.
piration of the same class issued un.
der the authority Of the state to per
sons licensed to sell Intoxicating liz.
uors.
ANY person violating the provis-
ions of this section shall be fined 500
to the use of said village"
AT the village meeting Village AT.
torney Meagher at the request of the
trustees introduced several amend
ments to the village bylaws bearing
upon the subject of local licenses to
itinerant peddlars, restaurants, bill
lard rooms, etc, I'M order to secure
harmony in these regulations. There
was a lengthy discussion on some fea
lures of these amendments particular
ly upon that relating to the revoking
of licenses. E. ] Hall wished TO
amend so that the action should be
arbitrary instead of discretionary on
the part OF the trustees and in this
/ contention he was supported by w. b.
| Sheldon. Mr. Halls amendment was.
however, dismissed.
No definite action was taken at the
meeting of the trustees upon the ped
dlar's restaurant and other licenses of
a similar nature Another special
meeting will be held in the near fu-
ture to take action on these matters.
o. NJ. Barber appeared before the
board in the interests of the Benning-
ton Gaslight company which proposes
to raise the price of gas to S1.90 a
thousand feet with certain discounts
| for payment of monthly bills within
certain number of days and to users
of large quantities. Mr.. Barber stat
ed that it was impossible for the COM
pany to continue to furnish gas at
the present rate and gave facts and
figures to substantiate the contention.
| The trustees were in doubt as to their
authority in the matter and it was
referred to the village attorney.
Chairman Frank E. Battles appear
ed before the board and made tue sug-
gestion that in the fixing of the lie
ense fee to the second class liquor
dealers the price be made $500. Mr..
Battles gave as his reasons for the
suggestion the loss of business that
! will be sustained by the second class