Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-03-29

election snail nave voted In FAVOR OF
the sale OF intoxicating liquor within
the unit in which the election was
held, the sale Of intoxicating liquor
may be continued under license as
heretofore, II it was heretofore IL
censed and sold within such unit:
Provided, That no license for the
sale Of intoxicating liquors shall be
granted to any person who Is not
Of good moral character and is not
citizen of the United States; and II
the sale Of intoxicating liquor was
not Heretofore licensed within such
unit, 1t shall be within the power Of
the city or town council or of the
board Of county commissioners. act
ing within the provisions and re-
Quirements of state laws or city or
town charters, as the case may be,
to issue licenses for the sale Of intox-
icating liquor within such unit. but
such licenses shall not be granted
to be in force earlier than January
LIST following the vote at general
county election. II the majority Of
the qualified electors voting on such
question at any such election shall
have failed to vote For license" the
same shall be conclusive evidence
that the political unit to which such
vote was applicable has voted against
the sale Of Intoxicating liquors with
IN such unit, and. thereupon, ninety
days after the day Of such election.
in the case Of a special election, and
on the first day Of January following
any general county election at which
a vote has been taken under this
act. such result shall become opera
tive, and no intoxicating liquor, save
as hereinafter provided, shall be sold
within that unit until permission so
to do be granted at an election held
for that purpose under the provis-
ions Of this act. When majority OF
the qualified electors in any unit
wherein intoxicating liquor has
Heretofore been sold and licenses
have been issued by the city council
or by the board Of county commits
sioners under existing laws, shall fail
to vote in favor of the sale of intoX-
icating liquor within such unit. upon
such vote becoming operative as
herein provided, the city or town
council or the board of county COM
missioners, as the case may be. shall
return to each person holding
valid, unexpired license for the sale
Of intoxicating liquor ninety per cent
of the unearned portion of the IL
cense fee which shall have been paid
to such city, town or county.
Sec. Z. At any election which
shall be held under this act on the
day of the general county election
there may be submitted to the quail
fed electors of any unit the question
whether the sale of intoxicating IL
quor shall be licensed and permitted
therein. The method of procuring
the submission of such question at
any such election shall be the same
as that prescribed for procuring the
submission of such question at the
special election hereinbefore provid-
ed for, and all provisions DIS 10 the
manner of holding the special cleo
ton, the ballots. the manner of
counting the votes, the return and
canvass shall so far as applica BILE.
govern in the submission of such
question at the general election. The
petition for the submission of such
state the general election ar which
it is to be submitted. The ballot to
be voted upon that question shall be
a separate ballot, but the election OF.
ficers acting at the general election
shall act as the election officers upon
the election on the submission of
such question, but they shall keep
the ballots cast on such question in
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separate canvass and return of the
vote on that question, as though the
vote were at a special election: Pro-
vided. however. That where am spe-
cial election is held as hereinbefore
provided. the question ma &c ~
submitted at 4 general election prior
to the time provided in section .
hereof. The result of the vote upon
the question OF licensing u -~,- Il
intoxicating liquor at any general
and shall have the same effect as
hereinbefore prescribed in the case
OF SPECIAL election.
Sec. S. 1t shall be the duty Of the
city or town clerk or the county au-
ditor, as the case may be, TO furnish
gu RNtitCt 'D-NNo' JANUS, pom D''b+N
and other necessary supplies for the
holding of any special or general
election hereunder. and the expense
thereof, as well as the expenses of
the election officers and other neces-
sary expenses of the election, includ-
ing all official publications herein re-
CURED, and shall be paid in the same
manner that the expenses of general
elections in any such city, town or
county are paid. Voters at any such
election shall have the same quail
tfcations as voters at general cleo
tions, and the city clerk shall furn-
ish to the election officers registra-
ton books showing the names Of
persons who are registered to vote
thereat.
Sec. 9. Whenever a majority Of
the qualified electors voting upon
said question in any unit hereinbe-
fore created, at an election held for
that purpose, shall have failed to
vote 'for license" and it shall there
by have been decided by said vote
that intoxicating liquor shall not
thereafter be sold within that unit,
and the city or town clerk or county
auditor, as the case may be. shall
have made public certificate of the
Of aIa