Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-06
PRESENT ORDINANCE AMEND
ED IN RELATION TO PER
SONS WHO ARE ON
BLACKLIST"
MAY BE $1,000 PER ANNUM
Names Of Inebriates to Be Posted
In All Places For Sale of Intoxi-
cants, and Proprietors Put Under
Additional Penalties For Violation
of Various Provisions.

AT the recent meeting of the city
council an ordinance was introduced
for the purpose of amending the
present city regulations governing
the sale and use of intoxicating liq-
uors. A higher license fee and more
restriction of interdicted or "black-
listed" persons form the principal
changes embodied. The essential
points of the new ordinance are as
follows:
The license fee has been raised
from $500 to $1,000 per annum, and
no license is to be issued for less
period than one year.
Manner of "Blacklisting."
Upon the written request of any
near relative or guardian of any per-
son who is an habitual drunkard, or
in the habit of becoming intoxicated,
or who is in the habit of drinking in
toxicating liquors to excess, or upon
the written request of the county
judge of Polk county, or any sheriff,
deputy sheriff or constable of said
county, or upon the written request
of any marshal or police officer, or of
the city attorney of Dallas, it shall
be the duty of the auditor and police
judge of the city to issue notices,
signed by him under the seal of the
city, directed to whom it NAV CON
cern, warning them against selling,
bartering, giving away, treating, or
in any manner disposing of any in
toxicating, spurious, malt or vinous
liquors or any hard cider to such
persons as may be named in the re-
quest above mentioned, and a copy
shall Immediately be served by the
marshal upon the proprietor of any
place selling such liquors.. All such
requests are to be placed on file in
the Office of the police judge and
shall be kept thereafter as public
records of the city.
Posting Names.
Upon receipt of such notice the
proprietors of the places under reg
ulatiOn are required to post the
name of the person barred. Failure |
to post the names as received is to
be punished by fine of not less than |
$25 nor more than 800, or by inn
in the city Jail not to
exceed 40 days. In the absence of
the proprietor, employees will be held
If any proprietor or employe Of a
saloon, etc, shall sell, give away or
otherwise dispose of such prohibited
liquors to any person on the black
list, they shall upon conviction, be
punished by a fine of not less than
$50 nor more than 800, or by inn
prisOnment in the city Jail not to
exceed 40 days; and in addition they
shall also forfeit their city license,
and the bond given to obtain such
license, regardless of whether or not
t is the first or second offense;
'and il shall not be a defense in a
under the provisions Of
his section of this ordinance that
he person to whom such liquor
hall be sold or disposed of is not an
labitual drunkard or in the habit of
becoming intoxicated, provided he
hall have been regularly black
isted.
Individuals Penalized.
It shall be unlawful for any per
on who has been blaeklisted to go
nto or loiter about any saloon or
imilar place, or ask for any intoxi-
ating liquor Violation Of this pro-
ision shall be punishable by a fine
f not less than $40 nor more than
80, or by Imprisonment in the city
all not to exceed 20 days, or by both
ueh fine and Imprisonment.
The posting of the notices shall be
eemed sufficient warning to the pub
&c at large, and any person who
rovides liquor to a blacklisted per-
on is punishable by a fine Of not
IS than s25 nor more than 500, OF
Y Imprisonment not to exceed 40