Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-08-02
NEW RULES BY
EXCISE BOARD
Cannot Receive Second Ap-
pIicatien When First One
Has Been Refused.
ORDINANCE is ADVANCED
Passed on Second Reading
at Meeting Last Night
Transfers Requested.

Steps to enforce the law con-
cerning the sale of bottled spirit
uous drinks were taken at a regular
meeting of the Board Of Excise Com
missioners last night. New rules
of the board were adopted and an Or
dinance to amend an ordinance con-
cerning inns and taverns, beer sa-
looms and the sale Of intoxicating
drinks in this city, was passed on its
second reading. All applications up
for liquor licenses were granted,
with the exception of four, which
were laid over under the rules.
Do Not Agree.
Chief of Police Burke and the
excice commissioners do not seem
to agree upon complaints of some
saloonkeepers that bottlers are vio-
lating the law in selling In smaller
quantities than permitted to. Ex-
else Commissioner Henderson stated
at the meeting that there was a pro-
miscuous peddling OF bottled 3eer
contrary to law, which should be
stopped and he offered a motion that
bottlers be notified of section OF
the liquor ordinance concerning their
business and that copy of the same
| be sent to Chief of Police Burke,
which was seconded. Mr.. Hender-
| son said 1t was unfair that bottlers
could sell in small quantities for
$3.50 year, when saloonkeepers had
| to pay three times that for license
He said saloonkeepers had complain
ed that bottlers took wagon loads
of beer to factories and places about
the outsPirts of the city and sold
in small and large quantities. When
| the commissioner was asked after
the meeting what was the smallest
quantity bottlers could sell he
stated he did not know.
| What Chief Burke Says.
| Chief Burke declared this morn
| ing that If an investigation was
made, it would be seen that none Of
the bottlers were violating the law.
| He maintained that under an opinion
handed down by the county judge
and prosecutor, bottlers had the
right to peddle beer in bottles, SO
long as they did not sell less than
three bottles at time. He said they
must confine their business to with
in the limits of the community in
|
New Rules Adopted.
| Under the new rules of the excise
board adopted last night several new
features were introduced. The prin-
cipal one of these is to prevent the
( city clerk from receiving a second
application In case a license has
| been refused, until instructed by the
board and if an applicant for a new
license or for transfer Of an ex-
isting license has sold liquors In the
place for which a license is asked
| before the application is acted upon
| by the board, it will be considered
fit cause for refusal Of the appli
cation.
The rules, as adopted, follow:
/. The regular meetings of the
Board shall be held on the first
Thursday of each month at 500 p.
m.
2. Special meetings may be call
| ed at any time by the President or
at the request OF three commits
sioners.
3. The President shall be elected
at the regular meeting in January
and shall hold office for one year
or until his successor Is elected.
| 4. The President shall preside at
all meetings of the Board, appoint
all committees, sign all licenses
granted by the Board and shall act as
member of all committees, by virtue
of his office. In case of his absence
the Board shall choose a President
Pro Tenn.
| 5. Written notice of all business
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meetings shall be mailed to each
commissioner at least ten days be-
fore date of meeting.
| 6. Written notice of all special
meetings shall be given to each COM
missioner at least two days before
the date set for said meeting, no.
tice shall state the business for
which meeting is called and no bust
ness other than that for which meet
| ing is called shall be considered.
| 7. No license or transfer what
ever will be granted unless at reg
ular meeting of the Board or at
| time to which said regular meeting
has been adjourned; written notice
of all adjourned meetings shall be
given to each commissioner at least
two days before the date set for said
adjourned meeting.
8. 1t shall require majority vote
of the commissioners present to ad-
journ any regular, special or ad-
journed meeting of the Board.
8. Three members of the Board
shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of the business of the
Board.
10. No license shall be granted,
transferred or revoked except with
the concurrence of at least three
members of the Board.
II. Voting shall be by ballot.
70. For all applications for a
transfer from place to place, for a
new place or from one party to an
other In the same place, a license
will not be issued until the next
regular meeting following that at
which the application was placed
before the Board.
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