The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-29
ONE TRANSFER FOR SALOONS
New Bill Which is Expected to be
Passed by the Legislature is Meeting
Favor Among Saloon Men-Provides
for Reducing Number c1 Saloons.


county, chairman of the State Affairs
committee of the state senate has taken
a crack at amending the Baker, law
governing the licensing of saloons In
the state and his proposed bill is now
being considered by the senate. 1t came
in as a panacea for all the wrongs of
the license statutes and it is said to be
pretty certain Of passage. The most
notable part Of the new proposed law
is the provision giving saloon men a
chance to secure one transfer Of license
during year. This is permitted on the
payment of twenty-five dollars. The
proposed law follows:
/. Licenses may be granted to resi-
dent citizens of the municipality where
in application is made to carry on the
retail traffic in spirituous, vinous,
malt, and intoxicating liquors at GER
tain designated locations in any town,
village, or city in this state wherein
such traffic is permitted by law.
9. Not more than one such location
shall be designated to each two hun
dred and fifty inhabitants or fraction
thereof in any such town, village, or
city.
3. Locations actually used in the re-
tail traffic in Intoxicating liquors and
for which license was in actual use on
May LIST, 1913, shall be continued and
Ientitled to renewal thereof in prefer
ence to any new location, if available
for such business and application is
made not less than forty five days
after the beginning of license year,
and such preference shall continue from
year to year if like application is made.
If application for license is not so
made and license is, after the expira-
ton Of forty-fve days from the be-
ginning of a license year granted to
some new location, such new location
shall thereafter have such preference.
4. If, on the first day of May, 1913,
more locations had been licensed in any
town, village, or city in this state to
conduct such business than would be
permissible under the foregoing limita-
ton of one such location to each two
hundred and fifty inhabitants or frac-
ton thereof, an equal number of loca-
tions may be thereafter licensed as ex-
listed on the above mentioned date and
retail licenses granted therefor, but no
more, until the increase in population
brings such town, village, or city with
in the foregoing limitation.
5. For the purpose of gradually re-
ducing the total number of locations
for which license may be granted IN
each town, village, or city wherein an
excess over one to each two hundred
and fifty inhabitants or fraction there
OF exists, the local licensing authorities
in any such town, village, or city are
hereby permitted at the beginning of
any one license year to eliminate or
refuse license to not to exceed ten per
cent of any then existing excess in Ii
censed locations until the total num-
Der Of locations for which license is
granted is brought to the limit of one to
each two hundred and fifty inhabitants
or fraction thereof.
s. In granting license, the location
at which such traffic was conducted on
the first day of May, 1913, if apphca-
cation is made therefor within forty
five days after the beginning Of Ii
cense year, shall be given preference,
and no license shall be granted for
new location, except when entitled
thereto by the population ratio estab-
lished under subsection two of section
one of this section, until after the ex-
piration of said forty-fve days.
z. One transfer of license issued
to any individual from one authorized
and existing location to another au-
thorized and existing location may be
granted upon the payment of trans
fer fee of twenty-five dollars during
any license year, but no transfer to a
new location shall be so granted.
s. If any icensee should die during
any license year, the administrator of
such deceased licensee may assign or
transfer his license, or if any icensee
should desire TO assign and transfer
his license during any license year, one
such assignment or transfer may be
made if the transferee or assignee is
otherwise acceptable to the licensing
authorities and fully complies with the
requirements Of law applicable to origi-
nal applicants and executes and deliv-
ers satisfactory bond. No such as
signment or transfer shall be permitted
unless fee Of twenty-five dollars is
paid therefor.
8. If the lessor Of any premises oc-
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