The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-10-29

on the INES involved.
Approved April Is, 1913.
TENTH PROPOSITION.
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.
House bill No. 10, enacted by Forty.
seventh General Assembly. Amending
the local option laws as to make the
counties the sole units to determine
whether or not Intoxicating Ifquors'
shall be sold, furnished given away
within their limits; taking away from
municipalities OF $500 population or
more the right to vote separately from
their respective counties; providing ad-
ditiOnal qualifications for judges Mt
local option elections and providing
that dramshop licenses shall not be
granted by the several county courts
after fling Of petition for local 0p.
ton election.
HOUSE BILL NO. 10.
An act to amend sections 1888. 724O. 7241.
7242, 7243 and 7244 of article III, of
chapter SO of the Revised Statutes Of
Missouri for the year 1903, entitled
Local option" and to repeal section
1888 of said article, with an emergency
clause.
Be It enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Missouri, as folloUs:
Section l. That section 1885, of article
III of chapter So OF the Revised Stat
utes of Missouri for the year 1909 be
amended by striking out the words
who shall reside outside the corporate
limits of any city or town having at
the time of such petition, population
of $500 inhabitants or more in the Sec
ond, third and fourth lines of said Sec
ton and by adding in the ninth line Of
said section between the word Sold
and the word within the words fur
nished or given away" and by striking
out the words Lying outside of such
corporate limits of such city or town.
in the tenth and eleventh lines of said
section; and by striking out the words
who is a resident of any incorporated
town having a population of $500 in
habitants or more, or in the severn
teenth, eighteenth and nineteenth lines
Of said section and by adding to said
section the words. provided, further.
that one-half of the judges in each pre-
cinct shall be for the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors. and one-half of said judges
against the sale of Intoxicating liquors."
SO as amended said section shall read as
follows:
Q Sec. 1888. Upon application by petition
signed by one-tenth of the qualified
voters of any county, who are qualified
in any county of this state, the county
court of such county shall order an
election to be held in such county at
the usual voting precincts for holding
any general election for state officers,
to take place within forty days after
the receipt of such petition, to deter
mine whether or not spirituous or in
toxicating liquors, including wine and
beer, shall be sold. furnished or given
away within the limits of such county.
Such election shall be conducted, the
returns thereof made and the results
thereof ascertained and determined, in
accordance in all respects with the laws
of this state governing general elections
for county officers, and the result thereof
shall be entered upon the records Of
such county court and the expenses Of
such election shall be paid out Of the
county treasury as in the case of cleo
tons for county officers; provided, that
at an election ordered under the provi-
sions of this section, no one shall be
entitled to vote who is not a qualified
voter Of such county, provided. that no
such election, held under the provisions
Of this article shall take place on any
general election day, or within sixty days
Of any general election held under the
Constitution and laws of this state SO
that elections as are held under this ar
ticle shall be special elections, and shall
be separate and distinct from any other
election whatever: provided, further, that
the county court shall determine the suf-
ficiency of the petition presented by the
poll books of the last previous general
election; provided, further, that one-half
for the sale Of intoxicating liquors and
one-half of said judges against the sale
Of Intoxicating liquors.
Sec. 2. That section 1899 of article III
Of chapter 63 Of the Revised Statutes
Of Missouri for the year 1909 be and
the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. That section 7240 Of article III
Of chapter 63 Of the Revised Statutes
Of Missouri for the year 1909 be amend
ed by striking out the words cor mu-
nicipal body in line five of said section
SO that said section shall read:
Sec. 7240. Notice of such election shall
be given by publication in some news
paper published in the county, and such
notice shall be published in such news
for-fuu ur1ssecuttve--v'eeae md
days next before such election, and
such other notice may be given as the
county court ordering such election may
think proper. in order to give general
publicity to the election.
Sec. 4. That section 7241 of article III
Of chapter So of the Revised Statutes
of Missouri for the year 1909 be amend
ed by striking out the words "Or mu-
nicfpal body" in the sixth and seventh
lines of said section, so that as amend
ed said section shall read as follows:
Sec. 7241. All persons voting at any
election held under the provisions Of
this article. who are against the sale
of intoxicating liquors, shall have writ
ten or printed on their ballots. against
the sale of Intoxicating liquors." and
all those who are in favor of the sale
of such intoxicating liquors shall have
written or printed on their ballots, for
the sale of Intoxicating liquors." pro-
vided, that if the county court ordering
such election deem it expedient they
may order that both the above sentences
to be used and voted at said election,
with the further instruction printed on
said tickets or ballots, erase the clause
you do not want
Sec 5. That section 1912 of article III
of chapter GO of the Revised Statutes Of
Missouri for the year 1909 be amended
by striking out the words 'or munich
pal body in the sixth line of said Sec
ton, and by striking out the words
such election in line fifteen of said
section and inserting in lieu thereof the
words "the filing of the petition for
such election and by striking out the
words, "of the municipal body orr in
line nineteen of said section. and by
striking out the words the municipal
body orr in line twenty-one of said Sec
ton, SO that as amended said section
shall read as follows:
Sec. 1912. If a majority of the votes
cast at such election be for the sale Of
intoxicating liquors such intoxicating
liquors may be sold under the pro-
visions of existing laws regulating the
sale thereof and the procuring of IL
cense for that purpose; and If a ma
iority of the votes cast at such election be
against the sale of intoxicating liquors.,
the county court ordering such election
shall publish the result of such election
once a week for four consecutive weeks in
which the
of election was published; and the provi-
sons of this article shall take effect and
be in force from and after the GATE OF me
last insertion of the publication last
above referred to; and provided further,
that 10 license to sell intoxioa ting liquors
of any description prohlbiled py TN inns ,i ar
Of publication last above mentloneo' ahu
provided further. that this article shall
any license issued before the day of the
filing of the petition for such election:
but such license may run unti the Gay
of its expiration and shall not be renew,
ed. The election in this article provided
for and the result thereof, may be con-
tested in the same manner as is now pro-
yided by law for the contest of the cleo
ton of county officers in this state by
any qualified voter Of the county IN Whlch
said local option election shall be held by
and which shall be brought against the
county holding such election. ..o, ,,r
of charter. SO of the Revised Statutes of
Missouri for the year 1909 be amended
by striking out the words lying out
side the corporate limits OF any city
or town having, at the date of such UGH
order of election, population OF 2,3oo
inhabitants or more, or city as the case
NAV be- in lines four, five. six and
seven, that when amended said sec
ton shall read as follows:
Sec 12i3. If a ma jority of the votes
cast at any election held under the pro-
visions of this article shall be ''against
the sale of Intoxicating liquors. it shall
NOT he lawful for any person within the
limits of such county to directly or indf-
rectly sell. give away or barter in any
manner whatever any kind of Intoxicating
liquors or beverage containing alcohol,
in any quantity whatever under the pen-
alties hereinafter prescribed.
of chapter 63 of the Revised Statutes. of
Missouri for the year 1909 be amended
nv striking out the words 'or city as
tLa "a sc may be-, in the fourth line Of