The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-12-14
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
Excerpts From the Prohibition Amend
msnt That Was Carried ct the
Recent Election.

Recent Election.
A prohibition district within thu
meaning Of this act and all other act,
regulating or prohibiting the traffic
in Intoxicating liquors shall be any
county or incorporated city or village
wherein the manufacture, sale, pos
session, keeping for sale, transporta
tion for sale or gift Of Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes is de
clared unlawful, whether such prohi
bition district be established by con
stitutiona1 amendment, legislative en-
actment, adoptiOns or provisions OF
the local option law or by refusal o,
municipal authorities or county com
missiOners to grant saloon license.
Covers Wide Range.
1t shall be unlawful for any person
firm, company or corporation, its off
GERS or agents, to sell, manufacture
or dispose of any Intoxicating liquor
or alcohol of any kind within a prohi.
bition district or have in his or its
possession or to transport any in.
toxicating liquor or alcohol within a
prohibition district unless the same
was procured and possessed and
transported under permit as herein
provided: urOvided that so long as
the manufacture of Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes shall
not be prohibited within the state by
the constitution or by general law
applicable by its t,rms to the state as
whole, it shall not be unlawful for
any person, company or corporation
to manufacture intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes in a prohibition
district for transportation. to and sale
outside of the prohibition district;
provided that nothing in this act shall
be construed to apply to the manu-
facture, transportation or sale Of
wood or denatured alcohol.
Before a pharmacist shall be au-
thorized to transport pure alcohol for
scientific or mechanical purposes or
for compounding or preparing medi
cines, as provided by this act, he shall
secure permit for that purpose from
the probate court.
1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son, owning, leasing or occupying or
in possession or in control Of any
premises, building, vehicle, car or
boat to knowingly permit thereon or
therein the manufacture, transporta-
tion, disposal or the keeping Of in
toxicating liquor with the intent to
manufacture, transport or dispose of
the same, in violation Of the provisions
Of this act.
As to Transporting.
1t shall be unlawful for any person
to import, ship, sell, transport, de-
liver, receive or have in possession
any intoxicating liquors except as in
this act provided.
Any person who shall, in a prohibi.
tion district, in any public place or in
or upon any passenger coach, street
car, boat or in or upon any other
vehicle commonly used for the trans
portion Of passengers, or in or
about any depot, platform or waiting
room, drink any Intoxicating liquor Of
any kind, or any person who shall be
drunk or intoxicated in any public or
private road or street, or in any pus-
senger coach, street ear or any public
place or building, or at any public
gathering, or any person who shall
be drunk or intoxicased and shall dis
turb the peace Of any person, shall be
guilty Of a misdemeanor.
Any person convicted Of violation of
any Of the provisions Of this act where
the punishment thereof is net herein
specifically provided, shall be punished
By fine Of not less than $50 nor more
thaan $500 and by imprisonment in the
county Jail for not less htan 30 days
lor more than six months.
The law also provides thaat any per.
NON convicted Of any violations Of the
vet more than once will be considered
4 persistent violatcr and will b: deemed
guilty Of felony and sentenced to the
stAte prison Tor from one to two years,
Pharmacists who disregard the lew, in
addition to being penalized by fines and
will suffer the revocation
If their license.
Special Provisions.
Special provisions are made for the
manufacture end sale Of |
vine for sacramentel purpcscs. For the |
Importation, sale O. possession of wine
'or sacramental purposes and alcohol !
'pecia permits must be obtained from
he probate court and must be cancelled |
he moment the liquor is delivered. Pur. |
'hasers likewise must be equipped with |
PERMITS from the probate court, as we'll ]
Is those who transport the liquors.
The forms of such permits are pre-.
'cribed in the act. Shipment to false |
" fictitious names or applications for
permits under false or fictitious names J