Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-02
Initiative Measure No. 10.

Initiative Measure No. 10.
AN ACT relating to alcoholic liquor;
to remove burdensome restrictions
upon the rights of householders to
purchase and keep on band alcoholic
beverages for home consumption; to
authorize the manufacture and sale
OF malt liquor; to authorize the fur
nishing of alcoholic beverages to
guests in hotels; to authorize The
granting. of licenses to brewers, to
their selling agents. and to hotel
keepers; to restrict and regulate the
business to be carried on under such
restrictions to be misdemeanors. and
prescribing penalties therefor.
Be it enacted by the People of the State
of Washington:
state shall not be molested in their
homes by inquisitive searching to dis
cover the kinds and quantities of pro-
visions that may be therein at any time,
permit to purchase, within the state
or import from without or to trans
port or cause to be transported to their
homes. any kind Of provisions for con
sumption therein; and within the in
tent. and meaning of this section the
word provisions comprehends bever-
section shall not be construed to au-
thorize any family or individual to
procure, transport, or keep on hand
be disposed of otherwise than by con-
sumption and use in customary and
ordinary housekeeping.
any, person, firm or corporation, who
shall be licensed under the provisions
of this act and who shall observe the
reauirements and restrictions. pre-
operate a brewery within any incor-
porated city in this state, and to man
ufacture malt liquor therein and to ex-
sell a an If me the
auctions of such brewery, within this
state.
SEC. 8. That it shall be lawful for
a hotel within any incorporated city in
this state having fifty or any greater
number of sleeping rooms furnished
and kept for the accommodation of
licensed under the provisions of this
act and who shall observe the require
ments and restrictions of this act, to
due course of the business of such ho-
tel, spirituous, fermented, malt or
other BEVERAGES, and to receive COM
+i1;a therefor, and without. OBJ
from without the state, keep on hand
SUI thereof to
thorized by this act cause the same
to be transported by private or common
carriers to and delivered at hotels
licensed pursuant to this act and to
purchase, cause to be transported and
in licensed breweries in this state. ~
SEC. 4: That the mayor and council,
S conn ns or en or other governing
state, shall have, and are hereby grant
ed the sole and exclusive authority
and power, in their discretion, to issue
subject to the conditions and restric-
lions prescribed by this act.
Brewery licenses may be granted and
issued to the proprietor or lessee of any
governing body shall issue the license
authorizing such proprietor or lessee
to operate such brewery in the manu-
facture of NAL tliquor, and to export,
cause to be transported out of the state
by private or common carriers, to keep
in storage the malt liquors manufac-
tured in such brewery, and sell and
Holders of brewers licenses issued
under this act may employ selling
agents. in any Incorporated city other
than the city in which his, their or it's
orders from pharmacists or druggists
for malt liquor prepared for medicinal
use, and from licensed hotel-keepers for hotel
SuppllOS' anu from individuals FOR
home consumption, and to deliver the
goods ordered to the respective pur-
chasers: Provided, That every such
agent must be licensed by the mayor
and council commissioners or other
governing body of the city in which
such agency is to be maintained, and
the governing body of such city may
grant or withhold such license in their
discretion.
Hotel liquor licenses may be granted
and issued to the proprietor, lessee or
manager of any hotel in the class des-
ignated in section 3 of this act, stu
ated within the limits of the city whose
governing body issues the licenses to
sell and dispose Of alcoholic beverages
SEC. 5. That such license issued un-
der this act shall be for a period of
one year, and the licensees shall paw
therefor the amount of fees specified
in this section, in advance to the treas
urer of the city. who shall pay ten
per cent thereof into the general fund
cent thereof into the general fund of
the city, and no part of such fees shall
be subject to reclamation by licensees
The amount of such license fees shall
pc TWO thousand dollars for each brew
er's license; three hundred dollars for
each brewers selling agent, and one
thousand dollars for each hotel Iionor
license.
SEC. 6. That licenses issued pursu-
ant to this act. shall not be assgnable
nor transferable, except that hotel Ii
quor licenses shall be appurtenant to
the particular hotel designated there
IN and in case of sale or transfer
by lease of the business of such hotel
consent of the governing body grant