Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-26
Initiative Measure No. 10.

Initiative Measure No. Is.
AN ACT relating to alcoholic liquor;
to remove burdensome restrictions
upon! the rights Of householders to
beverages for home consumption; to
authorize the manufacture and sale
o! malt liquor; to authorize the fur
ni i;al1a of alcoholic beverages to
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
licenses; declaring violations of such
restrictions to be misdemeanors, and
prescribing penalties therefor.
be 1t enacted by the People of the State
SECTION 1. That the people of this
homes by inquisitive searching to dis
visions that may be therein at any time,
nor required to obtain or pay for any
permit to purchase within the state
or import mp from without or to trans
homes or to keep on hand in their
homes any kind Of provisions for con-
sumption therein; and within the in
word provisions comprehends bever-
ages including spirituous, fermented,
and malt liquors. provided that this
SSCklOA Snalk 1lOL Ne construed TO Au-
thorize any family or Individual to
procure, transport, or keep on hand
any such beverages to be sold, or to
be disposed Of otherwise than by con-
sumption and use in customary and
ordinary housekeeping.
SEC. 2. That it shall be lawful for
any, person, firm or corporation, who
Of this act and who shall obser s.''t the
requirements and restrictions pre-
scribed in this act, to maintain and
operate a brewery within any incor-
ufacture malt liquor therein and to ex-
port keep In storage, cause the trans
portation, sell and dispose of the pro-
auctions OF such brewery, within this
state.
SEC. 8. That it shall be lawful for
any proprietor, lessee or manager of
a hotel within any Incorporated city in
number of sleeping rooms furnished
and kept for the accommodation of
travellers, and sotourners, who shall be
licensed under the provisions of this
ments and restrictions OF this act, to
supply to the guests of such hotel, in
due course of the business of such ho-
oe5er sP PaHerss fermented malt or
pensatlon therefor, and without OBJ
tanning or paying for any permit for
doing DONG SO, to import such beverages
sufficient quantities thereof to meet
the requirements of the business au-
thorized by this act. cause the same
to r be transported Isl by private or common
licensed pursuant to this act and to
purchase, cause to be transported and
keep on hand malt liquor manufactured
In s LICENSED r br e .s in this state
commissioners or other governing
body of each incorporated city in this
state, shall have, and are hereby grant
and power, in their discretion, to issue
licenses authorized by this act, but
subject to the conditions and restric-
tions prescribed by this act
Brewery licenses may be granted and
issued to the proprietor or lessee of any
brewery located within city whose
governing body shall issue the license,
a az aaal51g such proprietor or lessee
facture of NAL tliquor, and to export,
cause to be transported out of the state
Dy private or common carriers, to keep
dispose Of the same within this state.
Holders Of brewers licenses issued
anaef TINS act may employ selling
than the city in which his, their or it's
brewery. is situated, authorized to take
orders from pharmacists or druggists
use. and from licensed hotel-keepers for hotel
supplies, and from individuals for
nome 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
g s,.os body of the city in which
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-
lgnated in section of this act, stu
ated within the limits of the city whose
governing body issues the licenses to
sen and dispose of alcoholic beverages
SEC. S. That such license issued un-
der this act shall be for a period of
one year, and the licensees shall pay
therefor the amount of fees specified
IN thls section, in advance to the treas
urer OF the city, who shall pay ten
per cent thereof into the general fund
or the state treasury and ninety per
cent thereof into the general fund of
the city, and no part of such fees shall
be subject to reclamation by licensees
Inc amount of such license fees shall
be two thousand dollars for each brew
ers license; three hundred dollars for
each brewers selling. agent, and one
thousand dollars for each hotel LIQUOR
license.
SEC s. That licenses issued pursu-
ant to this act shall not be assignable
nor transferable. except that hotel IL
quor licenses shall be appurtenant to
the particular hotel designated there
by lease Of the business Of such hotel
the license may be assigned, with the
consent of the governing BODY grant.