Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-10-28
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION on the PROHIBITION EN-
FORCEMENT ACT
HEMuIhprppr Bid

FORCEMENT ACT.
C''Mulberger BilD
STATE OF WISCONSIN, Depart
ment of State, City of Madison-ss.
I. MERLIN HULL, Secretary OF
State of the State of Wisconsin. DO
hereby certify that the following
law is to be submitted to a vote OF
the people at General election to
he held in the several cities, towns,
villages and election precincts of the
State of Wisconsin on the first Tues
dav of November, 1920, being the
second day of said month.
mo. 146, S. ]
CHAPTER 556, LAWS OF 1919,
AN ACT To suspend the operation
of chapter Sc of the statutes OF 1911
entitled Excise and the sale OF IN
toxicating liquors" and to create sec
tions 1861 to 1569-22, lncluS-
i've. of the statutes, relating 10 IN
toxicating liquors, to provide Tor the
enforcement of Article Is of the Con-
stitntion Of the United States, pro-
vidino penalties making an appro-
nriation and defining intoxicating
liquor. ,.a,
The people Of the State of Wiscon-
sin. represented in senate ana as
semblv do enact as follows:
SECTION /. Chapter 66 OF the
statutes of Wisconsin for 1917 en-
titled Excise and the sale Of 1nto1-
icating liquors" is hereby suspended
and declared to be imperative SO
long as this act shall be and remain
IN force and effect
SECTION 2. twenty-five new
SECTIONS are added to the statutes 10
read. Section 1861. After tnls
act becomes operative the manuIac-
ture. sale or transportation OF III
toxicating liquors, as herein dehneo'
within the importation thereon lnto'
mr. the expectation thereof from the
state Of wisconsin, except as may pc
herein or hereafter provided, is mere
by prohibited.
Section 1853 2. This act shall
he deemed to be an exercise of the
mower reserved by and granted to
this state by Article Is of the con-
stitution of the United States.
Section 1868. intoxicating LID
nor. within the purview of said con-
c+itutional amendment and the pro-
visions of this act shall be construed
to he and include all liquors ana
drinks of whatsoever name or de-
scription, including patent or propfl-
etarv medicines, capable OF belng
used as a beverage containing more
than two and one-half per centum
of CT degrees
Fahrenheit But if the Congress OF
the United States shall hereafter by
a valid act which shall become the
law Of the land and be paramount TO
anv state laws on the subject, define
the words Intoxicating liquors" as
used in article IS of the constltu-
tion Of the United States, then such
definition from the time such act or
congress becomes operative, snail
he the definition thereof under this
subdivision.
Section 1863 4. Pure grain alco-
hol wines and other liquors, contain
ing more than two and one-half per
centum of alcohol by weight, may be
manufactured in or imported into or
exported from this state for medic
inal, mechanical, scientific and sac
ramental purposes and sold Tor such
purposes only and may be so sold as
herein provided and not otherwise.
Denatured alcohol may be freely
manufactured and sold, provided its
manufacture complies strictly with
the laws now or hereafter enacted
by Congress relative thereto and the
rules and regulations issued by the
department Of internal revenue.
Section 1863 5. There is hereby
created the office of prohibition
Commissioner" On or before the
sixteenth day of January, 1920, the
governor shall, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, ap-
point suitable person as such pro-
hibition commissioner. Such pro-
hibition commissioner shall have his
office in the capitol, at Madison, to
be provided at public expense, and
such officer shall hold his office for
the term of four years from and after
the date of his appointment and I'M
til his successor shall be appointed.
Any vacancy occurring in said Of
flee shall likewise be filled by exec
utive appointment. Said prohibition
commissioner shall receive a salary
of four thousand dollars per year
and his actual and necessary ex-
penses incurred in the discharge of
his duties. He shall take and sub
scribe the constitutional oath Of Of
flee and file a bond, for the faithful
discharge of his official duties, in the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars,
which shall be approved by the gov
ernor. Such prohibition commits
sioner may appoint necessary depu-
ties, to be known and designated as
Deputy Prohibition Commissioner"
and may employ all necessary clerks
and fix the compensation and remu-
neration of all such deputies and
clerks so appointed and file all such
appointments, together with state
ment showing the compensation or
salary so fixed, prior to the employe
or appointee entering upon his duties
or employment, with the secretary Of
state; and such appointee or en-
ploye shall receive the compensation
so fixed, to be audited, allowed and
paid on the certificate of the prohi-
hilton commits ciOnpr in the Same man.