The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-10-21

entitled EXCISE ana SAFE Oh lHIoAlCdC-
ing liquors" and to create sections
1861 to 1922, inclusive, OF the
statutes, relating to intoxicating IL
quors, to provide for the enforcement
of Article 10 of the Constitution of
the United States, providing penal
ties, making an appropriation and
defining intoxicating liquor.
The people of the State OF Wis
consin. represented in senate and as
sembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter &c of the
statutes of Wisconsin for 1917 en-
titled Excise and the sale OF in
toxicating liquors" is hereby sus-
pended and declared to be imperative
so long as this act shall be and re-
main in force and effect.
SECTION 2. Twenty-Five new
sections are added to the statutes to
read: Section 1569-1.. After this
act becomes operative, the manu-
facture, sale or transportation OF in
toxicating liquors, as herein defined,
within, the importation thereof into,
or the expectation thereof from the
state Of WISCONSIN, except as may
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prohibited.
Section 1862. This act shall
be deemed to be an exercise OF the
power reserved by and granted to
this state by Article Is of the con-
stitution of the United States.
Section 1868. Intoxicating IL
quor, within the purview of said con-
stitutional amendment and the provi-
sions of said constitutional amend
ment and the provisions of this act
shall be construed to be and include
all liquors and drinks of whatsoever
name or description, including patent
or proprietary medicines, capable of
being used as beverage containing
more than two and one-half per
centum of alcohol by weight at sixty
degrees Fahrenheit. But if the Con-
gress of the United States shall here
after by valid act which shall be-
come the law of the land and be
paramount to any state laws on the
subject, define the words "intoxicat-
ing liquors" as used in article Is of
the constitution of the United States,
then such definition, from the time
such act of congress becomes opera
tive, shall be the definition thereof
under this subdivision.
Section 1864. Pure grain alco-
hol, wines and other liquors, con-
tanning more than two and one-half
percentum of alcohol by weight, may
be manufactured in or imported into
or exported from this state for medi-
cinal, mechanical scientific and
-acramental purposes and sold for
such purposes only and may be SO
sold as herein provided and not other
wise. Denatured alcohol may be freely
manufactured and sold. nrovided rs
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 1868. There is hereby
created the Office of Prohibition Com
missioner" On or before the six
teenth day of January, 1920, the
governor shall, by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, appoint a
suitable person as such prohibition
commissioner. Such prohibition COM
missioner 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 until his successor
shall be appointed. Any vacancy oc-
curing in said office shall likewise
be filled by executive appointment
Said prohibition commissioner shall
receive salary of four thousand
dollars per year and his actual and
necessary expenses incurred in the
discharge of his duties. He shall
take and subscribe the constitutional
oath of office 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 governor. Such prohibition com
missioner may appoint necessary de-
puties, to be known and designated as
Deputy Prohibition Commissioners, ,
and may employ all necessary clerks
and fix the compensation and remun-
GRAFTON of al such deputies and clerks
SO appointed and file all such. APP
pointments, together with state
ment showing the compensation or
salary so fixed, prior to the employee
or appointee entering upon his duties
or employment, with the secretary of
state; and such appointee or employe
shall receive the compensation so fix
ed, to be audited, allowed and paid
on the certificate fthe prohibition
commissioner in the same manner as
salaries and compensations are now
allowed and paid to state officials
and employees. The prohibition
commissioner shall have and possess
suitable official seal, and all permits
issued by him under the provisions of
this act shall have affixed thereto a
clear impression of said official seal.
Other documents may be authemti-
Gated by printed copy of the impress
sion of said official seal. Said deputies
may perform all or any of the duties
herein provided to be performed by
the prohibition commissioner. All
such deputies shall file such bond as
the prohibition commissioner shall
require, to be approved by the pro-
hibition commissioner. 1t shall be
the duty of the prohibition commits
sioner to exercise and perform all the
duties and acts required of him by
this act. For failure to perform
such duties he shall be subject to re-
moval by the governor, for cause, up
on due notice and an opportunity to
defend.
Section 1866. It shall be the
duty of all district attorneys, sheriffs,
deputy sheriffs' constables and other
executive law: enforcement officers to