The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-10-07
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NOTICE
of
pEEERENDJIM Fl ECTION

REFERENDUM Ell ECTION
TO BE HELD
NOVEMBER 2. 1920.
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC.
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT
(sMULBERGER BILLY
State of Wisconsin,
Department of State,
City of Madison.-ss
/, MERLIN HULL, Secretary OF
State of the State of Wisconsin, dc
hereby certify that the following Law
is to be submitted to vote of the
people at General election to be
held in the several cities, towns, vii
lagos and election, precincts of the
State of Wisconsin on the first
Tuesday OF November, 1920, being
the second day of said month.
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CHAPTER $50, LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT To suspend the operation
of chapter Sc of the statutes of 1917
entitled Excise and sale of int0xicat-
ing liquors" and to create sections
1861 to 1862, inclusive, of the
statutes, relating to intoxicating Ii
quors, to provide for the enforcement
of Article 18 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 Sc 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 1861. 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
be herein or hereafter provided, is
prohibited.
Section 1862. This act shall
be deemed to be an exercise of the
power reserved by and granted to
this state by Article 18 of the con-
stltution of the United States.
Section 1858. Intoxicating Ii
quor, within the puryiew of said con-
stitutioral amendment and the provi-
sions of said constitutional amend
rnent 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 a 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 10 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
sacramento purposes and sold for
such purposes only and may be so
sold as herein provided and not other
wise. Denatured alcohol may be freely