The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-07
cHAPTER b6e. LAWS oF 151a

AN ACT to suspend the operation OF cnap-
ter &C of the statutes of A19l7 entitled
Excise and the sale of Intoxicating liquors"
and to create sections 1851 to 1862,
inclusive, of the statutes, relating to in
toxicating liquors, to provide for the en-
forcement of Article 10 of the Constitution
Of the United States, providing penalties,
making an appropriation and defining in
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented IN senate and assembly, do enact
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SECTION 1. Chapter 66 of the statutes
of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled Excise and
the sale of intoxicating 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 to read: Section
1861. After this act becomes operative,
the manufacture, sale or transportation of
intoxicating liquors, as herein defined,
Within the importation thereof into. the
expectation thereof from the state of Wis
consin, except as may be herein or here
after provided, is hereby 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 constitution of the United States.
Section 1868 Intoxicating liquor, with
in the purview of said constitutional amend
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 con-
tanning more than two and one-half per
oentum of alcohol by weight at sixty de-
Rrees 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 any state laws on the
subject, define the words Intoxicating
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stitution of the United States, then such
definition, from the time such act of con-
Fress becomes operative, shall be the defini-
ton thereof under this subdivision.
Section 1860. Pure grain alcohol.
wines and other liquors, containing more
than two and one-half per centum of alco-
hol by weight, may be manufactured in or
imported into or exported from this state
for medicinal, mechanical scientific and
lacramental purposes and sold for such pur-
poses only and may be sold as herein pro-
vided and not otherwise. Denatured alcohol
may be freely manufactured and Sold pro-
vided its manufacture complies strictly with
the laws now or hereafter enacted by Con-
gress relative thereto and the rules and
regulations issued by the department of
internal revenue
Section 1865. 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
advice and consent of the senate. appoint a
suitable person as such prohibition commits
sioner Such prohibition 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 until his successor shall be
APPOINTED. Any vacancy occurring in said
Office shall likewise be filled by executive
appointment. Said prohibition commissions
or shall receive a salary of four thousand
dollars per year and his actual and neces-
sary 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 du-
ties, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dol
lars, which shall be approved by the gov
ernor. Such prohibition commissioner may
appoint necessary deputies, to be known
and designated as Deputy Prohibition Com
missioners, and may employ all necessary
clerks and fix the compensation and re-
Enumeration of all such deputies and clerks
so appointed and file all such appointments,
together with a statement showing the COM
pensation or salary so fixed, prior to the
enploye or appointee entering upon his du-
ties or employment, with the secretary of
state; and such appointee or employee shall
receive the compensation so fixed, to be
audited, allowed and paid on, the certificate
of the prohibition commissioner in the same
manner as salaries and compensations are
employees. The prohibition commissioner
shall have and possess a 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 authenticated
by printed copy of the impression 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
he approved by the prohibition commissioner.
It shall be the duty of the prohibition COM
missioner to exercise and perform all the
duties and acts required of him by this act.
For failure to perform such duties he shall
he subject to removal by the governor, upon
due notice and an opportunity to defend.
Section 1865. It shall be the duty Of
ell district attorneys, sheriffs, deputy sher-
ifs constables and other executive law en-
forcement officers to aid and assist said
the enforcement of the provisions of this act
Section 1867. 1t shall be the duty Of
the prohibition commissioner to designate
and issue a permit (Which permit may be
revoked for cRuse) to one or more persons
in each municipality in this state who shall
be authorized to have in possession and sell
under such general rules and regulations as
he may prescribe, alcohol, vinous spiritu-
aus or malt liquors containing in excess Of
two and one-half percentum of alcohol by
weight 10 be used exclusively for medicinal