Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-10-07
Notice of Referendum
Election to e held
Nov. ?, 1920.
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TON ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
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State of Wisconsin, Department of
State, City of Madison-ss.
/, 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 peo
pie at General election to be held in
the several cities, towns, villages and
election precincts of the State of Wis
consin on the first Tuesday of Novem-
Der, 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 the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors" and to create sections
1861 to 1862, inclusive, of the
statutes, relating to Intoxicating
liquors, to provide for the enforcement
of Article IS of the Constitution of the
United States, providing penalties,
making an appropriation and defining
intoxicating liquor.
The people of the State of Wiscon-
sin, represented in senate and assem-
bly,, do enact as follows:
Section I. Chapter So of the stat
utes of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled
Excise and the sale of intoxicating
liquors" is hereby suspended and de-
clared to be imperative so long as this
act shall be and remain in force ard
effect.
Section 2. twenty-five new sections
are added to the statutes to read: Sec
ton 1861. After this act becomes
operative, the manufacture, sale or
transportation of intoxicating liquors,
as herein defined, within, the importa-
ton thereof into, or the expectation
thereof from the state of Wisconsin,
except as may be herein or hereafter
provided, is hereby prohibited.
Section 1863 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,
within the purview of said constitu-
tional amendment and the provisions
of this act shall be construed to be
and include all liquors and drinks of
whatsoever name or description, in
Guiding patent or proprietary medi-
cines, capable of being used as a bev-
.erage containing more than two and
0ne-half per centum of alcohol by
weight at so 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 any state laws on
the subject, define the words 'intoxi-
eating liquors" as used in article IS
of the constitution of the United
States, then such definition, from the
time such act of congress becomes OPP
erative, shall be the definition thereof
under this subdivision.
Section 1864 Pure grain alcohol,
wines and other liquors, containing
more than two and one-half percentum
of alcohol by weight, may be manu-
featured in or imported into or ex
ported from this state for medicinal,
mechanical, scientific and sacramento
purposes and sold for such purposes
only and may be SO sold as herein pro-
yided and not otherwise. Denatured
alcohol may be freely manufactured
and sold, provided it's manufacture
complies strictly with the laws now
or hereafter enacted by Congress rela-
tive thereto and the rules and reguia-
lions issued by the department of in
ternal revenue
Section 1865. There is hereby
created the office of Prohibition Com
missioner" On or before the six
teenth day of January, 1920, the COVER
nor shall, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, appoint suit
able person as such prohibition COM
missioner. Such prohibition commits
siOner shall have his Office in the CAPT
toll, at Madison, to be provided at pub
lie expense, and such officer shall hold
his office for the term of four years
from and after the date of his appoint
ment and until his successor shall be
appointed. Any vacancy occurring in
said Office shall likewise be filled by
executive appointment Said prohibit
ton commissioner shall receive sal
airy 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 con-
stitutionaI 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 pro-
hibition commissioner may appoint
necessary deputies, to be known and
designated as Deputy Prohibition
Commissioners" and may employ all
necessary clerks and fix the compen
sation and remuneration of all such
deputies and clerks so appointed and
file all such appointments, together
with a statement showing the compen-
sation 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 compen
sation so fixed, to be audited, allowed
and paid on the certificate of the pro-
hibition commissioner in the same
manner as salaries and compensations
are now allowed and paid to state Off
Gals and 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 q