Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — REGULATION THAT DON’T; THAT NEW PROCTOR LAW. [ARTICLE]

REGULATION THAT DON’T; THAT NEW PROCTOR LAW.

Dictated by the Brewers, of the Breners and for the Brewers, Is the Liquor Law of Indiana. The main points in the so-called Proctor regulation liquor law are as follows: “Saloons may be limited one to each 1,000 inhabitants and not more tiihn one to each 500. The commissioners of this county have placed the lliuit! at one to 1,000. “No license holder can receive any assistance of any sort from any person or corporation engaged in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, nor can the agent of any such person or corporation be granted a license. “Persons to whom licenses are granted must be of good moral character (no other kind ever apply) and must hkve resided in the state one year and in the township, city or town where he seeks a license, six months. “No person who has been convicted of a felony within fifteen years or who prior tc the passage of the law has besn convicted twice in four years of violating the liquor laws, shall be granted a new license; nor shall any person who has been convicted twice in any period of {two years of violating the liquor laws after this takes effect, be granted a renewal of licenses.

“Permission to sell or transfer license can be granted when the person to Whom it is proposed to sell or transfer such license, has all the qualifications required of original license. No license can be sold or transferred while charges are pending against the holder. The object of the provision is to make the bfijder careful not to lose his license by viola- 1 tion of the law. “Any voter may file remonstrance against the granting of renewal of license five days before the commissioners meet and no renewal shall be granted until such remonstrance is decided. In case of application for new license remonstrances may be filed under any former law. “Any license holder wishing to transfer ljis place of business must give at least twenty days’ notice of his intention to apply for permission to transfer and any person living in the territory to which it is proposed to move, shall have the privilege of remonstrating against the granting of such transfer. No transfer can be granted from a city to a township or from a township to a city. “No one shall sell intoxicating liquor on Sunday, the Fourth of July, Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, or on any election day until the polls are closed. In cities of the first and second class, saloons may remain open from 5 a. m. till 12 p. m.; in other cities from 5 a. m. till 11 p. m.; and in all other places between 5 a. m. and 10 p. m.”