United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 3229 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...chief justice dissenting--in effect that all licenses issued under the old law were valid until November 1, 1893. Pending the appeal, on May 3, 1893, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, acting as the executive officers thereof, sent to each licensed liquor dealer in the District of Columbia a circular letter calling upon him, in view of the position taken by the Commissioners and in accord with the decision of the police court, to file their applications under the new law, under penalty of prosecution for noncompliance, giving them twenty days within which to comply. This letter met with a ready response, for within said period there were tiled with the excise board 540 applications for barroom licenses and 102 applications for wholesale liquor licenses. Of the 540 barroom licenses applied for 119 were allowed and 46 were rejected. Fifteen wholesale liquor licenses were granted and 9 disallowed. A great many of these applications were acted upon prior to the decision of the court of appeals. The court's opinion sustaining the validity of the old licenses caused the refundment of a major portion of the deposit money, leaving as licensed under the new law some few new places. Since November 1, 1893, when the new license law when into effect, to March 3, 1894, 501 applications for barroom licenses have been granted, 36 rejected, and 1 license revoked; 107 applications for wholesale licenses have been favorably acted upon, and 5 have been disallowed; 64 persons have been convicted of violation of the new law. The total amount of fines imposed was $14,136.25, of which $4,009.31 has been collected, leaving $10,126.94 of said amount uncollected by reason of the large number of persons who serve out the workhouse sentence instead of...