LOCAL OPTION BILL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 439, 13 September 1877, Page 3

LOCAL OPTION BILL.

The following are Mr. Fox's proposed amendments to the Local Option Bill: In lieu of clauses 7 and 8 to insert as follows : —Licensing snbdistricfcs shall be classified as municipal, suburban, and rural. Every subdistrict within any .municipal borough shall shall be a municipal district. Every subdistrict, the furthest boundary of which shall be within five miles of the boundary of any municipal borough nearest thereto, shall be a suburban subdisirict. Every subdistrict which shall be beyond the above limits shall be a rural subdistrict. Every municipal subdistrict shall contain an area of not less than ten nor more than fifccei acres,' and shall be" bounded as far as possible by public streets. Every suburban subdistrict Bhall contain an area of not Ic.-ts than twenty-five acres nor more than seventy-five acres, and shall, as far conveniently may be, be bounded by roads or shall coincide with established road board ci* sciJOPl districts not exceeding the. above area j sucll aksrnative boundaries to be adopted as may be most convSSiSOtftjr taking the vote of the pers-.ms residentinsuciT" subdistricts who may by reason of proximity be interested in the license of any house therein contained or to be contained. Every rural district shall contain an area of not less than five thousand nor more than twenty thousand acres, and shall be bounded 'in like" manner as hereinbefore directed with regard to suburban districts. Towns and villages not being municipal boroughs may be included within the limits of any suburban or rural subdistricts. At the beginning of clause 18 to insert— | The Chairman shall employ such professional j 05? biter persons as may be necessary to enable him to define subdistricts, distribute and collect voting papers, and otherwise carry out the provisions of this Act, and To add new clause—No intoxicating liquors shall be sold in nny licensed house in any municipal borough m which any election for members of the House of Representatives or borough election is proceeding, during the day of such election, till after the close of the poll. Nor Bhall any such liquors be sold in any subdistrict in which any election under this Act is proceeding during such day till after the close of the poll. Any person offending against this provision shall be liable to a penalty of ten pounds for every separate sale ; and if convicted of an offence on two different days his license shall- be ipso facto cancelled.