commissioner's court of said county) may by a majority vote determine from time to time whether the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be prohibited within the prescribed limits.

Originated in the Legislature, 1891.

Adopted by a vote of the people, August, 1891.

Effective, September 22, 1891.

VIRGINIA, Art. IV, Sec. 62. The General Assembly shall have full power to enact local option or dispensary laws, or any other laws controlling, regulating, or prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors.

Adopted by the Constitutional Convention without submission to the people, 1902.

Effective, July 10, 1902.

WEST VIRGINIA, Art. XI, Sec. 4. Laws may be passed regulating or prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor within the limits of this State. Constitution of 1861–1863.

Art. VI, Sec. 46. On and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, wine, porter, ale, beer or any intoxicating drink, mixture or preparation of like nature, except as hereinafter provided, are hereby prohibited in this State; provided, however, that the manufacture and sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicinal, pharmaceutical, mechanical, sacramental and scientific purposes, and the manufacture and sale of denatured alcohol for industrial purposes may be permitted under such regulations as the Legislature may prescribe. The Legislature shall, without delay, enact such laws, with regulations, conditions, securities and penalties as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section.

Originated in the Legislature, February 9, 1911.
Adopted at the general election, November, 1912.
Effective, July 1, 1914.

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Art. VIII, Sec. 24. The county courts, . . . shall also, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, have the superintendence and administration of the internal and police and fiscal affairs of their counties, including the establishment and regulation of roads, ways, bridges, public landings, ferries and mills, with authority to lay and disburse the county levies; Provided, That no license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any incorporated city, town or village, shall be granted without the consent of the municipal authorities thereof, first had and obtained. . . . Such tribunals as have been heretofore established by the Legislature under and by virtue of the thirty-fourth section of the eighth article of the Constitution of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two for police

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and fiscal purposes, shall, until otherwise provided by law, remain and continue as at present constituted in the counties in which they have been respectively established, and shall be and act as to police and fiscal matters in lieu of the county court created by this article until otherwise provided by law. . .

Originated in the Legislature, 1879.

Adopted by vote of the people at the general election of 1880.

Effective, January 1, 1881.

WYOMING, Art. XIX, Sec. 1. On and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of malt, vinous or spirituous (,) wine, ale, porter, beer or any intoxicating drink, mixture or preparation of like nature, except as hereinafter provided, are hereby prohibited in this State. Provided however, that the manufacture and sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicinal, pharmaceutical, mechanical, sacramental, and scientific purposes, and the manufacture and sale of denatured alcohol for industrial purposes may be permitted under such regulations as the legislature may prescribe. The legislature shall, without delay, enact such laws, with regulations, conditions, securities and penalties as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section.

Originated in the Legislature, 1917.

Adopted at the general election, November, 1918.

APPENDIX C.

STATES NOW HAVING STATUTORY PROHIBITION, WITH CITATIONS TO THE ACTS ESTABLISHING IT.

ALABAMA. Acts 1915, No. 1, effective June 30, 1915; No. 9,.effective February 10, 1915; No. 10, effective January 27, 1915; No. 491, effective September 25, 1915.

ARKANSAS. Acts 1915, Act 30, effective February 6, 1915.

GEORGIA. Acts 1915, extraordinary session, Part I, Title 2, Nos. 2, 3 and 4, effective May 1, 1915.

INDIANA. Acts 1917, Chapter 4, effective April 2, 1918.

IOWA. Supplemental Supplement to the Code, 1915, Chapter 6, Section 2382, effective January 1, 1916.

Acts 1917, Chapter 136, effective July 4, 1917.

MISSISSIPPI. Acts 1908, Chapter 113, effective December 31, 1908. MONTANA. Acts 1917, Chapters 143 and 175, effective December 31, 1918. NEVADA. Initiative Act, approved Nov. 5, 1918.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. Laws, 1917, Chapter 147.

NORTH CAROLINA. Extra session, 1908, Chapter 71, effective January 1, 1909.

SOUTH CAROLINA. Acts 1915, Nos. 76, effective February 16, 1915, and 102, effective February 20, 1915.

Acts 1916, No. 538, effective March 25, 1916.

TENNESSEE. Acts 1909, Chapter 10, effective January 1, 1910.

Second extraordinary session, 1913, Chapter 1, effective October 16,

1913.

Chapter 2, effective March 1, 1914.

Chapter 3, effective October 16, 1913.

Acts 1915, Chapter 54, effective June 1, 1915.

VERMONT. Acts 1915, No. 171, effective May 1, 1927.

VIRGINIA. Acts 1914, Chapter 15, effective June 18, 1914.
Acts 1916, Chapter 146, effective November 1, 1916.

WASHINGTON. Acts 1915, Chapter 2, effective January 1, 1916.
Acts 1917, Chapter 19, effective June 6, 1917.

APPENDIX D.

STATES NOW HAVING LOCAL OPTION, WITH CITATIONS TO THE CONSTITUTIONS OR STATUTES ESTABLISHING IT.

CALIFORNIA. Acts 1911, Chapter 351, effective April 4, 1911.

CONNECTICUT. Acts 1872, Chapter XCIX, effective September 15, 1872.

DELAWARE. Constitution of 1897, Article XIII.

ILLINOIS. Acts 1907, page 297, effective July 1, 1907.

KENTUCKY. Acts 1894, Chapter 52, effective March 10, 1894.

LOUISIANA. Acts 1855, No. 126.

MASSACHUSETTS. Acts 1875, Chapter 99.

MINNESOTA. Acts 1905, Chapter 10, effective February 14, 1905.

Acts 1913, Chapter 387, effective June 1, 1913.

Acts 1915, Chapter 23, effective March 1, 1915.

MISSOURI. Acts 1887, page 179, effective June 19, 1887.

NEW YORK. Acts 1896, Volume I, Chapter 112, effective March 23, 1896.
RHODE ISLAND. Acts 1889, Chapter 816, effective August 1, 1889.
TEXAS. Constitution of 1876, Article XVI, Section 20, and an amend-
ment thereto adopted September 22, 1891.

UTAH. Acts 1911, Chapter 106, effective May 8, 1911.
VERMONT. Acts 1904, No. 115, effective March 1, 1905.

WISCONSIN. Acts 1889, Chapter 521, effective April 24, 1889.

APPENDIX E.

FEDERAL LEGISLATION CONCERNING LIQUORS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. An Act divesting Intoxicating Liquors of their Interstate Character in Certain Cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited. United States Statutes-at-Large, XXXVII, 699.

NOTE.

The above law, popularly known as the Webb-Kenyon Act, was interpreted in Adams Express Co. v. Kentucky (1915), 238 U. S. 190, and was declared constitutional in Clark Distilling Co. v. Western Maryland Ry. Co. (1917), 242 U. S. 311.

CHAPTER 162.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN, and for OTHER PURPOSES. SEC. 5. That no letter, postal card, circular, newspaper, pamphlet, or publication of any kind containing any advertisement of spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquors of any kind, or containing a solicitation of an order or orders for said liquors, or any of them, shall be deposited in or carried by the mails of the United States, or be delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier, when addressed or directed to any person, firm, corporation, or association, or other addressee, at any place or point in any State or Territory of the United States at which it is by the law in force in the State or Territory at that time unlaw