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The  Legislative  Year. 
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and  not  to  any  one  person  oftener  than  once  in  twenty-four  hours, 
upon  the  use  in  every  instance  of  a  special  iO-cent  stamp.  The 
measure  has  been  criticised  in  some  quarters,  but  it  would  seem  to 
have  the  advantage  of  nicely  adapting  the  revenue  expense  of  any 
druggist  to  the  amount  of  business  done  by  him,  while  it  would 
remove  from  him  that  temptation  to  do  a  larger  liquor  business  which 
is  always  present  when  the  tax  is  so  considerable  as  to  constitute  a 
financial  burden. 
New  liquor  laws  are  likewise  to  be  reported  from  North  Dakota, 
Vermont  and  New  Hampshire.  The  North  Dakota  measure  ema- 
nated from  other  than  pharmaceutical  circles,  and  provides  that 
henceforth  no  liquor  permit  shall  be  issued  to  a  druggist  unless  he 
secures  a  petition  signed  by  80  per  cent,  of  the  freeholders  and  70 
per  cent,  of  the  women  in  the  town,  ward  or  village  in  which  he 
does  business.  Previously  it  was  necessary  to  secure  the  signatures 
only  of  twenty-five  freeholders  and  twenty-five  women.  Moreover, 
not  more  than  half  a  pint  of  liquor  may  be  sold  to  the  same  person 
within  twenty-four  hours;  and  it  is  provided  that  the  customer  must 
be  known  to  the  druggist,  and  must  in  every  instance  sign  an  affi- 
davit. A  second  North  Dakota  law  passed  this  year  authorizes 
counties  to  pay  rewards  of  $50  for  information  leading  to  the  arrest 
of  persons  violating  the  liquor  statutes ! 
With  respect  to  the  new  liquor  measures  of  Vermont  and  New 
Hampshire,  it  may  be  explained  that  both  these  Commonwealths 
have  now  become  other  than  prohibition  States  for  the  first  time  in 
nearly  fifty  years,  and  that  general  liquor  laws  have  accordingly  been 
enacted.  In  Vermont  a  druggist  may  now  sell  liquor  "  only  upon  a 
physician's  prescription,"  and  the  prescription  itself  must  specifically 
state  the  ailment  for  which  the  liquor  is  given,  and  must  not  be 
refilled.  This  restriction  is  not  imposed  by  the  New  Hampshire 
act,  but  it  is  provided  in  that  measure  that  all  liquor  sales  shall  be 
registered.  In  neither  State  may  a  druggist  secure  a  license  unless 
he  is  a  registered  pharmacist  and  in  business  "  on  his  own  account " 
— a  provision  intended  to  prevent  saloon-keepers  and  others  from 
doing  a  liquor  business  under  the  guise  of  druggists.  In  New 
Hampshire  the  annual  tax  is  $10.  In  Vermont  it  is  "  not  less  than 
$10,"  and  presumably  as  much  more  as  the  local  authorities  may 
happen  to  find  themselves  in  urgent  need  of. 
Other  more  or  less  important  laws  of  the  year  may  be  briefly 
