be especially dangerous, by which compulsory compensation shall be required to be paid to any such workman by his employer, if in the course of such employment personal injury to any such workman from any accident arising out of, and in the course of, such employment is caused in whole or in part, or is contributed to, by a necessary, risk or danger of such employment, or a necessary risk or danger inherent in the nature thereof, or by failure of such employer, or any of his or its officers, agents, or employee, or employees, to exercise due care, or to comply with any law affecting such employment; Provided. that it shall be optional with said employee to settle for such compensation, or retain the right to sue said employer as provided by this constitution.

XVII.

LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

OHIO. Schedule S 18. No license to traffic in intoxicating 1. liquors shall hereafter be granted in this state; but the general assembly may, by law, provide against the evils resulting therefrom.

(1) Legislature authorized to regulate or prohibit, the manufacture, sale or use:

La. A 181. The regulation of the sale of alcoholic or spirituous liquors is declared a police regulation, and the General Assembly may enact laws regulating their sale and use.

Va. A 4, S 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.

W. Va. A 6, S 46. Laws may be passed regulating or prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of this State.

(2) The General Assembly may license the manufacture and sale of liquors or prohibit the same:

S. C. A 8, S II. In the exercise of the police power the General Assembly shall have the right to prohibit the manufacture and sale and retail of alcoholic liquors or beverages within the State. The General Assembly may license persons or corporations to manufacture and sell and retail alcoholic liquors or beverages within the State under such rules and restrictions as it deems proper; or the General Assembly may prohibit the manufacture and sale and retail of alcoholic liquors and beverages within the State, and may authorize and empower State, County and municipal officers, all or either, under the authority and in the name of the State, to buy in any market and retail within the State liquors and beverages in such packages and quantities, under such rules and regulations, as it deems expedient; Provided, That no license shall be granted to sell alcoholic beverages in less quantities than one-half pint, or to sell them between sundown and sunrise, or to sell them to be drunk on the premises; And provided, further, That the General Assembly shall not delegate to any municipal corporation the power to issue licenses to sell the same.

No Liquor
License
Shall be
Granted.

ture, Sale,

Manufac

Keeping, or

of Intoxica

Giving Away Kas. A 15, S 10. Kas. A 15, S 10. The manufacture and sale of intoxicating ting Liquors liquors shall be forever prohibited in this state, except for medical, scientific, and mechanical purposes.

Absolutely
Prohibited.

Me. Amendments A 26. The manufacture of intoxicating liquors, not including cider, and the sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors, are and shall be forever prohibited.

Except, however, that the sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicinal and mechanical purposes and the arts, and the sale and keeping for sale of cider, may be permitted under such regulations as the Legislature may provide.

The Legislature shall enact laws with suitable penalties for the suppression of the manufacture, sale and keeping for sale, of intoxicating liquors with the exceptions herein specified.

N. D. A 20, S 217. No person, association or corporation shall within this State, manufacture for sale or gift, any intoxicating liquors, and no person, association or corporation shall import any of the same for sale or gift, or keep or sell or offer the same for sale, or gift, barter or trade as a beverage.

The legislative assembly shall by law prescribe regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this article and shall thereby provide suitable penalties for the violation thereof.

Okla. Prohibition Article (Separately submitted). The manufacture, sale, barter, giving away, or otherwise furnishing, except as hereinafter provided, of intoxicating liquors within this State, or any part thereof is prohibited for a period of twenty-one years from the date of the admission of this State into the Union, and thereafter until the people of the State shall otherwise provide by amendment of this constitution and proper State legislation.

(The article further provides for penalties for violation of these provisions; for the sale of liquor for medicinal, industrial and scientific purposes and for the sale of liquor to apothecaries: all sales to be made upon sworn statement of the appiicant, stating the purpose for which the liquor is to be used, and accompanied by prescription of a physician; each sale to be registered and providing further for penalties for making false affidavits and for making prescriptions except for treatment of disease.) See also A 1, S 5.

(1) Legislature directed to enact laws for local option in any county, justice's precinct, town, city or sub-division of a county:

Ky. Bill of Rights, S 61. The General Assembly shall, by general law, provide a means whereby the sense of the people of any county, city, town, district or precinct may be taken, as to whether or not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold, bartered or loaned therein, or the sale thereof regulated. But nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with or to repeal any law in force relating to the sale or gift of such liquors. All elections on this question may be held on a day other than the regular election days.

Tex. A 16, S 20. The legislature shall at its first session enact a law whereby the qualified voters of any county, justice's precinct, town, city (or such subdivision of a county as may be designated by the 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.

(2) Legislature shall provide for local option in counties upon application of one-fourth of the registered voters:

Fla. A 19, S 1, 2. The Board of County Commissioners of
each county in the State, not oftener than once in every two
years, upon the application of one-fourth of the registered voters
of any county, shall call and provide for an election in the county
in which application is made, to decide whether the sale of in-
toxicating liquors, wines or beer shall be prohibited therein. the
question to be determined by a majority vote of those voting at
the election called under this section, which election shall be
conducted in the manner prescribed by law for holding general
elections; Provided, That intoxicating liquors, either spirituous,
vinous, or malt, shall not be sold in any election district in which
a majority vote was cast against the same at the said election.
Elections under this section shall be held within sixty days from
the time of presenting said application, but if any such election
should thereby take place within sixty days of any State or Na-
tional election, it shall be held within sixty days after any such
State or National election.

S 2.
The Legislature shall provide necessary laws to carry out
and enforce the provisions of Section 1 of this Article.

(3) Legislature authorized and directed to submit question of license
or prohibition in certain specified districts:

Del. A 13, S 1, 2, 3.

OHIO. No provisions.

N. Mex. A 20, S 13.

The use of wines solely for sacramental purposes under church authority at any place within the State shall never be prohibited.

5. Legislature shall Pro

6.

ated Liquors.

Colo. A 18, S 5. The General Assembly shall prohibit by law

hibit the Im- the importation into the State, for the purpose of sale, of any portation, Manufac- spurious, poisonous, or drugged spirituous liquors, or spirituous ture or Sale of Adulter- liquors adulterated with any poisonous or deleterious substance, mixture, or compound; and shall prohibit the compounding or manufacture within this State, except for chemical or mechanical purposes, of any of said liquors, whether they be denominated spirituous, vinous, malt, or otherwise; and shall also prohibit the sale of any such liquors to be used as a beverage; and any violation of either of said prohibitions shall be punished by fine and imprisonment. The general assembly shall provide by law for the condemnation and destruction of all spurious, poisonous, or drugged liquors herein prohibited.

Legislature
Shall Enact
Laws for

the Promo-
tion of
Temper-

ance.

7. Sale or Distribution of Liquor on Election

Day.

OHIO. — No provisions.

Idaho A 3, S 24. The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of the home. The Legislature should further all wise and well-directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality.

Ga. A 2, S 5. The General Assembly shall, by law, forbid the sale, distribution, or furnishing of intoxicating drinks within two miles of election precincts, on days of election,-State, County or Municipal, and prescribe punishment for any violation of the same.

Ky. Bill of Rights, S 154. The General Assembly shall prescribe such laws as may be necessary for the restriction or prohibition of the sale or gift of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors on election day.

La. A 205. The General Assembly shall, by law, forbid the giving or selling of intoxicating drinks, on the day of any election, or primary election, within one mile of any polling place.