Chap. 0340 An Act to limit the number of places licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. In all towns and cities which vote to grant licenses of the first five classes described in - section ten of chapter one hundred of the Public Statutes, to sell intoxicating liquors, the number of places licensed for the sale of such liquors shall not exceed one for each one thousand of the population, as ascertained by the last preceding national or state census, except that in the city of Boston one such place may lie licensed for each five hundred of the population. No more than one such place shall be licensed by any one vote of the licensing board ; such licenses shall be numbered in regular order as granted, and any license granted contrary to, or in excess of the provisions of this act, shall be void : provided, that in towns having an increase of resident population during the summer months, the selectmen may, during the month of June, cause a census to be taken, and may grant one such license for each five hundred of said resident population, as ascertained by said special census, to take effect on the fifteenth day of June and to expire on the fifteenth day of September following ; but no such license shall be granted unless the town at its last annual town meeting votes "yes'' in answer to the question
Shall licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors be granted in this town 'i "
Section 2. The foregoing section shall not prevent the licensing of one place in any town voting for license whose population is less than one thousand.
Approved May 15, 1SS8.