Forty-three petitioners seek amendments to the law governing the retailing of liquor. They ask to "separate intoxicating drinks from other articles of ordinary traffic--to require that a license to retail them shall only be had in the manner now required for tavern license; that the tax be at least $12; and that under no circumstances shall a sale either to or by negroes or mulattoes be permitted." The current license fee of $2.50, they argue, allows "the most abandoned negro" to obtain "a legal commission to poison both morally and physically a whole neighborhood, or at least to render worse than worthless almost all the servants within his reach."
Result: House: presented, read, referred.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
