A Bill: To Modify The License Law

Section 1. Be it enacted by the benate and House of Representalives of the State of Michigan, That nt each annual township meeting hereafter tobe held, he inspectors of township elections shall urnish, for the reception of the ballots of qualified voters, an additional box, to be kept open, and the ballots therein leposited to be canvassed, and the result ascertained and declared, in the same manner with other votes cast at such elecion. Sec. 2. There shall be written or printed upon the ballots deposited in said box by the qualified voters, the words "license," or "no license;" and, if upon canvassing the said votes, it should be found that a majority of the voies given were inscribed "no license," the township board shall be thereby prohibited from granting any license during the year, next ensuing, for the sale of intoxicating liquorsof any kind. Sec. 3. I f upon such canvass, it should be ascertained that a majority of the votes thus cast, were inscribed wilh the word "license," then the township board may, in their discretion, grant licenses for the sale of intoxicaling liquors, according to the provisions of existing laws therefor.ftj We notice that Temperance men i soveral of the Stutes are urging their Legis latnres to alter or repeal the License laws. - The petitions to the Maine Legislntiire linve ttvelve thousand signatures. Tho cause oí Temperance has been discussed for ab ui twenty years, and public opinión is now nearly matured in regard lo the extent of the evil, and the appropriaie remedy. Jn ten yeare more, the whole matter will be disposed of, itnd legislation rcspecting it be placed on a permanent basis. On stibjects of tlns kind, the course of public opinión which sete in afterfull di6cupsion by the mass of the eople, is irretistably onward. The reformation of public sentunení in reference to Lottcries may be cited os the harbinger of that whicl will take place in regard to inloxicating drinks.ff?" Gerrit Smith writea from Petorboro March 5: "The little town of Smi.bfield, ii which is the villnge of Peterboro, continu faithful lo the cause of Liberty. Two years ago, the Liberty ticket in this town beat each of the other tickets. Yesterdny, it beat the Democrats nnd Whigs combined. Last spring the Democrats and Whigs combined agains s; and beat us by a ninjority of twenty. - T!:is spring, they have repeated their combination; and we have beaten them by a majority of forty-eight'. Evéry man on our ticke is elected."