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in the drafting of this bill; therefore it cannot receive Executive approval.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
STATE OF NEW YORK
Executive Chamber
Albany, May 5, 1900
Memorandum filed with Assembly bill No. 1022, introduced by Mr. Rogers,
entitled “An Act to amend the liquor tax law, relative to the sale of liquor on
election days”—Not approved
This bill is to amend the liquor tax law relative to the sale of liquor on election
days. It provides “except that the prohibition of this subdivision does not apply as
against the holder of a liquor tax certificate at an election in cities of the third class
where only tax payers or property owners or both are voters, not to an election in
cities of the third class for city officers not required by law to be elected at a
general city election”. The general provision of the statute prohibiting the sale of
liquor upon general election days is one which has met with the approval of all
people in this State; and no exception should be made save for unanswerable
reasons.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT