Title

PROHIBITION

Proposition Summary

Initiative Act. Declares that every person, firm or corporation which manufactures, imports or sells intoxicating liquors after December 31, 1918, except denatured alcohol, shall be guilty of misdemeanor punishable by twenty-five dollars fine and twenty-five days imprisonment for first offense, and by fifty dollars fine and fifty days imprisonment for second offense, and by one hundred dollars fine and one hundred days imprisonment for each subsequent offense.

Proposition Number

22

Year

1918

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 275643; A: 47.4; N: 306488; B: 52.6

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

G. F. Rinehart, Manager Bone Dry Federation of California

Against Author

Hilliard E. Welch, President of Lodi National Bank

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