State ex rel. Ferry v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

By a supplement to the charter of the town of Orange, approved March . 30th, 1875, (Pamph. L., p. 399, § 8,) it was provided that no person should be allowed to sell ale, &c., within the city limits, unless he were first licensed by the collector of taxes, had paid a license fee, and had filed with the collector a letter of recommendation, signed by six legal voters and freeholders, who had signed no other recommendation Avithin a year, to the effect that the applicant Ayas of good moral character and of good repute for temperance. The relator…