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Dear Senator Cain:

Your opinion request of recent date asks whether the sale of beer six percent (6%) or less alcohol by volume is permissible in Ward One of Calcasieu Parish. Our response is in the affirmative, for the following reasons.

Factually, you relate that in 1950 a local option election was held in Ward One pursuant to the authority granted by Act 372 of 1948. The following propositions were submitted, with the resulting votes:

PROPOSITION I

1. Shall the sale of beer containing more than three and two-tenths per centrum (3.2%) alcohol by weight, and not more than six per centrum (6%)…