Scott Act


The popular name given to the Temperance Act introduced by

(Sir) R. W. Scott and passed by the Dominion government in 1878. Its

principal provisions were that on a petition of one-fourth of the

electors of a city or county, a vote was to be taken, and if a majority

of the votes polled were in favour of the act, it came into force at the

close of the then current license year. =Index=: (George Brown Era) A measure for

introducing prohibition by local option, 249. =Bib.=: Johnson, First

Things in Canada.



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