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.