New York Court of Appeals March 12, 1918 (Matter of Hickey)

Cardozo, J.

An amendment of the Liquor Tax Law in 1917 provides for the reduction of the nqmber of liquor tax certificates in cities having.a population of 55,000 or less, and in towns (L. 1917, ch. 623). The number is to be so reduced that there shall be not more than one certificate for each five hundred of population (sec. 8, subd. 9, par. c).