JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
by said vote and the proclamation of the Judges of the Circuit
Court for Queen Anne's County, as provided by said Act, be-
come a law for said Fourth Election District of Queen Anne's
County; and,
WHEREAS, By proper petition addressed to the General As-
sembly at its session of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
the said Act was amended so as to make the sale of alcoholic
and intoxicating bitters come under the terms and penalties
of said law; and,
WHEREAS, In neither the original Act nor in the amend-
ments is the sale of cider prohibited; and,
WHEREAS, The sale of cider is conducted contrary to the
wishes of a majority of the voters of said district to the great
disturbance of peace, quiet and order, as well as to the injury
of the business interests of said district; and,
WHEREAS, Petitions have been addressed to the General
Assembly for an amendatory Act to remedy the grievance
complained of and growing out of the said sale of cider; there-
fore
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary,
land, That said Act of the General Assembly of Maryland of
the January Session of eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
Chapter four hundred and fifty-three, and amended at the
January Session of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, Chap-
ter one hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same is hereby
amended, so far as the same relates to the Fourth Election
District of Queen Anne's County, by adding the two following
sections to be numbered seven and eight.
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Amendment
and sections
added.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, That the terms and provisions of said
Acts of Assembly be and the same are hereby amended,
enlarged and extended so as to embrace and include therein
the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors of any origin
whatever, and of intoxicating or alcoholic bitters and of all
kinds of cider, so far as the said Act relates to the fourth
election district of Queen Anne's County as fully and as amply
as if the same had been embraced, included, mentioned, and
particularly described in Section one of said Act as originally
passed, and as if the same had been included in the said Act
as amended, and as if the same had been adopted by a majority
of the legal voters of said district, and had been proclaimed as
the law thereof by the Judges of the Circuit Court for Queen
Anne's County, and that prosecutions and penalties provided
in Sections two and three of the original acts of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, Chapter four hundred and fifty-three
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Certain pro-
visions carried
out.
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