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bo produced and opened if necessary,) they shall be destroyed
by the said board without being opened.

217*. It shall be unlawful to keep open in the said city, on any
election day, any drinking establishment or bar room, or any
grog-shop whatsoever, or to furnish any spirituous or fermented
liquor therein or therefrom, and any person or persons who shall
be guilty of violating this section or of retailing or dispensing
any spirituous or fermented liquors on any election day in said
city, shall on conviction thereof forfeit his or their license, if he
or they shall have taken out any, and be disqualified from
taking out any other license for the sale of such liquors for the
space of five years thereafter, and shall moreover be liable to a
penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered, by said Board
of Police by civil action, in the name of the State; and it shall
be the duty of said board and of the sheriff and his deputies,
and of all policemen, constables and other peace officers, to take
care that the provisions of this section be complied with, and to
inform upon all persons violating the same, of whose offences
they shall have knowledge or information.

218*. It shall be the duty of each and every of the said judges
of election, immediately after each election at which they shall
have acted as such, to appear before the grand jury of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore city, if in session, and if not,
before the grand jury of said court which shall next be in
session thereafter, to be examined touching any and all viola-
tions of the provisions of the Constitution, or of this article, or
of any other law relating to elections, of which they may have
personal knowledge, or which they may have reasonable ground
to believa to have been committed at such election; and every
judge of election in said city, failing so to appear before the
grand jury as aforesaid, prior to the adjournment of the same,
and to give such information as aforesaid as he may possess in
the premises, shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars,
to be recovered by the said Board of Police by civil action, in
the name of the State, unless the judge or judges so failing to
appear shall have furnished to the said grand jury before their
said adjournment, his or their certificate signed by him or them,
and under oath made and certified before a justice of the peace
of said city, that he or they did not know, and had no reason to
believe, that any such offences had been committed at the said
election; which certificates shall be returned by the grand jury

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