MARYLAND MANUAL. 829

STATEWIDE REFERENDUM (Chapter 91..1937)

An Act to repeal and reenaet with amendments Section 5 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Marriages" to fix the time within which marriage licenses may be issued, the purpose being to require a forty-eight hour waiting period between the application for a marriage license and the performance of the ceremony.

	For	Against
Counties and	Referred	Referred
Baltimore City	Law	Law
Allegany ..............................	8,262	4,382
Anne Arundel .................	7,474	2,071
Baltimore ...........................	20,945	11,094
Calvert ....................................	1,085	268
Caroline ...............................	2,025	619
Carroll .................................	4,864	1,881
Cecil ..........................................	3,658	2,753
Charles ................................	912	251
Dorchester ........................	2,218	980
Frederick ........................	6,378	3,036
Garrett ....................................	1,118	1,642
Harford ..............................	5,220	1,363
Howard ................................	3,024	689
Kent .........................................	1,356	1,071
Montgomery ....................	11,018	1,402
Prince George's ............ Queen Anne's ..................	9,031 1,671	1,529 550
St. Mary's ...........................	584	202
Somerset ..............................	1,158	497
Talbot ....................................	1,704	661
Washington .....................	7,902	3,367
Wicomico ..............................	2,783	781
Worcester ...........................	1,700	548
Baltimore City ...............	61,032	15,732
1st Legislative Dist.
2nd Legislative Dist.
3rd Legislative Dist.
4th Legislative Dist.
5th Legislative Dist.		............
6th Legislative Dist.	............
Totals ..............................	167,122	57,369

NOTE: The vote being in favor of the referred law, the same went into effect December 9th, 1938.