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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Law decided
by vote.

148. At the- election to be held in November
next, an election shall be held in said Tangier
District for or against the provisions of this Act,
at which every qualified voter in said district shall
be entitled to vote for or against a prohibitory
Liquor Law, the result of which election shall be
returned and certified according to law and if at
said election, a majority of the votes cast shall be
in favor of a prohibitory Liquor Law, then this
Act shall be and remain in force, but if a majority
of the votes cast at said election in said district,
shall be against a prohibitory Liquor Law, then
the Governor shall by proclamation make known
the said result, and from and after the first day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, the provisions of
this Act shall cease; and be inoperative in the
same manner as if the same had not been enacted.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 415.

AN ACT for the better protection of the Bridge
over Sassafras River, from Fredericktown, in
Cecil County, to Georgetown, in Kent County.

Penalty,

SECTION 1 , Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all persons passing over the
Sassafras River bridge on horseback, in carriages,
carts, wagons, sleighs, or other vehicles, shall be
required to put their horses in a walk, otherwise
to be fined five dollars for each and every offence;

it shall be the duty of the bridge tender to see to
the enforcement of this Act; any Justice of the
Peace for either Cecil County or Kent County in
which any party violating the above provisions
may be found, shall have jurisdiction in the mat-
ter; said penalty to be recovered in the name of
the County Commissioners of said counties, in an
action for debt.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all captains, own-
ers, masters and sailors of vessels, going through
the draw of said bridge, shall be required to lower