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vert county be, and they are hereby authorized and.
empowered to appoint an additional constable in
election district number two, and also an additional
constable in election district number three, Calvert
county.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its date of passage. Approved March 25, 1876.

In force.

CHAPTER 146. AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Worcester county to determine by ballot whether spirituous or fermented liquors shall not be sold in said county, or shall be sold only as hereinafter de- scribed, and to repeal all acts inconsistent here- with.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That chapter one hundred and sixty-three of the acts passed at January session eighteen hun- dred and seventy-four, shall not remain in force on and after the first day of May next, and that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of	Repealed.
this act are hereby repealed: provided however, that this act shall not be construed to affect any offence already committed, but all such offences may be prosecuted and punished under the law existing at the time of the commission of said respective offences.	Proviso.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the questions whether or not any person or persons, or any house as hereinafter described may be licensed in Worces- ter county of this State, by whom or in which spirit- uous or fermented liquors may be sold, or whether or not no license to sell the same in Worcester county shall be issued, shall be submitted to the people of said county on Tuesday the twenty-fifth of April, 15	Licenses