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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Shall receive tickets.

judges of election in the districts hereinbefore named in the preceding section shall receive tickets written or printed from the legal voters in said districts, on which shall be written or printed "For License, " or " Against License, " and shall deposit them in. a sep-erate box provided for the purpose, and the said tickets shall be counted and returned as other ballots are counted and returned, and the result shall be certified by said judges as other elections are certified to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Somerset county,

Proclaim.

whose duty it shall be to proclaim the result by publication in one or more newspapers in the county within ten days after the returns shall be received by him; and the same notice shall be given by the sheriff of these elections as is required in other elections, and said elections shall in all respects be subject to and be governed by the election laws of this State, so far as they are applicable thereto.

Continue in force.

SUB-SECTION 8. If, at said election provided for in the preceding sections, a majority of the votes in either of said election districts shall be against license then the provisions of this act shall continue in force in said district so voting and not otherwise, and no license shall issue for the sale of malt, spirituous, vinous or intoxicating liquors within such district, except as maybe allowable under sub-section six; but if the result of such election shall be in favor of license, then license shall be issued in the district so deciding, as now allowed by law, and all licenses so granted for sale of liquors in the said districts named in sub-section six, which shall declare against license,

Null and void.

shall become null and void after the first day of January eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the Comptroller shall refund to the holder thereof a due. proportion of money paid for the same, for the residue of time covered by such license.

Shall be deemed.

SUB-SECTION 9. No sale of said prohibited liquors shall be deemed a sale for medicinal purposes under any sub-section of this article unless the buyer presents a written prescription of some respectable physician, except in the case of extreme illness when delay is impracticable and dangerous, arid unless the seller be a physician, in which case he shall take the,