EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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shall, if possible, be upon a single sheet of paper and shall
contain a caption containing the day on which said election

Returns of the
election.

was held and the hours thereof, and showing the whole num-

ber of votes given for each candidate, designating the office

for which they were given. Such statements or returns shall

be printed, or partly printed and written, and in case a prop-

Proposition

osition of any kind has been submitted to the voters at any

voted on.

such election, it shall also show in like manner the number

of votes for and against such proposition, and at the end of

each such statement or return shall be printed or written

a certificate that the same is correct in all respects ; which

certificate and each sheet of paper forming a part of the

statement shall be subscribed by the judges and clerks of such

election. If any judge or clerk shall decline to sign such

return, he shall state his reasons therefor in writing, and a

copy thereof, signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each

return. And each return or statement shall be enclosed in

Returns to be

envelope which shall then be securely sealed and each of

sealed and
delivered to

the judges and clerks shall then write his name across the

proper parties

fold of the envelope, one of which envelopes shall be directed

to the Mayor and the other to the City Council of said town

of Laurel, the one addressed to the Mayor shall be delivered

to him and the one addressed to the City Council shall be de-

livered to the President of the City Council at the time herein-

after mentioned ; and all saloons in the said town of Laurel

shall be closed on the days of all elections held under the pro-

Forbidding
sate of liquor

visions of this Act, and the sale of any liquors or intoxicating

on day of

drinks of any kind within the limits of said town on the day of

election.

any election held under the provisions of this Act shall be

illegal and punishable in the same manner as any violation

of law in respect to the sale thereof prescribed by the Acts

of Assembly of 1898, Chapter 105, and in so far as they

are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, Sections

84. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100,

101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108 and 109, of Chapter 71 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, are hereby

adopted and made a part of this Act a? fully as if they had

been herein specifically set out.

194I. The City Council shall meet on the Wednesday after

each election held under the provisions of this Act at seven

Council to re-
ceive the re-

thirty o'clock P.M., at which meeting it shall be the duty of

turns.

the Mayor to be present, to receive the election returns as

provided in the preceding section, and it shall be the duty

of the said Mayor and City Council to issue certificates of