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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

all other respects shall be governed by the General Election

Laws of this State existing at the time of the holding of said

elections, except as otherwise provided for by this Act.

4. After any such election as provided for in Section 2 of

Cannot vote

this Act has been held in any election district, city or town

again upon
same question

of Wicomico County there shall not be another election in

for four
years.

said election district, city or town upon said question within

four years thereafter.

4A. That the Supervisors of Elections for Wicomico County

Wicomico
County to

shall have prepared the necessary ballots, at the expense of

bear all ex-

Wicomico County, for said elections, as above provided for,

penses of
elections.

which said ballots shall be printed in the same manner and

style that official ballots are printed for any general election to

be held in this State; that on each of said ballots shall be

printed the following words : "Against licensing the sale of

intoxicating- liquors for beverages" and "For licensing the sale

of intoxicating liquors for beverages," in order to ascertain the

vote on said question. Every such ballot on which a cross (X)

shall be placed in the square opposite the words "Against li-

Form of ticket
to be voted.

censing the sale of intoxicating- liquors for beverages" shall

be counted as a vote in the negative, and every such ballot on

which the cross (X) shall be placed in the square opposite the

words "For licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors for bev-

erages" shall be counted as a vote in the affirmative ; but no

ballot shall be counted as a vote upon the question unless a

cross (X) shall be placed opposite one of the said phrases.

The manner of canvassing the ballots and making- returns

thereof shall conform, as nearly as practicable, to the require-

ments of the General Election Laws of this State, except the

certificate of the Supervisors of Elections in any district where

the said question is submitted shall be as follows : "We hereby

certify that at the election held in ———— on the ———— day

Canvassing the

of ———— , ——— votes were cast for licensing the sale of in-

returns.

toxicating liquors for beverages, and ———— votes were cast

against licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverages,

the said certificates shall be returned to the County Commis-

sioners for Wicomico County, and upon the receipt of said cer-

tificate of election aforesaid it shall be the duty of the County

Commissioners of Wicomico County, if it shall appear that the

majority of the votes cast were against the sale of intoxicating

liquors for beverages, to give notice of such returns of election,

by advertising in one or more newspapers published in said

county, and in that event it shall not be lawful for any license

for the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverages to be issued