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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said town, and at said election they shall provide two tickets,

on one of which shall be printed "For Liquor License," and on

the other ''Against Liquor License ;" and at said election only

freeholders of the town of Friendsville who are otherwise qual-

ified as voters shall be permitted to vote. The town clerk

herein named shall secure from the clerk of the County Com-

missioners a certified list of all freeholders in said town, which

list shall be verified as to the voters' qualifications by compari-

son with the registration list of said town of Friendsville in the

office of the Supervisors of Elections for said county, and for

the purposes of this election the said certified list under the

seal of the County Commissioners, attested by the clerk of the

town of Friendsville, made in duplicate, shall be the registration

Registration

list by which the judges of election shall be guided in taking

list.

the vote of said question. The Mayor and Council of Friends-

ville shall appoint three judges and two clerks to hold said

election, and they shall severally take the oath provided for

judges and clerks by Article 33 of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Elections ;" and the polls shall be opened at one

o'clock P.M. and closed at six o'clock P.M. Said judges and

clerks shall make return to the Mayor and Council of the result

of said election, and if it shall be found that a majority of the

votes cast are "For Liquor License," then and in that event

license shall be issued in conformity with the provisions of

the succeeding sections of this Act. But if a majority of the

votes cast shall be found to be "Against Liquor License,"

then no license shall be issued except after another election, as

Notice of
election to

provided for by Section 111Q. Should any such election be

be given.

held the Mayor and Council shall, by hand bills posted in said

town, give five days' notice of said election.

111G. Any person or persons being the lessor or owner

Hotel proprie-

of any hotel property capable of comfortably accommodating

tors to sell
liquors.

fifteen guests or more with suitable and comfortable rooms

and beds and bedding shall, upon application to the clerk of said

corporation and the payment of a minimum license fee of two

hundred and fifty dollars per year, be authorized to sell liquors,

malt and spirituous, in the town of Friendsville at a bar to be lo-

cated in said hotel and nowhere else, and said bar shall be closed

promptly at nine o'clock every week night and shall remain

closed from nine o'clock P.M. until six o'clock A.M. of the fol-

lowing day ; and anyone violating this provision by opening or

selling liquors between the hours named, or from any time from

nine o'clock on Saturday night until six o'clock Monday morn-

ing, shall be deemed to have violated any privilege herein con-

tained or acquired by the payment of the license fee aforesaid