EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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liquors and lager beer in the corporate limits of the said town

of Friendsville, upon the same terms and conditions and for

License for-
feited.

the license fee or charge as other State licenses are issued for

the sale of spirituous liquors and lager beer, and in case his

license so granted by the Mayor and Council of Friendsville

shall be forfeited under the provisions of this Act and he shall

be convicted as herein provided, then he shall no longer have

any right to sell under his State license.

111P. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the Circuit

Court of Garrett County to issue licenses to any person, per-

Unlawful.

sons, firm or corporation to sell spirituous or fermented liquors

or lager beer after April 30, 1904, outside the corporate limits

of Friendsville within four miles of the public school at

Friendsville, Maryland.

111Q. Whenever hereafter the freeholders of the town shall

desire to have the sale of liquor abolished they shall petition

Freeholders'
right of pe-

the Mayor and Council at least thirty clays before the February

tition.

election, provided for in each year, to submit at said election

to the voters of said town whether or not the license herein

provided for shall be abolished: and the Mayor shall have

printed on separate tickets to be voted at said election the words

"For Liquor License" and "Against Liquor License," and if

a majority of the votes cast shall be "For Liquor License" the

same shall be issued as hereinbefore provided, but if a majority

of the votes cast shall be "Against Liquor License," then no

more licenses to sell liquors shall be granted after the expira-

tion of the term for which any such licenses then issued shall

end. And if the votes of the majority shall be "Against Liquor

License," and the sale of such liquors be prohibited, any ten

freeholders in said town may at the next ensuing election, peti-

tion for a submission of the question again, and a similar

ticket shall be prepared and voted, and the majority for or

against liquor license shall prevail and licenses shall be issued

as aforesaid or not, as the case may be, and the voters shall de-

cide. And under these conditions and provisions the question

of license or no license may be submitted at each and every

Question of

annual election. No person who is not a freeholder within the

license may
be voted on

corporate limits of the town of Friendsville and possessing all

annually.

the other qualifications set forth in this Act shall be entitled

to vote on the license question.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.