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ARTICLE 7.

1914, ch. 492, sec. 3.

116. A vote, under the provisions of this Act, shall become operative
on the first day of May, next, after the day of the election at which such
vote is cast.

1914, ch. 492, sec. 4.

117. A petition for submission of said proposition shall be in sub-
stantially the following form: "To the Board of Supervisors of Elections
of Carroll County: the undersigned, legal voters of Carroll County, re-
spectfully petition that you cause to be submitted, in the manner provided
by law, to the voters thereof, at the next election, the proposition "Shall
this County become Anti-Saloon Territory ?"

Name of Signer.	City, town, village or election district.	Date of Signing.

Such petition shall consist of sheets having such form printed or writ-
ten at the top thereof and shall be signed by the legal voters in their own
proper persons only, and opposite the signature of each legal voter shall be
written the town, village or election district, as the case may be, in which
he resides, and the date of signing the same.

No signature shall be valid or countisd in considering such petition, un-
less these requirements are complied with and unless the date of signing
is less than six months preceding the date of filing the same.

At the bottom of each sheet of such petition shall be added a statement,
signed by a resident of Carroll County, with his residence address as
aforesaid, stating that the signatures on that sheet of the said petition
are genuine, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the persons
so signing were, at the time of signing said petition, legal voters of Carroll
County; that their respective residences are correctly stated therein and
that each signer signed the same on the date set opposite his name. Such
statement shall be sworn to before some officer residing in said county
where such legal voters reside, authorized to administer oaths therein.
Such sheets shall be fastened together in one document, filed as a whole,
and when filed shall not be withdrawn or added to. No signature shall
be withdrawn after the filing of such petition.

Such petition, so verified, or a copy thereof, duly certified as herein-
after provided, shall be prima facie evidence that the signatures, state-
ment of residence, and dates upon such petition are genuine and true
and that the persons signing the same are legal voters of Carroll County.