1994 ARTICLE 8.

LIQUOR AND INTOXICATING DRINKS.

1898, ch. 532, sec. 1. 1916, ch. 122.

242. The question whether or not any person or persons, house, com-
pany, association, or body corporate, as hereinafter described, may be
licensed in Cecil County, of this State, by whom or in which spirituous
or fermented liquors, intoxicating drinks or cider may be sold, or whether
or not no license to sell the same in said county shall be issued, shall be
submitted to the registered and qualified voters of said county on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-eight, and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in every fourth
year thereafter, at the election then to be held therein, upon the filing with
the Supervisors of Elections of said county, at least sixty days before said
election of a petition containing the signatures of, at least, twenty-five per
cent, of the registered and qualified voters of said county requesting such
submission, and the sheriff of said county shall, at least three weeks pre-
vious to the day of said election, cause public notice to be given of the
submission of said question, to be published in two newspapers of said
county, with a copy of this Act to be posted at the most public places
within each election district of said county, and the County Commission-
ers of said county shall pay for the publishing of said notice and copy of
this Act, and for printing said handbills and shall pay to said sheriff, for
said services, the sum of twenty-five dollars; but if for any reason, said
notice shall not be given, or not given in the manner herein prescribed,
such failure shall not affect the validity of this Act or operate to prevent
its taking effect.*

1898, ch. 532, sec. 2.

243. The ballots cast at said election to be counted as deciding for or
against the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, intoxicating drinks or
cider in said county, shall have printed or written on them the words
"For License" or "Against License," and the ballots cast "For License"
and the ballots cast "Against License," shall be carefully counted by the
judges of said election in the respective election districts of said county,
and the number of said ballots "For License" and the number of ballots
"Against License" shall be certified by them, and the return judges of
said election at their meeting after said election shall cast up the whole
vote "For License" and "Against License" in said districts, and shall
make a separate written return of said whole vote to the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Cecil County, and said clerk shall record said returns
among the records of his office, and shall prepare a certificate proclaiming
the result of such election in said county, and cause said certificate to be
published, within fifteen days after s.aid returns have been received by
him, once in all the newspapers published in said county.

*At the election in 1808 a majority of the votes cast was in favor of licenses. In
1902, 1906, 1910 and, 1914 a majority of the votes cast was against licenses at each
election.