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cil at least thirty days before the February 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 expiration 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 free-
holders in said town may at the next ensuing election, petition for a sub-
mission 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 decide. And under these conditions and provisions the ques-
tion of license or no license may be submitted at each and every annual
election. No person who is not a freeholder within the corporate limits
of the town of Friendsville and possessing all the other qualifications set
forth in this Act shall be entitled to vote on the license question.
See secs. 283-337.

1929, ch. 396.

204. The Mayor and Coiincil of Friendsville are hereby authorized
and empowered to close two alleys in Block X in the town of Friends-
ville, to wit, that alley running from First to Second Avenue and the
alley running from Oak Street to Chestnut Street in said town of Friends-
ville. And the Mayor and Council of Friendsville may provide for ascer-
taining whether any and what amount in value of damages will be caused
thereby to the owner or possessor of any property lying in said Block
Number X through which said alleys pass which ought to be compen-
sated, by the appointment of commissioners to assess the same and for
assessing and levying generally on the whole assessable property within
the said town of Friendsville, or especially on the property benefited, the
whole or any part of the damages and expenses incurred in closing the
said alleys. The Mayor and Council of Friendsville may have power
to grant appeals to the Circuit Court for Garrett County from the deci-
sion of any commissioners or other persons appointed by virtue of any
ordinances to ascertain the damages occasioned by the closing of said
alleys and for the securing to the person or persons injured the right, on
application within thirty (30) days from the return of the report of the
commissioners, to have decided by jury trial whether any, and what
damage he, she or they have sustained; to provide for the collecting and
paying of the compensation awarded to any person before said alleys
shall be closed, and to enact all ordinances from time to time necessary
and proper to the exercise of the powers granted in this Act; provided
that before the Mayor and Council of Friendsville proceed to execute any