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SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

sufficient recognizance before the justice, to prosecute
his appeal with effect.

Right of remo-
val of cause.

146. Any person arrested under section one hundred
and forty-three of this article, who shall before the
justice before whom he shall be taken, make oath that
he believes that a fair and impartial trial cannot be
had before any justice of the peace of the Tangier dis-
trict, may have his case removed to a justice of Dames
Quarter district.

Indictment.

147. Any person who shall violate the provisions of
section one hundred and thirty-nine of this article,
shall be liable to indictment in the circuit court for
Somerset county or may be tried before a justice of
the peace, but no person shall [be] twice prosecuted
for the same offence.

Vote on liquor
law.

148. At the election to be held in November next,
an election shall be held in said Tangier district for or
against the provisions of this act, at which every quali-
fied voter in said district shall be entitled to vote for
or against a prohibitory liquor law, the result of which
election shall be returned and certified according to law
and if at said election, a majority of the votes cast shall
be in favor of a prohibitory liquor law, then this act
shall be and remain in force, but if a majority of the
votes cast at said election in said district, shall be
against a prohibitory liquor law, then the governor
shall by proclamation make known the said result,
and from and after the first day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, the provisions of this act shall cease;
and be inoperative in the same manner as if the same
had not been enacted.

Approved April 4, 1870.