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	act shall be inserted ; and the expenses of said elec-
	tion, including the advertisement and handbills
	aforesaid, shall be levied by the commissioners of
	said county and paid by the treasurer thereof.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That ballots for or
	against such sale shall have printed or written on	Ballots— how
	them the words " for license to sell spirituous or fer-	printed.
	mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or " against li-
	cense to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or alco-
	holic bitters," and the ballots so cast shall be care-
	fully counted by the judges of said election, and that
	said judges shall make a return of said votes to the
	Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's coun-
	ty, and said clerk shall immediately make procla-
	mation of the result of said election.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be
	found by said returns of judges of election, and
	proclamation of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for	Majority vote
	said county, that a majority of the votes in said	to determine.
	county has been cast against the sale of spirituous
	or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, that then
	it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, or
	body corporate, to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters in said county from and after
	the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or
	persons, or body corporate, shall be guilty of a viola-
	tion of this act, in selling spirituous or fermented
	liquors or alcoholic bitters in said county, he, she or	Pine for vio-
	they, on conviction thereof, shall be fined by the cir-	lation.
	cuit court, when such conviction is had, in the sum
	of not more than three hundred dollars nor less
	than fifty dollars for every such offence, in the dis-
	cretion of the court.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
	act or its provisions shall be construed to interfere
	in any manner, or to any extent, with the provisions	Not to inter-
	or operation of the several acts of the General As	fere with the
	sembly of this State, or to relieve or suspend, or re- peal the same, relative to the prohibition of the sale	provisions of other nets.
	of spirituous or fermented liquors, wines or ale, in
	the towns of Laurel and Hyattsville, in said county,