WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 133

	CHAPTEE 93.
	AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Carroll
	county to determine by ballot whether spirituous
	or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be
	Bold in said county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the question as to whether
	any person or persons, or any house, may be licensed in Carroll county, in this State, by whom or in which spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters	Question to be submitted to legistered voters
	shall be sold, shall be submitted to the registered
	voters of said county on the Tuesday next after the
	first Monday in November next, eighteen hundred and eighty, which election shall be held in accordance
	with the law governing general elections in this State, and the sheriff of said county shall give notice	Give notice.
	of the time and purpose of said election, by adver-
	tisement inserted in the newspapers published in said
	county, and by handbills posted in each election dis-
	trict in said county, at least ten days before the said
	election, in which notice a copy of this act shall be
	inserted ; and the expenses of said election, includ-
	ing 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	printed
	fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters," or " against
	license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or al-
	coholic 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 for Carroll county, and
	said clerk shall immediately make proclamation of
	the result of said election.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found	Majority to
	by said returns of judges of election and proclama-	decide.
	tion of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said
	county that a majority of the votes in said county