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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

lished in said county, once a week for two successive

weeks, and by handbills posted in said election dis-

trict in Somerset county, where said election is to

take place, 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, including the no-

tices aud handbills aforesaid, shall be levied by the

commissioners of said county and paid by the col-

lector thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That ballots for or

against such sale shall have printed or written upon

them the words " for restricted license to sell spirit-

uous or fermented liquors," or " against license for

Make procla-

the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors," and the

mation.

ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the

judges of said election, and that said judges shall

make a return of said votes to the clerk of the Cir-

cuit Court for Somerset county, and said clerk shall

immediately make proclamation of the result of said

election.

SEC 4. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found

by said returns of judges of election, and proclama-

Majority vote

tion of said clerk, that a majority of said votes in

to decide.

said district hereinbefore mentioned have been cast

against license for the sale of spirituous or ferment-

ed liquors, that then, and in that event, it shall not

be lawful for any person or persons or body corpo-

rate, in the said district, to sell intoxicating, spiritu-

jus or fermented liquors, except cider and home-

made wines, on the premises where manufactured,

in quantities not less than a gallon, after the first

Jay of May next; and any person violating the

provisions of this section shall, upon indictment and

Fine for vio-

conviction therefor, be fined not less than one hun-

lation.

dred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and

be imprisoned in the county jail sixty days for each

and every offence ; and it shall be the duty of any

justice of the peace, upon information received and

confirmed by the oath of a credible witness, to have

any person violating any of the provisions of this
section arrested and committed to the county jail,

unless he or they shall give sufficient bail, or recog-

nizance with sureties, to be approved by said justice,