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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

on the taxable property of said county a sum of

money sufficient to pay the principal of said bonds

when and as they mature, and the bonds issued

under the provisions of this section shall not be

liable to be taxed for county or municipal pur-

poses.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the next elec-

tion for members of the House of Representatives

Submitted to

held in this State, the question of whether or

voters.

not the asylum mentioned in the preceding sub-

section shall be erected, shall be submitted to the

qualified voters of Allegany county, and that in

voting upon said question the words " For the In-

sane Asylum," or " Against the Insane Asylum,"

or words equivalent thereto, may be written or

Ballots — bow

printed on the ballots voted ; and for the purpose

prepared.

of determining whether or not a majority of the

legal votes voting upon said question are in favor

of erecting said asylum, the judges of election in

said county shall count and cast up the number of

votes in their respective districts for and against

the same, and shall keep said count in a separate

book from the count of the vote for Representa-

tives in Congress, and the return judges, when they

meet to count up the vote cast for Representatives,

shall also count up and ascertain, in a separate

book, the vote upon said question, and shall make

up a certificate for the County Commissioners of

said county, showing the number of votes cast in

the several election districts for and against said

To be record-

measure, and said certificate shall be recorded in

ed.

the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for

said county, and shall be evidence of the number

of votes cast for and against said project and if

it appears thereby that a majority of the votes cast

upon said subject were in favor of erecting said

Insane Asylum, then the board of County Com-

missioners shall, without delay, proceed to exercise

the powers vested in them by the aforegoing sub-

sections; but if a majority of the votes upon said

subject appear to be against the erection of an

"Insane Asylum," then the said County Commis-

sioners shall not exercise said powers.

Approved April 10, 1880.