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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

employees shall be as valid and effectual as if made

in legal tender money of the United States.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That any corpora-

tion before mentioned which shall directly or indi-

rectly enter into any contract, or make any pay-

Liable to in-

ment hereby declared illegal, shall be liable to in-

dictment.

dictment, and upon conviction thereof in any court

of competent jurisdiction, shall for the first offence

be fined one hundred dollars, and for each succeed-

ing offence not less than five hundred dollars nor

more than one thousand dollars.

Effective.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall

take effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 274.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Cecil

county to determine by ballot whether spirituous

or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be

sold in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the question of whether or

License ques-

tion

not any person or persons, or any house, corporation,
company or association shall be allowed at any time

to sell by himself, herself or itself, his, her or its

clerk, servant or agent, directly or indirectly, any

intoxicating liquors of whatever origin, except as

hereinafter provided, may be licensed to sell spir-

ituous or fermented liquors in Cecil county, shall be

Submitted to

submitted to the registered qualified voters of the

voters.

said county at the general election to be held on the

first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,

eighteen hundred and eighty; and all the ballots cast

at said election on the question of license or no

license, to be counted as deciding for or against the

sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic