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	bitters, shall have printed or written on them the
	words " For the sale of spirituous or fermented
	liquors or alcoholic bitters," or " Against the sale of
	spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters,"
	and the votes cast for the sale of spirituous or
	fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, and the
	votes cast against the sale of spirituous or fer-
	fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, shall be care-
	fully counted and certified to by the judges of said
	election, and that said judges shall make a written
	return of such vote to the clerk of the Circuit Court
	for Cecil county, and said clerk shall record said re-
	turns among the records of his office; and if it shall
	appear that a majority of the votes cast as aforesaid	Majority to
	are against the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors	determine.
	or alcoholic bitters, then the clerk of said court shall
	prepare a certificate proclaiming the result of such
	election in said county, and cause said certificate to
	be published within ten days after the returns have
	been received by him, once in all the newspapers
	published in said county.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear
	by the returns of said judges of election and certifi-	When un-
	cate of the clerk of said court, that a majority of	lawful.
	the votes as prescribed in the preceding section have
	been cast against the sale of spirituous or fermented
	liquors or alcoholic bitters, then it shall not be law-
	ful for any person or persons, or any house, company
	or association or body corporate, to sell directly or
	indirectly at any place, or to give away at his, her,
	their, or its place of business, any spirituous or fer-
	mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or intoxicating
	drinks of any kind (cider excepted) within the limits
	of Cecil county, after the first day of May, in the year
	eighteen hundred and eighty-one; nor shall any
	license be issued or granted for the sale of the same
	in said county after the first day of May, in the
	year eighteen hundred and eighty-one ; but if it shall appear by the returns of said judges of election and	Remain in
	certificate of the clerk of said court that a majority	force
	of the votes as prescribed in the preceding section
	have been cast for the sale of spirituous or fer-
	mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, then the present
	license law shall remain in full force.