WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 475

	CHAPTER 324.
	AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Mont-
	gomery county to determine by ballot whether
	intoxicating liquors shall be sold in said county,
	or license granted for the sale of the same.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That to ascertain the sense of the	For or a-
	people of Montgomery county whether license shall be granted to sell intoxicating liquors in said county	gainst liquor license.
	or not, the legally qualified registered voters of said
	county, at the next general election, to be held on
	the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
	month of November, eighteen hundred and eighty,
	shall be authorized to cast their votes either for
	granting liquor license or against granting liquor license in said county ; and all the tickets or ballots
	prepared for said general election in said county shall have printed or written on them these words, in	Ballots — how prepared.
	the following order: " For liquor license," "Against
	liquor license," and every legally qualified registered voter offering to vote at said general election, and
	desiring to vote either for granting liquor license or
	against granting liquor license in said county, shall
	erase from his ticket or ballot, as he may elect,
	either the words " For liquor license" or the words
	"Against liquor license," and the votes so cast for
	liquor license and the votes so cast against liquor
	license shall be counted and certified to by the
	judges of said election, in like manner as the other
	votes cast at said election, and by the said judges of
	said election shall be returned to the clerk of the
	Circuit Court for said county, to be recorded and
	carefully kept in his office; and the clerk of the
	Circuit Court for said county, and the Register of
	Wills of said county, shall jointly sum and add up
	the votes so cast at said election for liquor license,
	and against liquor license, and they shall, within ten days after said election, jointly proclaim in two	Jointly pro-
	newspapers printed in said county, the number of	claim.
	votes cast at said election " For liquor license," and
	the number of votes cast at said election "Against
	liquor license.