ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 371.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay the claim of Mc-

Dowell & Co., of Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby author-

ized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the

To par.

State of Maryland, to pay McDowell & Co., of Baltimore city, the

sum of seventy-one dollars and seventy cents, for carpets fur-

nished for the use of the State house.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 373.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of the several election dis-

tricts of Worcester county to determine by ballot whether ar-

ticle twenty-four, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-

land, title " Worcester county," sub-title " Fences," shall apply

and be in force in said election districts of said county.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the question as to whether the provisions of article twenty-

four, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wor-

cester county," sub- title "Fences," shall apply and be in force,

shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said county at the

next ensuing election for representatives in congress of the United

States, and the ballots at said election shall have written or printed

To submit.

upon them the words, "For a fence law," or "Against a f ence law,"

and the judges of election shall keep a list of ballots and care-

fully count and cast up the same and make return thereof to the

clerk of the circuit court for Worcester county, who shall make

proclamation of the result of said election by districts, which said

proclamation shall be published in at least two newspapers of gen-
eral circulation published in said county for three successive

weeks.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found that a ma-

jority of the votes so cast in any one or more of the election dis-

tricts of Worcester county shall be in favor of said fence law,

To remain

then in that case article twenty-four, of the Code of Public Local

in force.

Laws of Maryland, title " Worcester county," sub-title " Fences,"

shall be and remain in force in said election district or districts in

which it shall be ascertained that a majority of the votes have been

cast in favor of said fence law.