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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

person or persons, house, company, association or body corporate,

as hereinafter described, may -be licensed in Cecil county of this

State, by whom or in which spirituous or fermented liquors, in-

toxicating drinks or cider may be sold, or whether or not no license

to sell the same in said county shall be issued, shall be submitted

to the registered qualified voters of said county on the first Tues-

day after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and

Submitted

ninety, and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No-

to vote

vember, in every fourth year thereafter, at the election then to be

held therein, and the sheriff of said county shall, at least three

weeks previous to the day of said election, cause public notice to-

te given of the submission of said question to be published in two

newspapers of said county, with a copy of this act, and also by

printed handbills containing said notice, and a copy of this act to-

be set up at the most public places within each election district

in said county; and the county commissioners of said county shall

pay for the publishing of said notice and copy of this act, and for

printing said handbills, and shall pay to said sheriff for said ser-

vices the sum of twenty-five dollars, but if for any reason said

notice shall not be given, or not given in the manner herein pre-

scribed, such failure shall not affect the validity of this act, or

operate to prevent its taking effect.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the ballots cast at said election

to be counted as deciding for or against the sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors, intoxicating drinks or cider in said county,

shall have printed or written on them the words "For license,"

or "Against license," and the ballots cast "For license," and the

ballots cast "Against license," shall be carefully counted by the

Ballots

judges of said election in the respective election districts of said

county, and the number of ballots "For license," and the number

of ballots "Against license," shall be certified by them; and the

return judges of said election at their meeting after said election

shall cast up the whole vote "For license" and "Against license"

in said districts, and shall make a separate written return of said

whole vote to the clerk of the circuit court for Cecil county, and

said clerk shall record said returns among the records of his office,

and shall prepare a certificate proclaiming the result of such

election in said county, and cause said certificate to be published,

within fifteen after days said returns have been received by him,

once in all the newspapers published in said county.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear by the returns

of said judges and certificate of said clerk that a majority of said

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votes have been cast "Against license," then the following sections

from section one hundred and seventy-nine to section one hundred

eighty-eight inclusive, shall be in force in .said county and stand

in the place and stead of sections one hundred and seventy-nine

to one hundred and eighty-eight inclusive, of article eight, of the