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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

determine said question in the affirmative, and to regulate the

sale thereof by druggists and pharmacists;

WHEREAS, much doubt exists in the mind of a large portion of

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the voters of Garrett county, whether the law known as the

" Local option law" of said county, passed at the session of the

legislature in eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three

hundred and ninety-nine; and,

WHEREAS, numerous petitions have been forwarded to this legis-

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lature, signed by parties who voted for the said law as well as.

against it, and it being deemed advisable on account of said un-

certainty, to re-submit the question and to grant another election,

in order that it may be definitely determined by ballot whether

local option shall exist, as it now does in said county; therefore,

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

That the question, whether or not any person or persons, house,

corporation, company or association may be licensed in Garrett.

county, by whom, or in which, spirituous or fermented liquors or

alcoholic bitters shall be sold, shall be submitted to the registered

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i voters of said county, at the next general election to be held on.

to a vote

the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-

vember, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, and the sheriff

of said county shall give notice of the time and purpose of this.

act, by advertisement inserted in all the newspapers published in

said county, and by handbills posted in each election district in

said county, at least ten days before said election, in which notice

a copy of this act shall be inserted.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all the tickets or ballots pre-

pared for said general election in said county, shall have printed

or written on them these words, in the following order; "For

liquor license," "Against liquor license," and every legally quali-

fied registered voter offering to vote at said general election, and

Ballots-

desiring to vote either for granting liquor license, or against

how
printed

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 ballots so cast

shall be carefully counted by the judges of said election, and the

return judges shall make a return of said votes to the clerk of the

circuit court for Garrett county, and said clerk shall immediately

make proclamation of the result of said election.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found by said

return of the judges of election and proclamation of said clerk

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tion of re-

that a majority of votes cast in said county has been cast against

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the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters,

that then it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, house,

corporation, company or association to sell spirituous or fermented

liquors or alcoholic bitters directly or indirectly at any place

within the limits of said county, but if it shall be found by the