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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

void and inoperative, and that all fines and penalties

imposed thereunder by any justice of the peace for said

county as unlawful and cannot be enforced ; and,

WHEREAS, the said H. Fillmore Lankford, clerk of the

Preamble.

Circuit Court for Somerset County hath refused and doth

still refuse to refund nuto the said George M. France said

fine, aforesaid, until au act of the General Assembly of the

State of Maryland being first had, so directing him,

wherefore,

SECTON 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Refund to

Maryland, That H. Fillmore Lankford, Esq., clerk of the

George M

Circuit Court for Somerset County, be and he is hereby

France

directed and required to pay and refund unto George M.

France the sum of forty-eight dollars now in his hands as

clerk, aforesaid, and paid to him by James D. Anderson,

justice of the peace for Somerset County, as a fine imposed

by him on the said George M. France for an alleged viola-

tion of the local oyster law of Somerset County, which said

law in that respect the Circuit Court for Somerset County

subsequeutly held inoperative and of no effect.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 28th, 1892.

CHAPTER 221.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of election district

number thirteen in Frederick County to determine by

ballot whet her spirituous or fermented liquors shall be sold

in said district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the question of whether or not any person

To vote or
sale of

or persons, or any house, or any corporation may be licensed

liquor

to sell spirituous or fermented liquors in election district

number thirteen of Frederick County, shall be submitted

to the registered qualified voters of the said district in the-

said county, at a special election to be held on the the first

Tuesday in August in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-

two, at the usual place for holding elections in said district,

and that ballots for or against such sale, shall have printed

or written on them the words " For the sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors," or against the sale of " Spirituous or

fermented liquors," and that the ballots so cast shall be

carefully counted by the judges of said election, who shall,