FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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within three days thereafter, make a written return of such

vote to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick County,

and said clerk shall record said returns among the records

of his office, and if it shall appear that a majority of votes

Against

cast shall have been against the sale of spirituous or fer-

the sale.

mented liquors, then the clerk of said court shall prepare a

certificate proclaiming the result for such election in said

district and cause said certificate to be published once in

one newspaper published in said county, and the polls shall

be kept open at said election from eight o'clock a. m. until

six o'clock p. m.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear by the

return of said judges of election, and certificate of the clerk

of said court, that a majority of the votes, cast in the said.

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to sell

district shall be against the sale of spirituous or fermented

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

or body corporate, to sell directly or indirectly at any place,

or to give away at his, her or their place of business any

spirituous or fermented liquors, or intoxicating drinks of

any kind, nor shall it be lawful for the clerk of the Circuit

Court for Frederick County to issue a license for the sale of

spirituous or fermented liquors in said district, on or after

the first day of May in the year eighten hundred and

ninety -three.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-

sons or body corporate, shall sell directly or indirectly at

Shall sell

any place, or give away at his, her or their place of busi-

or give

ness, any spirituous or fermented liquors or intoxicating

away &c.

drinks of any kind, on or after the first day of May in the

year eighteen hundred and ninety-three (should the majority

of the votes cast at said election be against the sale of

spirituous or fermented liquors), he, she or they shall, on

conviction thereof in the Circuit Court for said county, be

fined uot less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred

dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the county commissioners

of said Frederick County, shall appoint three judges of

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election and two clerks, residents of said district, for said

judges of

special election, each of whom shall qualify by taking the

election.

following oaths respectively : I, A. B., do swear (or affirm)

that I will permit all persons to vote, who shall offer to vote

at the special election now to be held for Mt. Pleasant dis-

trict, in Frederick County, whose names shall appear on

the list of the voters furnished to me as required by law, as

qualified voters under the constitution and laws of this

State, and that I will not permit any person to vote at the

said election, whose name shall not be found upon the said