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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the tickets provided for in section two of this act, and all

other expense incident thereto shall be levied for and paid

by the county commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at the said election, the

legal and qualified voters of said county are authorized to

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cast a vote or ballot, for removal of county seat to La Plata,

a vote

or against removal of county seat to La Plata, which vote

or ballot shall be on tickets to be furnished by the county

commissioners as in this act provided ; which tickets shall

be printed separately and respectively, one set "for removal

of county seab to La Plata," and one set against removal of

county seat to La Plata " and said votes or ballots as cast

at said election, shall be counted by the judges appointed

by the county commissioners as hereinafter provided to act

as such at said election who shall make return of said votes,

or ballots to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Charles

County who shall within ten days thereafter, make procla-

mation of the result of said election by publication in the

newspapers published in said county and if it shall be found

by the said return of the judges and the proclamation of

said clerk that more votes or ballots were cast " Against

removal of county seat Jo La Plata " than " For removal of

county seat to La Plata, " then this act shall be nugatory

and of no effect, and if it shall be found by said returns and

the proclamation of the clerk of the Circuit Court that more

votes or ballots were cast " For removal of county seat to

La Plata," than "Against removal of county seat to La

Plata" thenceforth La Plata shall be the county seat of

said county and a court house and a jail, together with

necessary offices for the transaction of the public business,

shall be built at La Plata.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purposes only

of election hereinbefoie provided for, the Australian ballot

system as enacted by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight

of the acts of Assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety,

shall not prevail ; but that the said election shall be held

Australian
ballot law

under the general election law of the State of Maryland as

shall not

the same existed prior to the passage of said chapter five

prevail.

hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of Assembly of eighteen

hundred and ninety, and provided, that nothing herein con-

tained shall be construed to affect the said Australian ballot

system as to future elections in its application to Charles

County, but only for the election in this act hereinbefore

provided for: and the County Commissioners of Charles

County aforesaid are hereby empowered to appoint three

judges of election for each election precinct of said county,

whose duties shall cease and be at an end when they shall