JOHN LEE CARROLL. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 271

tered voters of said county, at the Congressional
election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, and that ballots for or against such sale shall have printed on them or written on them the	For or against
words : " For the Bale of spirituous or fermented
liquors or alcoholic bitters," or " Against the sale of
spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters,'
and that the ballots so cast shall be deposited in a box
provided for that purpose, and carefully counted by the judges of said Congressional election, and that
said judges shall make a return of such vote to the	Shall make
judges of the Circuit Court of said county, and if	return.
it should appear that a majority of the votes cast at
said election are against the sale of spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, then the said	The said
judges of the Circuit Court for said county shall j	judges.
make a proclamation of the result of such election.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall be
found by said returns of judges of election and proc-
lamation of the judges of the Circuit Court of said
county that a majority of the votes in said county
has been cast against the sale of spirituous and fer-	Has been cast
mented liquors and alcoholic bitters, that then it	against.
shall not be lawful for any person or persons or body
corporate to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or
alcoholic bitters in said county, from and after the
first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
SEO. 3. And be it enacted. That if any person or
persons or body corporate shall he guilty of a viola-	Shall be
tion of this act, in selling spirituous or fermented	guilty.
liquors or alcoholic bitters in said county, he, she or
they on conviction thereof shall be fined by the Cir-
cuit Court whefe such conviction is had in the sum
of not more than three hundred dollars nor less than	Penalty.
fifty dollars for every such offence, in the discretion
of the court.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect as to the time of holding the election, to take	In force.
the sense of the voters of said county from and after
the date of its passage, and as for the time when the
operations of said act, as to the time when the sale
of spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bit-	Shall or shall
ters shall or shall not be sold from and after the first	not.
day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved April 1, 1878.