JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 295

CHAPTER 176.
AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of the sec-
ond, third, fifth and sixth election districts of
Queen Anne's county to determine by ballot
whether spirituous or fermented liquors shall be
sold in any of said election districts, or a license
granted for the sale of the same.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the question of whether or not	Whether or
any person or persons, or any house, may be licensed	not.
in the second, third, fifth and sixth election districts
of Queen Anne's county, in the State of Maryland,
or in any one of said election districts herein
designated, by whom or in which spirituous or fer-
mented liquors may be sold, shall be submitted to	Shall be sub-
the voters of said election districts hereinbefore	mitted.
designated respectively, on the fourth Tuesday in April next, which election shall be held in accord-
ance with the law governing general elections of this
State, and that ballots for or against such sale shall
have printed on them 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 count-	Ballots so cast
ed by the judges of said general election, and that
said judges shall make a return of such vote to the
judges of the Circuit Court for said county, and if it
shall appear that either one or more of the said
election districts hereinbefore designated of said
county shall have cast a majority of votes against	Majority of
the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, then the	votes.
judges of the said Circuit Court shall make a procla-
mation of the renult of such election, defining there-
in the election district or districts, as the case may be.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall be
found by said returns of judges of election, and
proclamation of the judges of the said Circuit Court,
that a majority of the votes in any of said herein-
before designated election districts of said county, or
all of them, has been cast against the sale of spirit-	Cast against.
uous or fermented liquors, that then it shall not be