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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 500.

AN ACT to prohibit the issuing of any license

for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors

at or within one-half mile of the village of Ash-

land, in Baltimore county, and to prevent the

sale of all kinds of intoxicating drinks in the

above described limits.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court

of Baltimore county shall not grant a license to

any person to sell spirituous or fermented liquors

of any kind at any place at or within one-half

mile, in any direction, of the village of Ashland,

Sale of spir-
ituous liquors

in said county, and that any person selling any
spirituous or fermented liquors, or any kind of in-

prohibited.

toxicating drink, whether of original manufacture

or of a mixed character, within the above described

limits, shall, on conviction, be subject to the same

fines and punishments now provided by the Code

of Public General Laws of Maryland for selling

spirituous or fermented liquors without license.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 501.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners

of Baltimore county to audit and settle the claim

of Augustus F. Dames against said county for

money expended by him in restoring the bridge

on Townsend avenue or Friendship lane, in said

county.

Preamble.

Whereas the bridge on Townsend avenue having
been washed away caused a complete interruption