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Proceedings of the Senate, 1892
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1892.] OF THE SENATE, 1281

expense of Said election, including costs of advertise-
ment, shall be levied upon the assessable property of
said county by its County Commissioners, and the
ballots for or against such proviso shall have printed
or written upon them 'For five hundred dollars,', or
'Against five hundred dollars,' and shall be separate
from the official ballots and the ballots cast shall
be deposited in a separate ballot box provided there-
for, and shall be carefully counted by the Judges
of said Election District, who shall make a return of
said votes to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Wicomico county and said Clerk shall immediately
make proclamation of the result of said election by
advertisement in some newspaper printed in said
county, and if it shall be found by the returns of the
judges of said election and the proclamation of said
Clerk, that a majority of votes oast in said election
district of said county are for five hundred dollars,
then no one in said district shall be considered a sub-
stantial freeholder, unless he owns in his own right
real estate or land at least to the amount of five
hundred dollars ($500.00) over and above all incum-
brances or liens, and if a majority of the votes cast
in said election district of said county are "against
five hundred dollars," then a substantial freeholder
shall be considered a proper signer to a certificate or
recommendation of any one desiring to sell liquor in
said district.

Managers on the part of the House of Delegates,

W. S. MOORE,
W. L. LAWS.
Managers on the part of the Senate,

E. S. TOADVIN,
W. P. GETTY,
WM. T. HEPBRON,
On motion by Mr. Toadvin,

The rules were suspended by yeas and nays, as
follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Posey,

Austin, Robinson,
Bennett, Rogers,
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