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amendments, and to add additional sections thereto, be, and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows.

57. The Treasurer of Prince George's County shall be en-
titled to a Clerk, to be appointed by himself, and the pay of
said Clerk shall be five hundred dollars, and the County
Commissioners shall levy an amount at their annual levy-
laying term sufficient to pay the salary of said Clerk, and the
said Treasurer shall have the right within twelve months
after the expiration of the term of his office, to return to the
County Commissioners of said county a list of all taxes un-
collected by him, together with all expenses attending the
same, and if upon examination by the said Commissioners are
found correct, and that the said Treasurer has complied with
the law requiring him to enforce the payment of same, they
shall receive the said list so returned, and release the said
Treasurer and the sureties on his bond from all liability on
account of the amount so returned by him, and place the said
taxes so returned in the hands of the Treasurer of said coun-
ty, to be collected and accounted for by him as other taxes
placed in his hands for collection.
Which were adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time, and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Senate bill entitled an Act to enable the qualified voters of
Kent County, to determine by ballot, whether spirituous or
fermented liquors shall be sold in said county, or in any elec-
tion district thereof, or a license granted for the sale of the
same,

Being upon its second reading,

Mr. Hepbron submitted the following amendments :

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Strike out all after the words "a bill," in the title, and in-
sert, "entitled an Act to enable the qualified voters of Kent
County to determine by ballot whether spirituous or fer-
mented liquors, or alcoholic bitters, shall be sold in said
county."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the question of whether or not any person or per-
sons, or any house may be licensed in Kent County, in this
State, by whom, or in which spirituous or fermented liquors,
or alcoholic bitters shall be sold, shall be submitted to the
registered voters of said county, at the general election, to be
held on the first Tuesday, after the first Monday in Novem-