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ber, 1879, 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 alcoholic bitters,"
or "against the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, or alco-
holic bitters," and that the ballots so cast shall be deposited
in a box provided for that purpose, carefully counted 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
of said county, and if it should appear that a majority of the
votes cast at said election are against the sale of spirituous
or fermented liquors, or alcoholic bitters, then the said Judges
of the Circuit Court for said county shall make a proclama-
tion of the result of such election.

Section 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 Circuit Court of said county, that a majority
of the votes in said county has been cast against the sale of
spirituous and fermented liquors, or alcoholic bitters, that
then it 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 Janu-
ary, 1880.

Section 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-
sons, or body corporate, shall be guilty of a violation of this
Act, in selling spirituous or fermented liquors, or alcoholic
bitters in said county, he, she or they on conviction thereof,
shall be fined by the Circuit Court where such conviction is
had, in the sum of not more than three hundred dollars, nor
less than fifty dollars, for every such offence, in the discre-
tion of the Court.

Section 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take ef-
fect as to the time of holding the election to take the sense of
the voters of said county, from and after the date of its pas-
sage; 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 bitters, shall or shall not be sold from and after
the first day of January, 1880.

Which were adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time, and

ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

The President announced the first order of the day to be

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 13, of Chapter
483, of the Acts of 1874, entitled an Act to repeal Article
81, of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Mary-
land, entitled "Revenue and Taxes," and to re-enact the