WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 92.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Harford

county to determine by ballot whether intoxi-

cating liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be sold

therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the question whether or not

any person or persons, house, corporation, company

or association may be permitted to sell any spiritu-

ous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of whatever

origin, or alcoholic bitters, at any time in Harford

county, in this State, shall be submitted to the regis-

Submitted to

tered and qualified voters of said county, at the gen-

voters.

eral election to be held on the first Tuesday after

the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred

and eighty-two. And the Sheriff of said county

shall give notice of the time and purpose of said

Sheriff give

election by advertisement inserted in all the news-

notice.

papers published in said county, and by handbills

posted in each election district in said county, at

least ten days before the said election, in which no-

tice a copy of this act shall be inserted; and the

expenses of said election, including the advertise-

ments and handbills aforesaid, shall be levied by

the Commissioners of said county and paid by the

Treasurer thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the ballots for

and against such sale shall have printed or written

upon them, for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or

against the sale of intoxicating liquors; and the bal-

lots so cast shall be deposited in a separate ballot-

Ballots — how

box provided therefor, and the said ballots shall be

prepared.

carefully counted by the judges of said election, and

said judges shall make a return of said votes to the

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Harford county, and

said clerk shall immediately make proclamation of

the result of said election.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be

found by the returns of said judges of election and

the proclamation of said clerk, that the majority of

How ratified.

the votes cast in said county are against the sale of

intoxicating liquors, that then it shall not be lawful

for any person or persons, any house, corporation,