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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 113.

AN ACT to enable the Qualified Voters of Anne

Arundel county to determine by Ballot whether

Intoxicating Liquors or Alcoholic Bitters shall be

sold therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

Question sub-

bly of Maryland, That the question whether or not

mitted to vo-

any person or persons, house, corporations, company

ters.

or association may be permitted to sell any spiritu-

ous, fermented or intoxicating liquors of whatever

origin, or alcoholic bitters, at any time in Anne

Arundel county, in this State, shall be submitted to

the registered and qualified voters of said county at

a special election on the first Tuesday after the first

Monday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-

two, and which election shall be held in accordance

with the law governing general elections in this State,

Sheriff to give

and the sheriff of said county shall give notice of the

notice.

time and purpose of said election by advertising in all

the newspapers 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 notice a copy of this act shall be inserted, and

the expenses of said election, including the adver-

tisements and handbills aforesaid, shall be levied by

the commissioners of said county.

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

and against such sale shall have written or printed

upon them, " For the sale of intoxicating liquors,"

Ballots— how
prepared.

or " Against the sale of intoxicating liquors," and

the ballots so cast shall be 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 Aune Arundel county as provided by law

in cases of general election, and said clerk shall im-

mediately 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 elections and the

How ratified.

proclamation of said clerk that the majority of all

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, house, corporation, com-