WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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commissioners shall not exercise said powers, or

any of them.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all laws incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

repealed.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 300

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of certain

districts of Worcester county to determine by

ballot whether spirituous or fermented liquors

or alcoholic bitters shall be sold in said districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question of whether or not

any person or persons, or any house, or any cor-

poration, may be licensed to sell spirituous or fer-

Question
submitted to

mented liquors or alcoholic bitters in the first,

voters.

second, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth districts

of Worcester county, shall be submitted to the

registered qualified voters of the said districts of

said county at a special election to be held on the

first Tuesday in April, in the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-three, in said districts, and the ballots

for or against such sale shall have printed or

written on them the words " For the sale of spirit-

uous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters," or

Ballots— how

"Against the sale of spirituous or fermented

prepared.

liquors or alcoholic bitters;" and that the ballots

so cast shall be carefully counted by the judges of

said election, who shall, within three days there-

after, make a written return of such vote to the

clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester county,

and said clerk shall record said returns among the

records of his office; and if it shall appear that

there shall have been cast a majority of votes in

said districts against the sale of spirituous or fer-

mented liquors, then the clerk of said court shall

Clerk to pro-

prepare a certificate proclaiming the result cf such

claim result.

election in said districts of said county, and cause