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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 329.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Dublin

district, number four, in Somerset county, to de-

termine by ballot whether intoxicating liquors

shall bo sold in said district, or license granted for

the sale of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question whether or not

any person or persons, at any house as hereinafter de-

scribed, may be licensed in Dublin district, in Som-

erset county, of this State, by whom or in which

spirituous or fermented liquors may be sold, or

whether or not no license to sell the same in said

Dublin district, in said county, shall be issued, shall

Submitted to

voters.

be submitted to the legally qualified voters in said

Dublin district at the election to be held on the first

Tuesday after the first Monday in November next,

for the election of a Representative in the next Con-

gress of the United States, which election shall be

held in accordance with the law governing such

elections in this State; and the sheriff of Somerset

county shall give notice of the tune and purpose and

Sheriff give
notice.

place of said election by handbills posted in at least

ten public places in faid district, and one at the

court-house door in Princess Anne, at least ten days

before said election, in which notices a copy of this

act shall be inserted, and two of said notices shall

be securely posted in or on the house wiiero said

election takes place, on the day of said election, so

that all persons can conveniently read the same;

Expense— how

and the expenses of said election, including the

paid.

costs of printing the handbills aforesaid, shall be

levied by the commissioners of said county, and

paid as other county expenseses are paid; and at

the election aforesaid the judges of election shall

provide and have on the day of said election a sep-

arate ballot-box, similar to the one used at other

elections in said district, in which only the ballots

cast under the provisions of this act shall be de-

posited by said judges of election; and after closing

of said polls the said ballots shall be counted and

returned as in cases of election under the laws of

this State.