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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and every offence; and it shall be the duty of any

justice of the peace, upon information received and

confirmed by the oath of a credible witness, to have

any person violating any of the provisions of this

Have person
arrested and

section arrested and committed to the county jail,

committed.

unless he or they shall give sufficient bail or recog-

nizance, with sureties to bo approved by said justice

of the peace, to appear before the Circuit Court at

the next succeeding term thereof, to answer said

charge.

SUB-SECTION 2. On the day of the election for

representative in Congress of the United States, to

be held in November, in the year eighteen hundred

Ballots— how
prepared.

and eighty-two, the judges of the election in Fair-

mount district, number six, in Somerset county, shall

receive tickets written or printed from the legal

voters thereof, labeled "For license" or "Against

license," and shall deposit said tickets in a separate

box provided for that purpose, and said tickets so

received shall be counted and returned and certified

according to law to the clerk of the Circuit Court

of Somerset county, and the same notice shall be

given by the sheriff of this election as is required in

Election-

the case of other elections, and said elections shall in

how conduct-
ed.

all respects be subject to and governed by the elec-

tion laws of this State, so far as they are applicable

thereto.

SUB-SECTION 3. If at said election as named in the

preceding section, a majority of the votes in the said

Fairmount district, number six, hereinbefore men-

tioned, shall be against license, then the provisions

of this act shall continue in force in said district,

How effective.

and no license shall be granted therein to sell or

otherwise dispose of any intoxicating, spirituous or

fermented liquors as provided against in the first

sub-section thereof; but if a majority of the voters

of said district shall be for license, then license may

be granted to sell spirituous liquors in the same

When license

manner as now allowed by chapter four hundred

may be grant-
ed.

and twenty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and

seventy four.

SUB-SECTION 4. All licenses granted after the

passage of this act in said district hereinbefore men-

Licenses—

tioned shall cease and become void after the first

when to cease.

day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,

and the Comptroller of the Treasury shall refund