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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 8 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 majori-

ty of all the votes cast in any one or more of the

election districts of said county are against the

sale of intoxicating liquors, then it shall not be

When unlaw-

lawful for any person or persons, house, corpora-

ful to sell.

tion, company or association to sell directly or in-

directly at any place within the limits of the said

district or districts of said county, any spirituous,

fermented or intoxicating liquors of any origin

whatever, or alcoholic bitters, after the first day

of May, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-

three; but if it shall be found by the returns of

said judges of election and the proclamation of

said clerk of said court, that the majority of all

the votes cast, as prescribed in the preceding sec-

Sold or pro-

ond section, in any one or more of the election

hibited.

districts of said Howard county, have been cast

for the sale of intoxicating liquors, then the same

shall be sold or prohibited, as now permitted to be

sold or prohibited by law, and not otherwise, in

such district or districts in said county.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or

persons, house, company, association or body cor-

porate shall sell, directly or indirectly, any spirit-

uous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or

intoxicating drinks of any kind, within the limits

of any election district of said Howard county

where a majority of all the votes cast shall have

been cast against the sale of intoxicating liquors,

on or after the first day of May, in the year eigh-

teen hundred and eighty -three, he, she, they or it

shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay on the

Penalty for
violation.

first conviction a fine of not less than fifty dollars

nor more than three hundred dollars, and costs of

prosecution; or instead of such fine imprisonment

in the county jail for thirty days, or both, iu the

discretion of the court; and on the second and

every subsequent conviction not less than one

hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dol-

lars, and in addition to such fine, imprisonment

in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more

than ninety days, in the discretion of the court ;

and on failure to pay any such fine as herein de-