ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 187

	Chapter 141.
	AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Washington
	county to determine by ballot whether Spirituous,
	Fermented or Intoxicating Liquors, or Alcoholic
	Bitters, shall be sold in said county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the question whether or not any
	person or persons, house, corporation, company or	Question sub- mitted to legal
	association, may be permitted to sell any spirituous,	voters.
	fermented or intoxicating liquors of any origin what-
	ever, or alcoholic bitters, at any time, within the limits
	of Washington county, in this state, shall be submitted
	to the registered and qualified voters of said Washing-
	ton county, at an election to be held on the fourth day
	of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and
	which election shall be held in accordance with and	Election — how
	subject to the law governing general elections in this	held.
	state; and the sheriff of said county shall give notice
	of the time and purpose of said election by advertising
	in at least two of the newspapers published in said
	county, and by handbills posted at prominent points
	in each election district of said county, at least ten	Act to be pub- lished.
	days before the said election, in which notice a copy
	of this act shall be inserted, and in said handbills, and
	the expenses of said election, including the advertise-
	ments and handbills aforesaid, shall be levied by the
	commissioners of said county and paid by the 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," or
	"Against the sale of intoxicating liquors," and the	Ballots — how
	ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the judges	prepared.
	of said election, and said judges shall make returns of
	said votes to the clerk of the circuit court for Wash-
	ington county, and said clerk shall immediately make
	proclamation of the results of said election.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be found
	by the returns of said judges of election and the proc-
	lamation of said clerk that the majority of all the
	votes cast in said Washington county are against the	How unlawful.
	sale of intoxicating liquors, then it shall not be lawful
	for any person or persons, house, corporation, company