ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 180.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Garrett

county to determine by ballot whether Intoxicating

Liquors or Alcoholic Bitters shall be sold therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question of whether or not

any person or persons, house, corporation, company or
association may be permitted to sell any spirituous,

Question of
selling liquors

fermented or intoxicating liquors of whatever origin,

referred to the
qualified voters

or alcoholic bitters, at any time, in Garrett county, or

in any of the election districts thereof, shall be sub-

mitted to the registered and qualified voters of the

county, and the various election districts thereof, at

the general election to be held on the first Tuesday

after the first Monday in November, in the year

eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in said county, and

in each election district thereof; and the sheriff of

said county shall give notice of the time and purpose

of said election, by advertising in all the newspapers

Publish notice

published in said county, and by handbills posted in

of election.

each election district in said county, at least ten days

before the said election, in which notice a copy of this

act shall be inserted; and the expenses of said elec-

tion, including the advertisements and handbills afore-

said, shall be levied by the county commissioners of

said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the ballots for and

against such sale shall have written, or printed upon

Ballots — how

them, " For the sale of intoxicating liquors," or

prepared.

" Against the sale of intoxicating liquors," and the

ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the

judges of said election; and said judges shall make a

return of said votes to the clerk of the circuit court

for Garrett county, as provided by law, in cases of

general elections, and said clerk shall record said re-

turns among the records of his office, and if it shall

appear that either one or more of said election districts

shall have cast a majority of votes against the sale of

intoxicating liquors, then the clerk of said court shall

prepare a certificate proclaiming the result of such

election in said districts, and cause said certificate to

be published once in each newspaper published in said

county.