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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and other registration books or lists used at the last

general election for said districts shall be used by said

judges to determine the qualification of voters; pro-
vided further, that for district number one, or the

Fork, the voters shall reside within that part of said

district number one, or the Fork included within this

act, and the judges of election, or a majority of

them, shall be satisfied that said voters reside within

eaid territory, either from their own knowledge or from

satisfactory evidence furnished by parties offering to

Sheriff give no-
tice of election

vote; and the sheriff of Dorchester county shall give

at least ten days' notice of said elections as to the time

and place of holding the same by advertisement in two

newspapers published in said county, and he shall

furnish the said judges of election -with the necessary

poll books and registration lists, the same to be made

out by the clerk of the circuit court for Dorchester

county from the registration books for said districts

numbers one and twelve aforesaid now in his office ;

and at said elections the ballots shall have written on

or printed upon them the words " For the stock law,"

or " Against the stock law," and if it shall be ascer-

tained and returned to the clerk of said circuit court

by the judges of said elections that a majority of said

votes were cast for the " stock law " in either or both

Clerk make

of said districts, then the said clerk shall immediately

proclamation.

make proclamation of said result by notice in two

newspapers published within said county for one week,

and thirty days after said proclamation this law shall

go into effect in the district or territory casting a ma-

jority for the stock law.

Approved April 8, 1884.