ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 350.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Charles

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 w'hether or not any

person or persons, house, corporation, company or

association, may be permitted to sell any spirituous,

fermented, or intoxicating liquors of any origin what-

ever, or alcoholic bitters, at any time, within the limits

Submitted to

of Charles county in this state, shall be submitted to

voters.

the registered and qualified voters of said county at

an election to be held on the first Tuesday, being the

fourth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-five, and which election shall be held in

accordance with, and subject to the law governing

general elections in this state; and the sheriff of said

county shall give notice of the time and purpose of

Give notice.

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 days before the said election,

in which notice, to be published in said newspapers, a

copy of this act shall be inserted, and the expenses of

Levy expenses.

said election, including the advertisements and hand-

bills aforesaid, shall be levied by the commissioners

of said county, and paid by the treasurer thereof.

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

against such sale shall have written or printed upon

Ballots.

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

"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 returns of

Make returns.

said votes to the clerk of the circuit court of Charles

county, and said clerk shall immediately make pro-

clamation 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 pro-
clamation of said clerk that the majority of all the

votes cast in said Charles, county are against the sale

of intoxicating liquors, then it shall not be lawful for

Not lawful.

any person or persons, house, corporation, company