ROBERT M. McLA.NE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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lature, signed by parties who voted for the said law

as well as against it, and it being deemed advisable,

on account of said uncertainty, to resubmit the ques-

tion and to grant another election, in order that it

may be definitely determined, by ballot, whether local

option shall exist as it now does in said county ;

therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, 1 hat the question whether or not any

person or persons, house, corporation, company or
association may bo licensed in Prince George's county

Question sub-
mitted to voters

by whom or in which spirituous or fermented liquors

or alcoholic bitters shall be sold, shall be submitted to

the registered voters of said county on the fourth day

of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, which

election shall be held in accordance with the law gov-

erning general elections in this state, and the sheriff

of said county shall give notice of the time and pur-

pose of said election by advertisements inserted in

all the newspapers published in said county, and by

handbills posted in 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 ;

Expenses—

and the expenses of said election, including the

how paid.

advertisement and handbills aforesaid, shall be levied

by the commissioners and paid by the treasurer of

said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That ballots for or

against such sale shall have printed . or written on

them the words " For license to sell spirituous or fer-

mented liquors or alcoholic bitters," or "Against

license to sell spirituous or fermented liquors or alco-

Ballots—how

holic bitters," and the ballots so cast shall be care-

prepared.

fully counted by the judges of said election, and the

return judges shall make a return of said votes to the

clerk of the circuit court for Prince George's county,

and said clerk shall immediately make proclamation

of the result of said election.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be

found by said return of the judges of election and

proclamation of said clerk that a majority of votes

cast in said county has been cast against the sale of

spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters,

that then it shall not be lawful for any person or per-

When unlawful

sons, house, corporation, company or association to

sell spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bit-