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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ters, directly or indirectly, at any place within the

limits of said county; but if it shall be found, by the

return of said judges of election and proclamation

of said clerk, that a majority of all the votes cast, as

When lawful.

prescribed in the preceding sections, in said county,

has been cast for the sale of said spirituous or fer-

mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, then the same

shall be sold, as allowed, under the license laws of this

state, subject to the provisions hereinafter mentioned

or prohibited, as now prohibited by law in said county.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or

persons, house, company, association or body corporate,

shall sell, directly or indirectly, any spirituous or fer-

mented liquors or alcoholic bitters within the limits

of said county, if a majority of all the votes cast shall

have been against the sale of liquors or bitters after

Penalty for vio-
lation.

the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and

eighty-four, he, she, they or it shall, on conviction

thereof, forfeit and pay, on conviction, a fine of not

less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars,

and costs of prosecution, or instead of such fine, im-

prisonment in the county jail for thirty days, or both,

in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in addition to the

respective amounts to be paid by any person or per-

sons, house, corporation, company or association, for

taking out license under article fifty-six of the Code

of Public General Laws, and the supplementary acts

thereto, relating to spirituous or fermented liquors by

retailers and oyster or eating houses, or under any

other section of said article, the said person or persons,

house, corporation, company or association shall, if he,

she, they or it intends to sell or barter spirituous or

fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or all combined,

in quantities more than a pint or less than a pint, or

Who to pay to

by the drink, that such applicant or applicants shall
pay to the clerk of the circuit court for Prince George's

county the sum of one hundred dollars for the use of

the public roads of Prince George's county before any

such license shall be granted; and if any person or

persons, house, corporation, company or association

shall open or keep any oyster house, cook-shop, vict-

ualing-house or lager beer saloon, or any other than

an ordinary at or in which spirituous or fermented

liquors or lager beer may be sold or bartered in quanti-

ties less than a pint at any one time, or by the drink,