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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

original line and the line hereby formed, who hereto-

fore voted or were entitled to vote at Swanton, in

Place of voting.

district number one, shall after having been duly
registered upon the registration books of election dis-

trict number ten, be entitled to vote at all elections

hereafter to be held at Deer Park, in election district

number ten.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 326.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of the Fourth

or Chapel District of Talbot county to determine,

by ballot, whether spirituous or fermented liquors

shall be sold in said district, or a license granted

for the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question whether or not

any person or persons or any house may be li-

censed in the fourth or Chapel district of Talbot

county, by whom or in which spirituous or fermented

Question sub-
mitted.

liquors may be sold shall be submitted to the voters

of said election district on the ninth day of July, in

the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, which elec-

tion shall be held in accordance with the law govern-

ing general elections in this state; and that ballots for

or against such sale shall have printed or written on

them the words "For the sale of spirituous or fer-

mented liquors, or "Against the sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors," and that the ballots so cast shall be

counted by the judges of said election; and that said

judges shall make a return of such vote to the judges

Judges make

of the circuit court for Talbot county; and if it shall

proclamation.

appear that a majority of the ballots cast are against

the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, then the

judges of the said circuit court shall immediately

make proclamation of the result of said election.