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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

fort of the inmates, and for the regulation of all mat-

ters connected with the general management of said

jail.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 333.

AN ACT to enable the Qualified Voters of St. Mary's

county to determine by ballot whether Intoxicating

Liquors or Alcoholic Bitters shall be sold therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question whether or not any

Question sub-
mitted to voters

person or persons, house, corporations, company or

association may be permitted to sell any spirituous,

fermented or intoxicating liquors of whatever origin,

or alcoholic bitters, at any time in St. Mary's county,

in this state, shall be submitted to the registered and

qualified voters of said county at a special election on

Saturday, the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hun-

dred and eighty-four, and which election shall be held

Election— how

in accordance with the law governing general elec-

held.

tions in this state, and the sheriff of said county shall

give notice of the time and purpose of said election by

advertising in all the newspapers published in said

county, and by handbills posted in each election dis-

trict in said county, at least ten days before the said

election, in which notice a copy of this act shall be

inserted, and the expenses of said election, including

the advertisements and handbills aforesaid, shall be

levied by the commissioners of said county.

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

against such sale shall have written or printed upon

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

Ballots— how

"Against the sale of intoxicating liquors," and the

prepared.

ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the judges

of said election, and said judges shall make a return

of said votes to the clerk of the circuit court of St.

Mary's county as provided by law in cases of general