ROBERT M. McLAHE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said sum of twelve

hundred dollars be and is hereby made payable by the

treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the
president of the German Orphan Asylum of Balti-

How payable.

more city, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred

and eighty-five, and on the first day of June, eighteen

hundred and eighty-six.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 300.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of election

district number fourteen, or Linkwood, of Dorches-

ter county to determine by ballot whether spiritu-

ous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be

sold in said district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the question of whether or not

any person or persons, or any house, corporation, com-

Question sub-

pany or association, shall be allowed at any time to

mitted to vot-
ers.

sell, by himself, herself or itself, his, her or its clerk,

servant or agent, directly or indirectly, any intoxicat-

ing liquors, of whatever origin except as hereinafter

provided, may be licensed to sell spirituous or fer-

mented liquors in district number fourteen, or Link-

wood, in Dorchester county, shall be submitted to the

registered qualified voters of the said district at the

general election to be held on the first Tuesday after

Election— how
held.

the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and

eighty-four; and all the ballots cast at said election

on the question of license or no license, to be counted

as deciding for or against the sale of spirituous or fer-

mented liquors or alcoholic bitters, shall have printed or
written on them the words " For the sale of spirituous

Ballots — how
prepared.

or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters," or "Against

the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic

bitters ;" and the votes cast for the sale of spirituous

or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, and the votes

cast against the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors

or alcoholic bitters, shall be carefully counted and cer-