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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tified to by the judges of said election, and that said

judges shall make a written return of such vote to the

Record returns

clerk of the circuit court for Dorchester county, and

said clerk shall record said returns among the records

of his office; and if it shall appear that a majority of

the votes cast as aforesaid are against the sale of spir-

ituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, then

the clerk of said court shall prepare a certificate pro-

claiming the result of such election in said district,

and cause said certificate to be published within ten

days after the returns have been received by him once

in all the newspapers published in said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear

by the returns of said judges of election and certificate

of the clerk of said court that a majority of the votes

as prescribed in the preceding section have been cast

against the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, or

When unlawful

alcoholic bitters, then it shall not be lawful for any .

person or persons, or any house, company or associa-

tion, or body corporate, to sell directly or indirectly at

any place, or to give away at his, her, their or its

place of business any or fermented liquors or alcoholic

bitters, or intoxicating drinks of any kind, (cider ex-

cepted,) within the limits of district number fourteen,

or Linkwood, after the first day of May, in the year

eighteen hundred and eighty-five, nor shall any license

be issued or granted for the sale of the same in said

district after the first day of May, in the year eighteen

When lawful.

hundred and eighty-five; but if it shall appear by the

returns of said judges of election and certificate of the

clerk of said court that a majority of the votes as pre-

scribed in the preceding section have been cast for the

sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic

bitters, then the present license law shall remain in

full force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or

persons, house, company, association or body corpo-

rate shall sell, directly or indirectly, at any place, or

give away at his, her, their or its place of business,

any spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bit-

Penalty for vio-
lation.

ters, or intoxicating drinks of any kind (cider ex-

cepted), within the limits of district number fourteen,

or Linkwood, on or after the first day of May, in the

year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, he, she or they

shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay on the first

conviction a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor