ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-

four, which election shall be held in accordance with

the law governing general elections of this state, and

that ballots for or against such sale shall have printed

on them, or written on them, the words " For the sale

Ballots— how
prepared.

of spirituous or fermented liquors," or "Against the

sale of spirituous or fermented liquors," and that the

ballots so cast shall be carefully counted by the judges

of said general election, and that said judges shall

make a return of such vote to the judges of the circuit

court for said county, and if it shall appear that the

aforesaid Dublin district, number four, shall have cast

a majority of votes against the sale of spirituous or

fermented liquors, then the judges of the said circuit

Make procla-

court shall make a proclamation of the result of such

mation.

election.

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

by said returns, of judges of election and proclamation

of the judges of the said circuit court, that a majority

of the votes in the hereinbefore designated district of

said county has been cast against the sale of spirituous

or fermented liquors, that then it shall not be lawful

Unlawful to sell

for any person or persons or body corporate to sell

spirituous or fermented liquors in the said herein-

before designated Dublin district number four of Som-

erset county, voting by a majority against the selling

of the same.

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

persons or body corporate shall be guilty of a vio-

lation of this act in selling spirituous or fermented

liquors in the said election district in said county,

where the majority has been cast against such sale,

Penalty

they shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the

sum of not more than three hundred dollars nor less

than fifty dollars for every such offense, in the discre-

tion of the circuit court.

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

take effect immediately after it shall have been deter-

mined by a majority of votes cast at the said election

When effective.

in Dublin district number four, Somerset county,

whether or not spirituous or fermented liquors shall

not be sold as hereinbefore provided for.

Approved April 8, 1884.