HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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SEC, 131. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1886.

CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of Cecil
county to determine by ballot, whether
spirituous or fermented liquors or cider shall
not be sold in said county, or shall be sold
only as hereinafter described, and to repeal
all acts inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-four of the acts passed at
the January session, eighteen hundred and
eighty, shall not remain in force on and after
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, and that all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act
shall be repealed after said last mentioned
date; provided, however, that this act shall
not be construed to repeal said act of eighteen

Effective.

hundred and eighty, chapter two hundred and
seventy-four, prior to the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or to af-
fect any offence already committed, or which
may be committed before this act shall take
effect, but all such offences may be prosecuted
and punished under the law existing at the
time of the commission of said respective
offences; and provided, further, that if, for
any reason, this act shall not take effect on
the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, the said act of eighteen
hundred and eighty, chapter two hundred and
seventy-four, shall continue to remain in force
until other laws shall be enacted in lieu
thereof.

Repealed and
re-enacted.