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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

submitted to the qualified voters of said elec-
tion district on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, at the same time and under the
law governing the general election there to be
held, and that ballots cast for or against the
repeal of said fence law, shall have written or
printed thereon the words "Against the repeal
of the fence law," or "For the repeal of the
fence law," and that the ballots so cast shall

Ballots.

be carefully counted by the J udges of said Gen-
eral Election for said district, and that said
Judges shall make return thereof to the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for said county; and if it
shall appear that a majority of the votes so
cast in said district were against the repeal of
the fence law, then the law shall remain in
force; but if shall appear that a majority of
said votes were cast for the repeal of said
fence law, then said law shall be repealed, as
fully and effectively as if repealed by an act
of the General Assembly, and if the result
shall be in favor of the repeal of said fence

Proclamation.

law, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall im-
mediately make proclamation of the same by
publication once in some newspaper published
in said county, and this act shall take effect
five days after the date of said proclamation.

Approved April 7, 1886.