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Effective.
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SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved February 21st, 1894.
CHAPTER 36.
AN ACT to enable the registered qualified voters of Cecil
County to determine by ballot whether spirituous or fer-
mented liquors, or cider shall be sold in said County.
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Question to
be voted on.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the question whether or not any person or
persons, house, company, association or body corporate, as
hereinafter described, may be licensed in Cecil county, of this
State, by whom or in which spirituous or fermented liquors,
intoxicating drinks or cider may be sold, or whether or not no
license to sell the same in said county shall be issued, shall be
submitted to the registered qualified voters of said county on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November in every fourth year thereafter, at
the election then to be held therein; and the Sheriff of said
county shall, at least three weeks previous to the day of said
election, cause public notice to be given of the submission of
said question, to be published in two newspapers of said
county; also by printed handbills containing said notice, to be
set up at the most public places within each election district
of said county; and the County Commissioners of said county
shall pay for the publishing of the said notices, and for print-
ing said handbills, and shall pay the said Sheriff for said ser-
vices the sum of twenty-five dollars; but if for any reason
said notice shall not be given, or not given in the manner
herein prescribed, such failure shall not affect the validity of
this act, or operate to prevent its taking effect.
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