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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

oath, as provided in section 4, of violating this act, or any of
the provisions of this act, and bring said person or persons
before a justice of the peace in said county, to be dealt with
as herein provided.

Repeal.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act, shall be and are hereby repealed.

Effective.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall not go into
effect and be operative until the fifteenth day of March in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety five, and not then unless it
shall have received the assent of and be approved by a majority
of the legal and duly qualified votes of Somerset county, which

Question to be
voted on.

shall be ascertained at the election to be held in Somerset county
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, for the selection of a representative
for the first congressional district of Maryland, to the United
States House of Representatives; and in order to ascertain the

Duty of

sheriff,

sense of such voters as to whether this act shall go into effect
and be operative or not, the sheriff of Somerset county shall,
at least two weeks before said election, give notice by adver-
tisement in all the newspapers then printed and published in
Somerset county, of the passage of this act and its provisions
for submitting its adoption or not to the approval of the
majority of the legal qualified voters of said county who may
cast their ballots at said election; and said sheriff is also hereby
authorized and directed to have printed and distributed at the

Ballots.

several polling places in the several election districts of Som-
erset county, such number of ballots, with the words printed
on them, "For the act prohibiting the catching of oysters with
scoop, scrape, dredge or any similar instrument in Tangier
sound, in Somerset county, passed at the January session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four," and such number of ballots with the words,
"Against the act prohibiting the catching of oysters with
scoop, scrape, dredge or any similar instrument in Tangier
sound, in Somerset county, passed at the January session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and
ninety four," as may be necessary for all the voters of Somer-
set county; and at the said election, the judges of election
shall furnish and have at the several polling places ballot-
boxes in which only ballots cast under the provisions of this
act shall be deposited, and after closing the polls on said day of
election, the said ballots shall be counted and returned to the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset county, as in other elec-