ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tect it to the best of his ability against all
frauds and unfairness ; any violation of the
terms of said oath shall be deemed a misde-
meanor, and shall, on conviction, subject the
offender to punishment by a fine of not less
than five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for not
less than one month nor more than six months,
or to both fine and imprisonment, in the dis-
cretion of the court. The said judges of elec-
tion shall return the ballots to the governor of
the state, and one of the said poll-books con-
taining the certificate above mentioned to the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city,
and the other to the clerk of the circuit court
for Baltimore county.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
question of whether that portion of Baltimore
county described in the second section of this
act shall be annexed to and become a part of

When deem-
ed a misde-
meanor.

Baltimore city, shall be submitted to the quali-
fied registered voters residing within the said
portion of Baltimore county, at a special elec-
tion to be held for this purpose on the third
Tuesday in May, 1888, for which election there
shall be one polling place in each one of the
existing election precincts of Baltimore county,
embracing any part of the territory described

Who to be
submitted to.

in the second section of this act ; and all persons
entitled to vote at said election shall vote at the
polling place within the election precinct in
which they are or shall be registered, and all
the provisions contained in section four of this
act for the holding of the special election there-
in mentioned, and for ascertaining and declar-
ing the result thereof, shall be applicable to the
election to be held under this section, except
that the judges and clerks of election shall be
residents of and voters in that portion of Balti-
more county described in the second section of
this act, and if it shall appear by the proclama-
tion of the governor, so to be issued, that a ma-
jority of all the votes cast at the election provided
for in this section were cast for the city exten-
sion, then from and after the first day of June,
1888, all that part of Baltimore county described

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