ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

•cation thereto, at a special election to be held on
the third Tuesday in April, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, and the county commissioners

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of Dorchester county are hereby authorized and
directed to appoint three judges for said election,
which shall be conducted in accordance with the
requirements of the law regulating elections,
and the poll and other registration books, or lists,
used at the last general election f or said district,
shall be used by said judges to determine the
qualification of voters ; provided further, that
the voters shall reside within that part of said
Fork district included in this act, and the judges
of election, or a majority of them, shall be satis-
fied that said voters reside within said terri-
tory, either from their own knowledge, or from
evidence furnished by persons offering to vote ;

Appoint
judges.

and the sheriff of Dorchester county shall give
at least ten days' notice of the time and place
of holding said election, by advertisement in one
newspaper published in said county ; and he
shall furnish said judges of election with the
necessary poll-books and registration list, the
same to be made out by the clerk of the circuit
court for Dorchester county from registration
book for said district number one, or fork, now
in his office ; and at said election the ballots
shall have written or printed on them the words
"For the stock law," or "Against the stock
law;" and if it shall be ascertained and re-
turned to the clerk of said circuit court, by the
judges of said election, that a majority of said
votes were cast against the "Stock law," then
the law as existing shall continue in full force
and virtue in said territory specified in this act;
but if it shall be ascertained and returned to
the clerk of said circuit court by the judges of
said election that a majority of said votes were
cast in favor of " Stock law," then the said

Give notice.

clerk shall immediately make proclamation of
said result, by notice in one newspaper, pub-
lished within said county for one week, and ten
days after said proclamation this law shall go
into effect in that part of Fork district speci-
fied in this act ; and all acts or parts of acts in-
consistent with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved April 4, 1888.

Make procla-
mation.