ELI HU E, JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

eluding the costs of such advertisements and
handbills and the cost of said sheriff, shall be
paid by the county commissioners of said
county ; but if for any cause said notice shall
fail to be given, such failure shall not effect
the validity of this act or operate to prevent its
taking effect.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the ballots cast
at said election on the question of license or no

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license to be counted as deciding for or against
the sale or gift of spirituous or fermented liquors
or intoxicating drinks in said county, shall have
printed or written on them, "For License" or
"Against License," and the votes cast "For
License," and the votes cast "Against Li-
cense," shall be carefully counted by the judges
of said election in the respective precincts and
districts of said county, and the number of votes
"For License," and the number of votes
"Against License," shall be certified by them ;
and the return judges of said election, at their
meeting, after said election shall cast up the
whole vote for license and against license, in
said precincts and districts, and shall make a
separate written return of said whole vote to the
clerk of the circuit court for Harford county,
and said clerk shall record said returns among
the records of his office, and shall prepare a cer-
tificate proclaiming the result of such election
in said county, and cause said certificate to be
published, within ten days after said returns

Vote to be
certified and
recorded.

have been received by him, once in all the news-
papers published in said county ; provided, how-
ever, that the vote of the city of Havre-de-Grace
shall determine the question for that city as to
whether the law, hereinafter provided for, by a
vote for license, or the law, hereinafter provided
for, by a vote against license, shall be the law
for said city but the vote of said city shall not be
counted so as to effect the result of the vote cast
for or against license in the other part of the
county.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if it shall

Proviso.

appear by the returns of said judges and certifi-
cate of said clerk that a majority of said votes
have been cast against license for the sale of
spirituous or fermented liquors or intoxicating
drinks, then the following sections, from section

Certain sec-
tions to be
added.