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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

collected shall be paid to the informer and the other half to
the Board of County School Commissioners for the public
school fund of said county.

Effective.

SEC 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 22, 1898.

CHAPTER 105.
AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of the town of Laurel,
Prince Gjeorge's County, to determine by ballot whether
spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be
sold in said town, and to regulate the terms and conditions
on which the sale thereof may be made in case the majority
of the voters of said town shall determine said question in
the affirmative.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Submitted to
the qualified
voters.

land, That the question whether or not any person or persons,
house, corporation, company, or association may be licensed in
the town of Laurel, by whom or in which spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or alcoholic bitters shall be sold, shall be sub-
mitted to the qualified voters of said town, at the next election,
to be held on the first Monday in the month of April, in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the Mayor of said
town shall give notice of the time and purpose of this Act by
advertisement inserted in all the newspapers published in said
town, and by handbills posted in at least ten public places in
said town at least five days before said election, in which said
notice a copy of this Act shall be inserted; but a failure to give
such notice shall not invalidate the election.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all the tickets or ballots
prepared for said general election in said town shall have
printed or written on them these words, in the following order :
" For License," "Against License," and every legally qualified

Ballots.

voter, as provided in section 193 of Article seventeen of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as repealed and
re-enacted by the Act of 1890, offering to vote at said election,
and desiring to vote either for granting liquor license or against
granting liquor license in said town, shall erase from his ticket
or ballot, as he may elect, either the words " For License " or
the words "Against License," and the ballots so cast shall be
carefully counted by the judges of said election, and the said
judges shall make a return of said votes to the Mayor and City