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of those opposed to said proposition shall be sufficient evidence
of the right of such challenger and watcher to be present in
the polling room, such challengers and watchers shall have
the powers which are conferred upon challengers and watchers
by sections 62 and 69 of article 33 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of 1904.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted. That the Supervisors of
Elections shall, as soon as conveniently may be after receiving
and canvassing the result of any election at which the propo-
sition as to whether any political sub-division shall become
or continue to be Anti-Saloon Territory is submitted to the
voters thereof, proclaim the result of said election and publish
such proclamation in some newspaper published in the county,
if the owners of such newspaper will publish the same at the
current rates of advertisement, and shall record in a well
bound book, to be kept in their office by them and their suc-
cessors, the result of the vote upon said proposition and such
result may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by
such records or by the official certificate of the Supervisors
of Election, and in cases where such a record or certificate
shows that a majority of the legal voters voting upon said
proposition voted "yes" the same shall be conclusive evidence
that the political sub-division to which vote was applicable
has become Anti-Saloon Territory, unless the proclamation of
the Supervisors of Elections shall be reversed after a contest
of the election in accordance with the provisions of section 24
of this Act.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all the territory with-
in any political sub-division which has become Anti-Saloon Ter-
ritory shall continue to be Anti-Saloon Territory throughout
its entire extent, notwithstanding any charge that may be
made in the limits of any such political sub-division until the
legal voters thereof have voted, according to the provisions
of this Act, to discontinue such Anti-Saloon Territory, and
the following section shall be construed in harmony herewith.
In all Anti-Saloon Territory, during the time that it continues
to be Anti-Saloon Territory, the operation of all laws pro-
viding for the restriction, regulation or prohibition of the sale
of intoxicating liquor or for the issuing of licenses for the
sale of intoxicating liquor within any portion or the whole
of such territory, so far as inconsistent with its status as
Anti-Saloon Territory, shall be suspended.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That upon the filing in
the office of the Supervisors of Elections, at least sixty days
before an election in any political sub-division, of a petition