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ances and may be abated as such; and it shall be the part
of the judgment upon the conviction of the keepers, that the
place where the liquor is found to have been sold contrary to
this Act be shut up and abated until the keeper shall give bond
with sufficient security to be approved by the court in the penal
sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), payable to the State of
Maryland, conditioned that he will not sell intoxicating liquors
contrary to law, and will pay all fines, costs and damages
assessed against him for the use of Garrett county for any fine
or fines that may be assessed against him under this Act.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Garrett county are hereby authorized to use any part
of the fines and forfeitures collected for the violation of this
Act, for hiring detectives or secret service officers to secure the
enforcement of the same. And when there are no funds avail-
able from fines or forfeitures collected for the violation of this
Act, such County Commissioners are hereby authorized to
appropriate not more than two hundred dollars from the gen-
eral revenues fund for the purpose of enforcing the provisions
of this Act.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That any Supervisor of
Election, judge of election, police officer or other officer of the
law, who shall wilfully refuse or neglect or fail to discharge any
duty imposed by this Act, and any one who signs a petition, pro-
vided for in this Act, knowing he is not qualified to do so or
who files with the Supervisors of Elections any such petition or
any sheet or other part thereof, knowing that it contains the
signature of a person not qualified to sign the same, or who re-
ceived, requests or demands, or gives, offers or promises any re-
ward for signing or the refraining from signing of any such
petition, or who by treating or giving intoxicating liquors or
anything else of the same or different kind, or by threats to in-
jure another in person or property, or by betting or other de-
vise, either directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to in-
fluence any one to sign or refrain from signing any such peti-
tion shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more
than two hundred dollars ($200), or imprisoned in the county
jail for not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or be
both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. If
any person shall be convicted of violating any provisions of this
section and shall subsequently violate any provisions of this
section for such second and each subsequent violation he shall
upon conviction thereof be fined not less than twenty dollars
nor more than two hundred, and imprisoned in the county jail
for not less than ten days nor more than ninety days.