PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1111

CHAPTER 657.

AN ACT to enable the registered and qualified voters of Charles
County, to determine by ballot at a special election to be held
for the purpose, whether or not spirituous, fermented, malt,
or any intoxicating liquors shall be bartered or sold, given,
away or otherwise disposed of in said Charles County from
and after the thirtieth day of April, in the year nineteen hun-
dred and fifteen; to prescribe the time, place and manner of
holding said special election; and, in the event the majority
of the ballots cast at said special election shall be "Against,
License,'' prohibiting the sale, giving away or otherwise dis-
posing of such liquors, from and after the thirtieth day of
April, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, except as.
permitted by the provisions of this Act, and fixing the pen-
alties to be enforced against any person or persons who shall,
from and after the thirtieth day of April, in the year nine-
teen hundred and fifteen, sell, give away or otherwise dispose
of any such liquors in said Charles County, contrary to the
provisions of this Act; and repealing all laws and parts of
laws heretofore enacted and now in force in this State which,
permit or regulate the sale, giving away or otherwise dis-
posing of any such liquors in said Charles County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the question whether or not any person or persons,,
corporation, house, company, association or club shall be allowed
to barter or sell, directly or indirectly give away or otherwise
dispose of, except as hereinafter provided, any spirituous, fer-
mented, malt or intoxicating liquor, of whatever origin, in said
Charles County, from and after the thirtieth day of April, in
the year nineteen hundred and fifteen; (and any liquors within
the meaning of this Act shall be regarded as intoxicating which
shall contain more than two per cent, of alcohol), shall be
submitted to the registered and qualified voters of said Charles
County at a special election to be held in said County on Satur-
day, the sixteenth day of May, in the year ninteen hundred
and fourteen; of which not less two weeks notice shall be given;
by the Supervisors of Elections for said Charles County in
at least two newspapers, published in said Charles County,
and also by printed handbills containing said notice to be
posted at the most public places within each election district
of said County; provided, nevertheless, that if, for any reason,
said notice shall not be given or not given in the manner herein
prescribed, such failure of publication of said notice shall not.