204 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 122

CHAPTER 122.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1
of Chapter 532 of the Acts of 1. 898, entitled "An Act to
enable the registered qualified voters of Cecil County to
determine, by ballot, whether spirituous or fermented liquors
or cider shall be sold in said County. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1 of Chapter 532 of the Acts of 1898, en-
titled "An Act to enable the registered qualified voters of Cecil
County to determine, by ballot, whether spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or cider shall be sold in said County, " be, and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows 3

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the question whether or not any person or persons,
house, company, association, or body corporate, as hereinafter
described, may be licensed in Cecil County, of this State, by
whom or in which spirituous or fermented liquors, intoxicating
drinks or cider may be sold, or whether or not no license to
sell the same in said County shall be issued, snail be submitted
to the registered and qualified voters of said County on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, and on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in every fourth year thereafter, at the election then to
be held therein, upon the filing with the Supervisors of Elec-
tions of said County, at least, sixty days before said election
of a petition containing the signatures of, at least, twenty-five
per cent, of the registered and qualified voters of said County
requesting such submission, and the Sheriff of said County
shall, at least three weeks previous to the day of said election,
cause public notice to be given of the submission of said ques-
tion, to be published in two newspapers of said County, with
a copy of this Act to be posted at the most public places within
each election district of said County, and the County Com-
missioners of said County shall pay for the publishing of said
notice and copy of this Act, and for printing said handbills
and shall pay to said Sheriff, for said services, the sum of
twenty-five dollars; but if for any reason, said notice shall not
be given, or not given in the manner herein prescribed, such
failure shall not affect the validity of this Act or operate to
prevent its taking effect.