The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-10-27
CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of
Hartford county to determine by ballot
whether intoxicating liquors or alcoholic
bitters shall be sold therein.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted By tile General As
Semb,y Of maryland, That the question whether
or not any person or persons, house, corpo-
ration, company or association may be per-
mitted to sell any spirituous, fcrmented or
intoxicating liquors of whatever origin, or
alcoholic bitters, at any time in Hartford
county, in this State, shall be submitted to
the registered and qualified voters of said
county, ut the general election to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, eighteen hundred and eightytwo.
And the Sheriff Of said county shall give no.
tice Of the time and purpose of said election
by advertisement inserted in all the newspa-
pers published in said county, and by hand
bills posted in each election district in said
county, at least ten days before the said cleo
ton, in which notice copy of this act shall
be inserted; and the expenses of said election,
including the advertisements and handbills
aforesaid, shall be levied by the Commissioners
of said county and paid by the Treasurer
thereof.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted That the ballots
for and against such sale shall have printed
or written upon them, for the sale of intoXi-
eating liquors; and the ballots so cast shall
be deposited in n separate balotboX provided
therefor and the said ballots shall be carefully
counted by the judges of said election, and
said Judges shall make return of said votes
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hartford
county and said clerk shall Immediately make
proclamation of the result of said election.
SEC. 3. And be 1t enacted, That if it shall
be found by the returns of said judges of cleo
ton End the proclamation of said clerk, that
the majority of the votes cast in said county
are against the sale of Intoxicating liquors,
that then it shall not be lawful for any person
or persons, any house, corporation, company
or association, to sell dire city or indirectly, at
any place, or TO give away at his, her, their,
or its place of business, any sprituous, fer.
mentcd or intoxicating liquors of whatever
origin, or alcoholic bitters, after the first day
of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty. three; but if it shall appear by the re-
turns of said Judges of election and proclama-
ton of the clerk of said court that majority
of the votes as prescribed in the third section
ofthis act haye been cast for the sale of in
toxicating liquors then the same shall be sold
as now permitted by law.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any per-
son or persons, house, company association
or body corporate, shall sell directly or indi-
reclly at any place, or give away at his, her,
their or its place of business, any spirituous
or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitters, or
intoxicating drinks of any kind within the
limits of Hartford county, on or after the first
day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty.three, he, she or they shall, on convic-
ton thereof, forfeit and pay on the first con-
vction n fine Of not less than fifty dollars,n nor
more than three hundred dollars, and costs
of prosecution or, instead of such fine, i'm.
prisonment in the county Jail for thirty days,
or both in the discretion OF the court; and on
the second and every subsequent conviction
not less than one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars, and in addition TO such fine,
imprisonment in the county Jail for not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days, in the