Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-07-24
Sheriff 5 Election Notice.

Sheriff 5 Election Notice.
! voTTCE is hereby given to Il Q DUAL
\ 6gd Voters Of Charles county that ou
Election will DC held on
7uesduy AagaSt An,
: i The several Election Districts Of said
county as follows, VIZ:
ia District Port Tobacco 2nd
pis,rict-Ilill Top. Bird District =
r,o,s Roads 4th District Aliens
r,ssb 5th District Har-is Lot 9Th
pi.ri.t -Middlctorn 7ih District
, pomopkey. sth District BrJantown
OH District P,iuxent City,
FOR the purpose Of submitting to The
s,iJ qualified 'oters Of said county TIE
one,tion a, to whether or not any person
g r. persons, house, corporation. company
{ or association may be permitted to sch
: ,pg spirituous. fermented, or intoxicating
lionors Of any origin whatever, or alec
h5lic bi,ters ut any time within the lin
h Of sad county or III any election dis
! ,,iot thereof after the lit day Of May.
1856. a. required BY the following act
: ol as .cmbly, chapter 800, passed IN the
year 1881
me pob for sid Election will be opened in
..rb IA ever, Election District Of said coun-
, - n he usual places Of holding thu polls, at
oirlock q. N and vii close a. 6 o clock
vben me ballots shall be opened and
p.ti,.ty rourted DAVID SMOOF
Sheriff Of Charles county
An ACT to enable the qualified voters
If Charles county to determine, by
z ballot whether Spirituous, Fermtnt-
"a Or Intoxicating Liquors, or Alco-
{ bolie Btters, shall be sold in this
county
So + b Il eaarted 5g he GENERAL 4ssem-
bb, 81 Nl-glqpd, That the question whether
Or not any person or persons, house, cor
poratiOu. company or association, may
be permitted to sell any spirituous fer
mentel, o. intoS eating liquors Of any
origin whatever, or alcoholic bitters, at
any time. within the limits of Charles
county in this State, shall be submitted
10 tic registered and qualified voters of
said county at an election to be held on
the 6rst TUESDAY, being the fourth day
nf Nuoast IN the wear eighteen hun-
dred ana eight, FIVE aud which election
shall be held in accordance with, and
subject to the law governing general
elections in tins STATE; and the sheriff Of
said county shall give notice of the time
and purpose Of said election, by adyer-
Using 10 at least two Of the newspapers
published in said county, and by hand
bills posted al prominent points in each
election district Of said county, at least
ten days before the said election, in
which notice, to be published in said
newspapers, a copy Of this act shall be
Inserted, and the expenses of said cleo
ion. including the advertisements and
andblls aforesaid, shall be levied by
the commissioners of said county, and
paid by the treasurer thereof.
Sic. ?. Ind be 1t saacte9, That the ballots
for and against such sale shall have
written or printed upon them. For
the sale Of intoxicating liquors." or
Against the sale Of intoxicating Ii
quors, and the ballets so cast shall Be
carefully counted by the Judges of said
election, and shall make returns of said
votes to the clerk of the circuit court of
Charles county, and said clerk shall i'm
modiately make proclamation of she re-
suits Of said election
SIC 3. Aad Be i enacted, That if it sh,ll
be found by the returns of sal judges Of
and the proclamation of said
4 clerk That the majority q all The vot
cast in said Charles coanty are again
\ the sale of Intoxicating liquors, then
shall not be lawful for any person
\ per- ons, house, corporation, compar
or association to SCH directly or indirec
ly, at any place, or to give away at hi
Ehar, their OF its place of business, witt
Hin the limits of said county, any spirit
'ous, fermented or Intoxicating liquors
any origin whatever, Or alcoholic bitter
after the first day of May. in the yei
i eighteen hundred and eighty->ix; but
1t shall be found by the returns Of Il
1 said judges Of election and the proclaim
ton of said clerk Of said court, that II
majority of all the votes cast as preseriI
ed in the preceding second section
| said Charles county, have been cast f
the sale of Intoxicating liquors, thea II
same shall he sold as now permitted
be sold by law in said county provide,
nevertheless, that where the majority
all the votes, cast in any election disrri
in said county, are AGAINST the sale
Intoxicating liquors, then it shall not
lawful for any person, house, corpor
ton or company to sell, directly or ind
rectly, or give away at bis, her or j
place of business within the limits
said election district, any spirituous, fe
mented or Intoxicating liquors. or ale
hoic htters, after the said first day
May, in the year eighteen hundred al
eighty six.
SIC, 4. Ind b. it ,aocted, That ifauy pc
son or persons, house, company, assoc
alton or body corporate, shall sell, d
rectly OF indirectly, at any place,
give away at his, her, their or its plao
! Of business, any spirituous or fermente
liquors or ae holic bitters or intoxica
ing drinks of any kind, within the liml
of said county, or any election distrl
Of said county where majority Of a
the votes cast shall have been ca
against the sale of intoxicating liquo
in said county, or any election distr
thereof respectively, on or .ter the sal
first day Of May, in the year oightee
hundred and cighty-six, he, she, the
or it shall, on conviction thereof, FORTE
and pay on the first conviction a fine
not IS than fifty dollars, nor more tina
three hundred dollars and costs Of pro
ocution; or instead Of such fine in
orisonment in the county Jail fer not lie
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