The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-10-12
Election Notice.
To tile Judges Of Election
and Voters
10 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY b

On the first Tuesday after the first Monday o.
November, 1888, it being tie 9Th day of said
month,
at the usual places of voting in the several
Election Districts of Hartford county, as
follows:
In the First Election Distrct-At ABING
DON and MAGNOLIA.
In the Second Election Dictrict-At HOPE.
WELL and HALLS X ROADS.
In the Third Election District-At BEL
AIR, CHURCHVILLE and FALLSTON.
In the Fourth Election District-At JAR.
RETTSVILLE, NoRRISVILLE and
UPPER X ROADS.
In the Fifth Election District-At DUBLIN
and STEARNS'.
In the Sixth Election District-At HAVRE
DE GRACE.
For the purpose of electing Eight Electors
for President and Vice President of the
United States, and one person to represent
the Second Congressional District of Mary
land in the Congress of the United States.
The polls will open at 8 o'clock A. NJ. and
close at O'Clock p. NJ.
The Returning Judges are directed to make
their returns on the I'd day Thursday follow.
Court for Hartford County, and also to the
Governor Of Maryland. A vote will also be
taken, at said time and places, in accordance
with the provisions of the following Law,
passed by the General Assembly of MARYLAND
at it's January session, 1888.
AN Act to enable the qualified voters of
Hartford county to determine, by ballot,
whether spirituous or fermented liquors
shall not be sold in said county, or shall
be sold only as hereinafter described, and
tn rpnpn1 oil ut OF a.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted BIZ the General
assembly Of Maryland, That chapter ninety.
two of the acts passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and eighty.two, shall not
remain in force on and after the first day of
December, eighteen hundred and eighty
eight, and that all acts or parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act shall
be repealed after said last mentioned date 1;
provided, however, that this act shall not be
construed to repeal said act of eighteen hun
dred and eighty-two, chapter ninety-two,
prior to the first day of December, eighteen
hundred and Lightweight, or to affect any
offence already committed, or which may be
committed before this act shall take effect,
but all such offences may be prosecuted and
punished under the law existing at the time
of the commission Of said respective offences ;
and provided further, that if for any reason
this act shall not take effect on the first day
of December, eighteen hundred and eighty
eight, the said act of eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, chapter ninety-two, shall con-
tinue to remain in force until other laws shall
be enacted in lieu thereof
SEC. 2. And be 1t enacted, That the questions
whether or not any person or persons, house,
company, association or body corporate, as
hereinafter described, may be licensed in Har-
ford county of this State, by whom, or in
which spirituous or fermented liquors or in
toxicatng drinks may be sold, or whether
or not no license to sell the same in
said county shall be issued, shall be submit
ted to the qualified voters of said county at
The general election to be held there
in on the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November, in the year eighteen hun
dred and lightweight, and which election
shall be held in accordance with the law
governing general elections in this State, and
the sheriff of said county shall, at least three
weeks previous to said election, cause public
notice to be given of the time and purpose of
said election by advertisements set up at the
most public places within each election dis
trict of said county, and also by advertise
ments in all the newspapers published there
in, which said advertisement shall contain a
copy ofthis act, and of the time and place
ofholding said election and the expenses of
said election, including the cost of such ad-
vertsemcnts and handbills and the cost of
said sheriff, shall be paid by the county COM
missioners of said county but if for any
cause said notice shall fail to be given, such
failure shall not effect the validity of this act
or operate to prevent its taking effect.
Sec. g. And be it enacted, That the ballots
cast at said election on the question of
license or no license to be counted as decid-
ing for or against the sale or gift of spiriu-
GUS or fermented liquors or intoxicating
drinks in said county, shall have printed or
written on them, For License" or against
License" and the votes cast "For License"
and the votes cast Against License" shall be
carefully counted by the judges of said cleo
tion in the respective precincts and districts of
said county, and the number of votes For
License" and the number Of votes
Against License" shall be certified by
them; and the return judges of said
election, ut their meeting, after said cleo
ton shall cast up the whole vote for
license and against license, in said precincts
and districts, and shall make separate writ
ten return of said whole vote to the clerk of
the Circuit Court Tor Hartford county, and
said clerk shall record said returns among
the records Of his office, and shall prepare Il
certificate proclaiming the result of such cleo
ton in said county, and cause said certificate
to be published, within ten days after said
returns have been received by him, once in
all the newspapers published in said county !;
provided, however, that the vote of the city
of Havre de Grace shall determine the ques-
ton for that city as to whether the law, here
| matter provided for, by vote for license or
the law hereinafter provided for by vote
against license, shall be the law for said city,
but the vote of said city shall not be counted
so as to effect the result OF the vote cast for
or agans license in the other part of the
county.
SEC. 4. And be ii enacted, That if it shall
appear by the returns of said judges and GER
tifcate of said clerk that majority of said
votes have been cast against license for the
sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or in
toxicating drinks, then the following sections,
from section five hereof to section thirteen,
inclusive shall be added to the Public Local
Laws of Hartford county, under the subtitle
prohibition of intoxicating liquors." to take
effect on the first day of December, eighteen
hundred and Lightweight.
SEC. 5. And be IL enacted, That it shall
not be lawful after the first day of December,
eighteen hundred and eighty eight, for any
or association, or body corporate, to sell,
directly or indirectly, or TO solicit or to re-
ceiye orders for the purchase of, at any place
within the limits of Hartford county, or to
give away, or to dispose of under any device
whatsoever, at his her, their or its pl ace of
business, within the limits of said county, any
spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic
btters, or Intoxicating drinks of any kind or
tonic beer, lager beer, schnapps or gin, or any
article used and sold as beverage, in the COM
position of which whisky, brandy high wines
or alcohol, or any spirituous or fermented
liquors shall be an ingredient or ingredients,
nor shall any license be granted for the sale
of the same therein
SEC. 6. That no person, persons house,
company, association or body corporate shall,
after the first day of December, in the year
eighteen hundred and eighty eight, deposit,
keep or have in his. her, their or its posses.
sion any spirituous or fermented Liquors,
alcoholic bilters, or intoxicating drinks ofany
kind, or tonic beer, lager beer, schnapps or
gin, or any article used and sold as a beverage,
in the composition or compounding OF
which whisky, brandy, high wines or alcoho-