The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-06-01
Prohibition or High License.
The Law to be Voted on next November.
CHAPTER 202.

snail not be sold in said county, or shall
be sold only as hereinafter described, and
to repeal all acts inconsistent herewith.
SECTION l, BE 1t enacted By 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be repealed after said last mentioned date
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 nnety-two, shall con-
tinue to remain in force until other laws shall
be enacted in lieu thereof
SEC. 2. and be Hehdcted That the questions
whether or not any person or persons, house.
company, association or body corporate, as
hereinafter described, may belcensed in Har.
ford county of this State, by whom, or in
which spirituous or fermented liquors or in
toXicating 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 e'ection to be held there
in on the first Tuesday after the first Mon
loV IL, No, l,nr ~, .
dred and eighty eight, 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 Mt the
most public places within each election dis
trict of said county, and also by advertise
mcnts in all the newspapers published there
IN, which said advertisement shall contain a
copy ofthis act and of the time and place
OF holding said election and the expenses of
said election, including the cost of such ad-
vertsemcnts and handbills and the cost of
said sheriff, shall bepaid by the county COM
mlsslOners 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. 3. and be ii endcted, 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 snle or gift of spiritu-
GUS or fermentcd liquors or Intoxicating
drinks in said county, shall have printed or
written on them, For License" or Against
License" and the votes cast "FoI License"
and the votes cost Against License" shall be
carefully counted by the judges of said cleo
ton 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, at 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 ofsaid 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 a
certificate procaming 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 cues
'''h i'i tii'N wy 10 w W lllG law, DGTG-
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 agains license in the other part of the
county.
SEC 4. And be 1t enacted That if it shall
appear by the returns of said judges and Ger.
tticate of said clerk that a majority of said
votes have been cast against license for the
sale OF spirltuOus or termented 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
"PrOhlbilion of Intoxicating liquors" to take
effect on the first day OF December, eighteen
hundred and lightweight.
The Amendments IN IN. po,,u
Ia,
SEC D. ana De enacted, That it shall
not he lawful after the lrst day Of December,
eighteen hundred and lightweight, for any
person or persons, or any house, company
or association, or body corporate, to sell,
directlyo or indirectly, or TO solicit or to re-
ceive orders for the purchase of, at any place
within the ilmlts OF Hartford county, or to
give AWAY vi W uisPuS~ VI unueT any device
whatsoever, at his, her, their or its place of
business, within the limits of said county, any
spirituous or iermented liquors or alcoholic
bttcrs, or Intoxicating drinks of any kind, or
tonic beer, lager beer, schnapps or gin, or any
article used and sold as II beverage, in the COM
position of which whisky, brandy, high wines
or alcohol, or any sprIuous or iermented
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 termented liquors,
alcoholic bitters, or Intoxicating drinks ofany
kind, or tonic beer, lager beer, schnapps or
gin, or any article used and sold as beverage,
in the composition or compromising of
which whisky, brandy, high wines or alcoho-
lie or spirituous or fermented liquors shall he
an ingredient or ingredients, with intent to
barter or sell or give away the same in viola
tion of the provisions of the preceding sec
ton hereof, or with intuIt that the same
shall be bartered or sold, or given away, in