The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-17
ATH Day lori NOVEMBER, 1850,


for the purpose of ballOling for one person to
represent the Sixth Congressional district OF
Maryland, in the Fifty-secOnd Congress OF
the United States, and for the purpose OF haV-
ing the qualified voters Of Garrett County
under and by virtue of Chapter 6lG OF the
Laws of Maryland for 1890 vote upon the
question OF whether or nOtany person or per-
sons, house, corporation, company or asso-
citation may be licensed in Garrett County,
by whom or in which sprituOus or Iermented
| LIQUORS oralcohOlic bitterS shall be sold, which
said Act of Assembly, Chapter $40 of the Laws
OF 1890 is herein inserted as by 1t required and
| is of the tenor and in the words folowing,to
| witt
| To enable the qualified voters of Garrett
| County to determine by ballot whether
| spirituous or iermented liquors OF alcoholic
| bitters shall be sold in said county, and to
| regulate the terms and conditions on which
the sale thereof may be made in case the
| majority of the voters of said county shall
petermine said question in the affirmative,
and to regulate the sale thereofby druggists
| and pharmacists.
| WHEREAS. Much doubt exists in the mind
of a large portion of the voters OF Garrett coun-
| ty whether the law known as the Local OPP
| ton law of said county, passed at the session
| of the Legislature in eighteen hundred ana
| eighty-six, Chapter three hundred and ninety
| nine, and
| WHEREAS Numerous petitions have been
forwarded to this Legislature, signed by par
| ties who voted for the said law as well as
against it, and it being deemed advisable,
| on account of said uncertainty, to re-
J submit the question ana 10 grant dilOtueT
! election, in order that 1t may be definitely
| determined by ballot whether Local Option
shall exist as it now does in said county,
| therefore,
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General
| Assembly of Maryland, That the question
| whether or not any person or persons, house,
| corporation, company or association may be
| licensed in Garrett county, by whom or IN
| which Splrituous or fermented liquors or al
| cohOlc btterS shall be sold shall be submit
| ted to the registered voters OF said county at
| l,n vt nlnptinn tn hold
| Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
| month of NOvemberin the year eighteen hun
dred and ninety, and the Sheriff of said coun-
ty shall give notice OF the time and purpose
| OfthiS Act by advertisement inserted in all
! the newspapers published in said county, and
by hand-biIls posted in each election district
| in said county, at least ten days before said
| election, in which notice copy of this Act
| shall be inserted.
| cts or ballots prepared for said general cleo
| tion in said county shall have printed or
written on them these words in the following
order: For Liquor License" Against Liq-
| uOr License" and every legally qualified reg
| istered voter offering to vote at said general
election and desiring to vote either for grant,
| ing liquor license, or against granting liquor
/ license in said cOdnty, shall erase from his
ticket or ballot as he may elect either the
| words "FOr Liquor License" or the wulds
Against Liquor License and the ballots so
| cast shall be carefully e IuntCd by the Judges
of said election, and til" return JUDGES snail
make n return of said votes TO the Clerk OF
| the Circuit Court for Garrett County. and said
| Clerk Shall Immediately make proclamation
| of the result of said election.
| SEC 3. And be ii enacted That fit shall he
| found by said return of the Judges of election
| ana proclamation of said Clerk that u major
ity OF votes cast in said county has been cast
against the sale of spirtuouS or Iermented
/ liquors or alcoholic bitterS, that then it shall
not be lawful for any person or persons,
| house, corporation, company or association
! to sell Spirituous or fermcntcd liquors or alco-
hoic bittcrS directly or indirectly at amy
place within the limits of said county, but if
| 1t shall he found by the return of said judges
of election and proclamation of said CLERK,
! that a majority all the votes cast as pre-
scribed in the preceding sections, in said coun
| ty, has been cast for the sale OF said spurious
| or fermented liquors Or alcoholic bitterS, then
the same shall he sold as allowed under the
! license laws of this State subject to the pro-
| visions hereinafter mentioned or provided.
SEC 1. And be it enacted, That If any per-
| son or persons house, company, association
| or body corporate shall sell, directly or indi-
rectly, any spirituouS or fermented liquors or
| alcoholic bitterS within the limits of said
county, if a majority of all the votes cast shall
have been against the sale of liquors or bit
| tiers, after the fourth day of November in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety, he, she,
| they or it shall on convection thereof forfeit
| and pay fine of not less than fifty nor more
than three hundred dollars and costs of pros
| ecutiOn, or instead ofsuch fine, Imprisonment
in the county Jail for thirty days, or both in
| the discretion of the Court
! SEC. ). And be Ii enacted. That in addition
| to the respective amounts to be paid by any
| person or persons. house, corporation, com
| pany or association FIR taking out license un-
| General Laws. and the supplementary Acts
! thereto, relating to spirituouS or fcrmented
| liquors by retailers and oyster aud eating
| houses, or under any other section of said
| Article, the sad person or persons, house,
corporations, company or asSo ;ation, shall,
! if he, she, they or it intends to sell or barter
| SpirtuouS or fcrmented liquors or alcoholic
bttters or ali combined, in quantities more
| than pint or less than II pint, or by The
| drink that such applicant or applicants shall
| in addition to the amount to be paid the State
| of Maryland, pay to the Clerk of the Circuit
| Court for Garrett County the further su of
twenty-five dollars for the use of the public
| schools of said Garrett County, before any
such license shah be granted, and if any per-
| son or persons, house, corporation, company
| or association shalt open or keep any oyster
| house, cook shop or victualing house. or lar
ger beer saloon. or any other than an ordinary
! at or in which spirituouS or termented liquors
| or larger beer may be sold or bartered in
| quantities less than pint at any one time
| or by the drink, that such app licant or appli-
! cantS shall in addition to the amount to be
paid the State Of Maryland shall also pay to
| the Clerk of said Circuit Court the sum of
| twenty five dollars for the use of said public
| ScOOlS.
SEC. g. And be it enacted, That no spirtu-
| Gus or fermented liquors or alcoholic bitterS
| shall be sold In any election district of said
! county except as provided for by section five
| of this Act. and also upon the following
terms: That each and every applicant, per-
| son or persons, house, corporation, company
/ or association, shall be recommended to said
| Clerk by seven respectable free-holderS living
| within three miles of the place where said
| liquors or alcoholic btters are to be sold, as q
| fit person to traffic in the article, nor until
! su III person or persons applying for such lic-
/ enSe shall have filed with said Clerk a bond,
| with at least two suretieS to be approved by
| said Clerk in the penal sum of two thousand
| dollars, conditioned for the payment of all
| fines, penalties costs and damages to which
| the person or persons obtaining the said lie
| enSe may become liable for any violation of
| any OF the license laws of this State and the
said Clerk is hereby prohibited from approx
| ing any bond under this section unless 1t shall
! appear to him by good evidence that the sur
| cites in said bond are worth in real estate
double the amount of the penalty of said
sell such article on the Sabbath day and COM
monty called Sunday, and for the violation
: of this provision such person, natural or arti-
| ficial shall be subjected to the penalties pro-
vided for in section four of this Act
| SEC. I. Aud be ii enacted, That it shall be
the duty Ofsaid Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Garrett county, to require from each appli-
cant for license, as aforesaid in addition to
any requirements of the General License
Laws of this State, a written affidavit to be
| fled in his Office in which said applicant
| shall state the situation of the house or place
! of business and premises, including all the
| buildings and grounds occupied or used in
! connection Herewith, at or in which the
| sales to be authorized by said license, may be,
| or are proposed to be made, the rate of rent
| or annual value thereof and the owner of
said house or place of business and premises;
! also that each of the petitioners signing the
! petition of said applicant is such free holder
| as is required by section six, and lives within
| three miles of the said proposed place of bus