The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
4TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1890.

Monday in November next, it being the
4TH DAY OF november, 1890.
for the purpose of balloJng 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 nav
under and by virtue OF Chapter 6lO OF the
Laws of Maryland for 1880, vote upon the
question of whether or not any person OF per
| sons, house, corporation, company or asso-
citation may be licensed in Garrett county,
| by whom or in which spirituOus or fermented
| LIQUORS oralcoholc bitters shall be sole, (which
| said Act of Assembly. Chapter so of the Laws
OF 1890 is herein inserted rs by 1t required ana
| is of the tenor and in the words following,to
| wit:
| To enable the qualified voters OF Garrett
| County to determine by ballot whether
| spirituous or termented liquors or 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 snail
| petermine said question in the ahrmatlVe,
and to regulate the sale thereofby druggists
| and pharmacists.
of large portion of the voters of Garrett coun-
| ty whether the law known as the Local OPP
tion law of said county passed at the session a,
| eighty-six, Chapter three hundred ana ninety
nine, and
forwarded to this Legislature, signed by par
| ties who voted for the said law az well as
| against it, and it being deemed advisable,
on account OF said uncertainty, to re-
submit the Question and to grant another
election, in order that IL may be DEFINITELY
determined by ballot whether Local option
shall exist as 1t now does in said county
SECTION l. 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
t,..Ii. tow hot hn II
| ted to the registered voters of said county at
the next general election to be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday In the
month of November in the year eighteen hum
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-bills 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.
SEC |. And be it enacted, That all the tick
| cts or ballots prepared for said general cleo
ton in said county shall have printed or
written on them these words in the following
order: For Liquor License" Against Lip
uor License" and every legally qualified reg
istered voter offering to vote ut said general
election and desiring to vote either for grant
ing liquor license, or against granting liquor
license in said county, shall erase from his
ticket or ballot as he may elect either the
words For Liquor License" or the wOidS
against Liquor License" and the ballots SO
cast shall be carefully counted by the Judges
of said election, and the return judges snail
make a 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 it enacted That if 1t shall be
found by said return of the judges of election
and proclamation of said Clerk that II major
ity of votes cast in said county has been cast
against the sale OF spirituous or fermented
liquors or alcoholic bitters, that then il shall
not be lawful for any person or persons.
house corporation, company or association
| IN coll SpiritunuS fprmpntp ed liuuOrS leo
holic hitterS directly or indirectly at any
place within the limits of said county, but If
it shall he found by the return of said judges
of election and proclamation of said CLERK,
that majority of all the votes east as pre-
scribed in the preceding sections, In said coun :
ty, has been cast for the sale of said spiritu0us
or fermented liquors ur alcoholic bitters, then
the same shall be 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, ifa 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 conviction thereof forfeit
and pay fine of not less than fifty nor more
than three hundred dollars and costs OF pros
ecution, or instead of such fine imprisonment
in the county Jail for thirty days, or both in
the discretion of the Court.
SEC. 5. And be 1t enacted. That IN addition
TO the respective amounts to be paid by any
person or persons, house, corporation, com
pany or association for taking out license I'M
der Article fifty -siX of the Code of Public
General Laws. and the supplementary Acts
thereto, relating to sprituouS or fermented
liquors by retailers and oyster and eating
| houses, or under any other section of said
| Article, the sad person or persons. house,
corporations, company or association. shall,
fhe, she, they or It intends to sell or barter
bittcrs or all combined, in quantities more
than pint or less than pint. or by the
drink, that such applicant or applicants shall,
| i'm addition to the amount to be paid the stat e
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 shall be granted, aud If any per-
son or persons house, corporation, company
or association shall 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 fermented liquors
or larger beer may be sold or bartered in
quantities less than a pint at any one time
or by the drink, that such applicant 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. 6. 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 bitters are to be sold, as a
tit 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 IL 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
bond, and that in no event shall any person
sell such article on the sabbath day and COM
monty called Sunday, and for the violation
of this provision such person, naturafor arti-
fetal, shall be subjected to the penalties pro-
vided for in section four of this Act
SEC. 7. Aud be IL enacted, That it shall be
the duty of said 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, n written AFFIDAVIT to be
filed 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