The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-06-04
CHAPTER 46I.

te,mine by ballot whether or not spirtu-
Gus or fermented liquors or lager beer
shall be sold in any such election district.
SECTION !. BE il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland that at the next cleo
tion for members of Congress of the. United
States from the sixth congressional district of
Maryland, to be held in Garrett county on the
next Tuesday after the first Monday in No
yember in the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-SiN. there shall be held an election in
any election district in said county, subject to
the provisions hereinafter enacted to deter
mine by ballot whether spirtuous. fermented
or other Intoxicating liquors shall be sold in
said election district of the county afoTcsaid;
and it Shall he the duty of the sheriff OF said
county to make proclamation ofsuch election
as IN case of other elections held in this State,
under penalty, in case of neglect or refusal to
perform such duty as is now provided in the
election laws Of this State.
SEC. 2 And it shall be enacted that said
election shall be held in accordance with the
law governing general elections in this State,
at which said election the ballots to be cast
shah be printe upon the regular ballot sheet
of said election; the words 20" License or
against License" shall be printed in sepe-
rated columns and the ballot so cast shall be
received by the judges of election and dcpoS-
tied i'm the regular box provided by the said
! Shorthand counted by them, who shall, with
, in three days thereafter make a written re-
turn of the same under their hands, seals
and of the number Of ballots so cast for or
against license, to the clerk of the Circuit
! Court, who shall record the same; and it
shall be the duty of said clerk, within ten
days after said election, to cause to be printed
and published in one or more newspapers
published in said county, once n week for two
successive weeks, n proclamation Of the re-
suit of such election in each of said districts
of the county aforesaid.
SEC 3. And be ii enacted. that if it shall be
found at such election and proclaimed by the
said clerk of court, thata majority ofthe quail
flied votes have been cast ''tor license in any
of the said election dist lets wherein the sale
of liquors or other fermented spirits is now
prohibited by law, Immediately after the
proclamation by the said clerk of the results
OF said election, such prohibition shall be and
is hereby removed and any and every person
may proceed TO sell liquor or other ermented
spirits in such election districts upon obtain
ing license theretOraS is now or hereafter may
be provided by public general or public local
law.
SEC. /. And be it enacted That if it shall
be found at such election and proclaimed by
the clerk of court that Il majority of the quail
flied votes have been cast against licenSe''in
any OF said election districts wherein the sale
of liquor or other fermented spirits is now
licensed by law, it shall not be lawful for any
person or persons. firm, company or body
corporate on aud after the first day of May in
the year succeeding said election to sell or
otherwise dispose fby way of barter directly
or indirectly any SpirituouS, fermented of
other Intoxicating LIQUORS or medicated bit
tiers producing intOXicatiOn, or any compound
of which alcohol forms the chief or a princ-
pal ingredient, or for any license to be grant
ed for the sale of the same in any such cleo
ton district OF the county aforesaid, provided
tnat nOtnlnS nefeln contained snail DE con-
Strued 10 prevent the compromising or sale of
any such liquors by Il regular pharmacist or
druggist now having a license for such bust
ness under the laws of this state, upon the
written bona tide prescription of IL regular
practcng physician of such district, whose
name shall be signed thereto: and every such
prescription shall be filed and kept by such
pharmacist or druggist. and no one prescrlp-
ton shall serve for more than one purchase:
but no physician shall make or sign any such
prescription unless the person for whom it is
= il
lutely required as II incidence and any ply
stefan who shall, after SAID first day of May
next succeeding said election, make or sign
any prescription for such liquor, except
provided Tor her in shall be deemed guilty of
a violation of this act, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars and costs for
each oflense. and be committed by the court
wherein such conviction is had, until such
fine and costs are paid; nor shall anything
herein contained be construed TO prohibit
sale by such pharmacists or druggist in case of
extreme illness when delay would be dam
gerous to the patient.
SEC. g. And be il enacted that If on and
after the said first day of May next succeeding
said election, any person or persons, firm,
ton district of said county wherein major
ity of the votes aforesaid have been cast
against license and proclamation thereof
made as aforesaid, sell or otherwise barter or
dispose of, directly or indirectly, any spirtu-
Gus, fermented or Intoxicating liquors, or
medicated bitters producing intoXication, or
any compound Oh WHICH dlcOilOl lOfnlS tlt
chief or principal ingredient as aforesaid, and
except, as aforesaid, he, she or they shall be
deemed guilty of q miSdemcanOr and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined for each and
every offenSc not less than fifty nor more
one hundred dollars, and for every ottense
subsequent to any conviction of a violation
of this law, the minimum as well as the
maximum of said fine shall be doubled, the
cost of every conviction to be in every case
paid by the prisoner or person found guilty of
a violation of this law, and in every case the
party is to stand committed until his fine and
costs are paid. and for n second and every
subsequent offense the person so offending
shall, in addition to said fine and costs, be
imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor
more than six months; the one-half.of said
fines imposed in this and the preceding sec
ton to be paid by the Sheriff to the actual
informer, under order of the court, and the
other half to be paid over to the proper au-
thorities for the support of the public schools
of the said county; audit shall be the duty of
the said Clerk OF Court to inform the grand
jury of any previous conviction or convic-
tons of any person or persons so offending
upon the request of the grand jury of said
county; and the said grand jury shall endorse
upon or make it part of their presentments
and Indictment by them found, the number
of times, If any, that the person or persons
presented and indicted by them shall have
been previously convicted of violation of
this law.
SEC. g. And be IL enacted, that the Judges
of the Circuit Court for said county shall give