The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-14

AN ACT to enable the registered qualified
voters of Cecil county to determine by
ballot whether spirituous or fermented
liquors or cider shall be sold in said
county.
scmhly OF Maryland that the question
whether or not any person or persons, house,
company, association or body corporate, rs
hereinafter described, NAV be licensed in
Cecil county of this State by whom or in
which spirituous or fcrmentcd liquors. intox-
irating drinks or cider may be sold, or
whether or not no license to sell the same in
said county shall be issued, shall be submitted
to the registered and qualified voters OF said
county on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, eighteen hundred and
nincty-Cight, and on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November.in every fourth
year thereafter, ut the election then to he
held therein, and the sheriff of said county
shall, at least three weeks previous to the day
of said election, cause public notice to be
given of the submission of said question to
bcpublishCd iutwo newspapers of said county
with II copy of this Act. and also by printed
handbl.S containing said notice and copy
of this act to be posted at the most public
places within each election district Of said
county. and the County Commissioners Of said
county shall pay FOR the publishing of said
notice and copy of this Act, and for printing
said hnudbis. and shall pay to said sheriff for
said services the sum of twcnt y-tiyc dollars
but if for any reason said notice shall not be
given. or not given in the manner herein pre-
Scrihed, such failure shall not affect thcvalid-
ity of this Act. or operate to prcy,nt its TAX
ing effect.
SEC. 3 And bc it enacted, That the ballots
cast at said election to he counted us deciding
for or against the sale of spirtuous or fer
mentcd liquors. Intoxicating drinks or cider
in said county. sha have printed or written
on them the words For License" or" against
License" and the ballots east For License"
and the ballots cast Against License" shall
be carefully counted by the Judges of said
election in the respective election districts of
said county, and the number of said ballots
For License" and the number Of ballots
"AgainSr License" shall be certified by them
and the return Judges of said election at their
meeting after said election shall cast up the
whole vote For License and Against Lii
cenSc" in said districts, and shall make Il sep
aratc written return of said whole vote to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil County,
and said Clerk shall record said returns aInon u
the records of his Office, and shall prepare II
certificate proclaiming the result of such
election in said county. and cause said certi-
ficate to be published, within fifteen days
after said returns have been received by him,
once in all the newspapers published in said
county.
SEC 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall
appear by the returns OF said judges and GER
thcute of said Clerk that majority of said
votes have been cast Against License" then
the folio wing sections from section one hum
dred and seventy nine to section one hundred
and ci ehty-eght inclusive, shall be in force
in said county, and stand in the place and
stead of sections one hundred and seventy
nine to one hundred ana elRntN-clght incluS-
i've, of Article of the Code of Public Local
Laws. title Cecil County," subtitle Liquors
and intoxicating Drinks repealed by this
Act.
179 1t shall not he lawful for any person, or
any house. company or association or body
corporate, to barter or sell. directly or indi-
rcctly or to solicit or receive orders for the pur
chase OF at any place within the units OF cecil
county, or to give away on its place of bust
ness, within the limits of said county. any
spirituous or fermented liquors, or alcoholic
1.
| cider, tonic beer, lager beer. schnapps or gin,
| or any article used or sold aS beverage in
the composition of which whiskey, brandy,
high wines or alcohol or any spirituOIIs or fcr-
mcnted liquors shall be an ingredient. nor
same therein.
1870. No person, house. company, association
or body corporate, shall deposit. keep or have
In ms or its possession, any spirituous or fer
mentcd liquors or alcoholic bitters or intOXi-
eating drinks of any kind, or cider, tonic beer,
lager ptcr schnapps or gin, or any article
USED or sold AS beverage, in the composition
or compromising of which whiskcy brandy
, T.,,, vines or alcohol or any spirituous OF
ihtcnt TO barter or sell or give away the came
| In violation OF the provisions of the proceed.
mn lhg S sec or with intent that the same
shall ne nartercd or sold or given away in VIC
lation thereof within the limits of said
| county.
1Sl. Nothing in the preceding sections shall
be construed to prevent the sale of pure
| apple cider mot to he drunk on tho nrrmi
! of the seller in quantities not less thg,, a.,
gallon at one time, by manufacturers oi u.,' =
| cider or by persons who have rrn.-,- me-
apples from which the cider sold by ;nrt, M.
been made; but such sale of apple r'lc, shnt
only be lawful between the FIRST inv ~,
August in each year, and the first day OF ian
uary in the succeeding year, and nr aIo NJ
cider shall be lawful to minors or Intoxicated
persons. or on the sabbath day, commonly
called SUNDAY" nor snail any sale of eide,
be lawful either for themselves or us agent,
for others, Y such manufacturers of cider
or growers OF apples, II they shall be tn,
proprictors, keepers or owners of hotel
inn, bar-room, restaurant, saloon, eating