The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-05-28

dred names, or fraction thereof signed
thereto, together with a copy thereof,
the Supervisors of Election shall imme-
dlately compare the original and copy
attach to such copy and delivered to
such person their official certificate that
such copy is true copy of the original,
stating the day when such original was
filed in their Office. Whoever in making
the sworn statement above prescribed
shall knowingly, wilfully and corruptly
swear falsely shall be deemed guilty of
perjury and on conviction thereof shall
be punished accordingly; whoever FORCES
the signature of any person upon any
petition or statement provided for in
this Act shall be deemed guilty of forg
cry, and on conviction thereof be pun
ished accordingly.
SEC. ). And be it further enacted,
That the Supervisors of Elections with
whom any petition shall be filed as pro-
vided in this Act shall cause notice to be
given in the manner provided by law for
giving notice of an election of the sub
mission of said proposition at the next
election to the voters of the political
subdivision named in such petition
Publication of the submission of said
HlOpOSlLlbil " Illt NOGEIS VI SuCll tJOllll-
cal subdivision shall likewise be made
in the manner provided by law for the
publication Of the list of nominations to
be voted for at an election, provided
that the failure of such Supervisors to
Election to cause such notice to be given
or the failure to make publication of the
submission of said proposition as above
provided, shall not affect the validity or
binding force of the vote upon said prop
osition.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted,
That the Supervisors of Elections with
whom any petition shall be filed as pro-
vided by this Act shall cause the prop
osition. shall this --- county.
election district, city, town, village or
ward las the case may be- become Anti
Saloon Territory, to be placed on the
official ballots to be used in the political
subdivision in which the manner pre-
scribed by Section 56 Of Article SO of
the Code of Public General Laws of
1904. at any election where said prop
ositiOn is submitted. The persons man
aging the interests of those opposed to
said proposition shall have respectively
the right to designate and keep a chal-
lenger and watcher at each election
place. A certificate signed by the pre-
siding officers of the committee manag-
ing the interest of those in favor of. or
opposed to said proposition, shall be Suf-
ticlent EVIDENCE of the right of such
challenger and watcher to be present at
the polling room. Such challengers and
watchers shall have the powers which
are conferred upon challengers and
watchers by sections 90 and SO of Arti-
Gle 90 Of the Code of Public General
Laws of 1904.
SEC. I. And be it further enacted
That the Supervisors Of Elections shall
as soon az conveniently may be after
receiving and canvassing the result Of
any election at which the proposition as
to whether any political subdivision
shall become or continue to be Anti
Saloon Territory is submitted to the
voters thereof, proclaiming the result
of said election and publish such proca-
nation IN some newspaper published in
the county. if the owners of such news
papers will publish the same at current
rates rt advertisements and shall record
IN well bound book 70 be kept in their
office by them and their successors the
result OF the vote upon said PROPOSE
ton and such result may be proven in
all courts and in all proceedings by such
records or by the official certificate Of
the Supervisors Of Election, and eases
where such a record or certificate shows
that majority Of the legal voters yot-
ING upon said proposition voted Yes"
the same shall be conclusive evidence
that the political subdivision to which
such vote was applicable has become
Anti Saloon Territory, unless the
proclamation of the Supervisors of Elec-
ton shall be reversed after a contest of
the election in accordance with the pro-
visions of Section q of this Act.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted,
That all the territory within any politi-
cal subdivision which has become ANTI
Saloon Territory" shall continue to be
"Anti-Saloon Territory throughout its
entire extent notwithstanding any
change that may be made in the limits
of said such political subdivision until
the legal voters thereof have voted ac-
cOrding to provisions of this Act. To
discontinue such Anti-Saloon Territory
the following section shall be construed