The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-03-27

Such petition shall consist of sheets
having such form printed or written
at the top thereof and shall be signed
by the legal voters in their own prop
er persons only, and opposite the sig
nature of each legal voter shall be
written the house number and street
name (if there be SUCH and the city,
town, village or election district, as
the case may be, in which he resides,
and the date of signing the same. No
signature shall be valid or counted
in considering such petition unless
these requirements are complied with
and unless the date of signing pre-
coded the date of filing the same.
At the bottom of each sheet of such
petition shall be added a statement,
signed by a resident OF the political
subdivision in which the signers
thereof reside, with his residence ad-
dress as aforesaid, stating that the
signatures on that sheet of the said
petition are genuine, and that to the
best of his knowledge and belief the
persons signing were at the time of
signing said petition legal voters of
the said political subdivision, that
their respective residences, where re-
quired to be stated, are correctly
stated therein and that each signer
signed the same on the date set OPP
posite his name Such statement shall
be sworn to before some officer resid-
ing in said county, authorized to adj
minister oaths therein. Such sheets
shall be fastened together in one docu-
ment, filed as whole, and when filed
shall not be withdrawn or added to.
No signature shall be withdrawn after
the filing of such petition.
Such petition, so verified, or copy
thereof, duly certified as hereinafter
provided, shall be prima facie evidence
that the signatures, statement of re-
sidence where required to be stated
and dates upon such petition are genu
inc and true and that the persons sign
ing the same are legal voters of the
political subdivision named therein.
Upon request of anyone filing such
a petition and verified statement and
paying or rendering TO the Supervisors
of Elections one dollar for each one
hundred names or fraction thereof,
signed thereto together with copy
thereof, the Supervisors of Elections
shall Immediately compare the origi-
nal copy and attach to such copy and
deliver to such person their official
certificate that such copy is a true
copy of the original, stating the day
when such original was filed in their
Office.
Whoever in making the sworn state
ment above prescribed shall knowing
ly, willfully and corruptly swear falls
ely shall be deemed guilty of perjury
and on conviction thereof shall be Ii
able to the punishment for perjury
prescribed by the Public General Laws
of this State. Whoever FORCES the sig
nature of anyperson upon any petition
or statement provided for in this Act
shall be deemed guilty of forgery, and
on conviction thereof shall be liable
to the punishment therefor provided
by the Public General Laws of this
State.
Section 3. And be 1t enacted, That
the Supervisors of Elections with
whom any petition shall be filed as
provided in this Act shall cause no
tice to be given in the manner nro-
v1ued by law for giving notice of an
election for the submission of said
proposition at the next election of the
voters of Carroll county. Publication
of the submission of said proposition
to the voters of said county shall like
wise 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 of Elections 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 proposition. !.
Section a. And be it enacted, That
the said Supervisors of Elections with
whom such petition shall be filed as
provided by this Act shall cause to be
placed on the official ballots to be
used in Carroll County in which said
proposition is to be submitted to the
vote of the people, in the manner pre-
scribed by Section Sc of Article SO of
the Code of Public General Laws of
1904, in substance as follows:
For License. .........
Against License. ........
and each voter shall indicate his pref
erence by x mark in the square op-
license" and the judges and clerks
of the election shall return the result
of the election on said proposition to
the Supervisors of Election with the
other returns.
Section 5. And be it enacted, That
the Supervisors of Elections shall as
soorl as conveniently may be after re-
ceiving and canvassing the result of
the election, proclaim the result
Of said election, and publish such
proclamation in some newspaper
published in the county, and shall rec
ord in well-bound book, to be kept
in their Office by them and their sue
cessors, the result of the vote upon
said proposition and such result may
be proved in all courts and In all pro-
ceedings by such record or by the Of
fetal certificate of the Supervisors of