The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-10-29
The Local 0pdonLa

At the election on November the
question For License" or Against
License" will be submitted to the vot-
ers. The provisions of the Act thus
to be passed upon are as follows;
CHAPTER 532.
AN ACT to enable the registered
qualified voters OF Cecil county to
determine by ballot whether spirit
Gus or fermented liquors or cider
shall be sold in said county.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland that
the question whether or not any per-
son or persons, house, company, asso-
citation or body corporate, as hcreinaf-
ter described, may be licensed in Cecil
county of this State by whom or in
which spirituous or fermented liquors,
Intoxicating drinks OF 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 regis
tered and qualified voters OF said
county, on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight and on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
every fourth year thereafter, at the
election then to be 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 be published i'll two news
papers OF said county with a copy OF
this Act, and also by printed handbills
containing said notice, and a conv OF
this act to be posted at the most pub
lice places within each election district
OF said county and the County Com
missioners OF said county shall pay for
the publishing of said notice and copy
OF this Act and Tor printing said hand
bills, and shall pay to said Sheriff for
said services the sum of twenty-five
dollars, but il for any reason said no.
tice shall not be given, or not given
in the manner herein prescribed, such
failure shall not affect the validity OF
this Act, or operate to prevent its tax
ing effect.
SEC. :. And lie it enacted, That the
ballots cast al said election to be
counted as deciding for or against the
sale OF spirituous or iermented liquors,
county shall have printed or written
against 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
& 10 \ / ,l,nI /.
certified by them, and the return Judges
said election shall cast up the whole
censc in said districts and shall make
a separate wrattt,. '.-,"-. d. aid
whole vote to the Clerk OF the Circuit
Court ior Cecil county. and said Clerk
shall record said returns among the
a certificate proclaming the result OF
said certificate to be published, within
been received by HIM. cucc in al the
newspapers published in said county.
SEC. 3. And lie ii cnac 3D. That ii
it shall appear by the returns o, said
judges and certificate oi said Clerk
that majority OF said votes have been
cast Against LiIcn,c' then the fol
lowing sections from section unl hun
dred and seventy nine to section one
hundred and cighty-nirc inclusive,
shall be in force in said county. and
stand in the place and stead of sec
tons one hundred and Seventy-nine to
one hundred and cighty-eight inclusive,
of Article 8 of the Code OF Public
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